Business Architect

Business Architect

CTG is seeking to fill a Business Architect opening for our client.

Location:

Buffalo, NY (Preferred) / Remote. Candidates must be willing to travel to Buffalo, NY every 4-6 weeks and work onsite Monday through Thursday during those visits. Eastern or Central time zone preferred. Duration: 6 months, with potential for contract-to-hire based on performance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the enterprise business architecture to align business strategy, operating models, and execution.
• Translate business strategy into capability models, value streams, target-state architectures, and initiative roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value stream maps, operating models, and other business architecture artifacts.
• Define current-state and target-state business architectures and identify gaps between them.
• Identify capability gaps and provide recommendations for prioritizing investments based on business value.
• Support portfolio planning, initiative prioritization, and business case development.
• Analyze business processes, organizational structures, and supporting systems to identify opportunities for improvement and transformation.
• Define business-driven requirements for strategic transformation initiatives.
• Partner with executives, product teams, Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, and delivery teams.
• Facilitate alignment and decision-making across business and technology stakeholders.
• Establish and promote business architecture standards, practices, and governance.
• Ensure traceability from business strategy through capabilities, initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to ensure business intent is reflected in technology and solution decisions.
• Produce executive-ready models, presentations, roadmaps, and strategic artifacts.

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Develop L1-L3 business capability maps, including ownership and maturity assessments.
• Create value stream maps connected to customer journeys and desired business outcomes.
• Develop current-state and target-state business architecture views.
• Create business architecture roadmaps aligned with strategic objectives and investment plans.
• Conduct capability heatmaps, gap analyses, and business impact assessments.
• Provide business architecture input into enterprise roadmaps and portfolio decisions.
• Establish traceability from strategy to capabilities, initiatives, and outcomes.
• Apply business architecture frameworks and best practices, including BIZBOK and/or BIAN where applicable.
• Support business transformation and operating model design across complex enterprise environments.
• Provide clear, actionable recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

• This position does not have direct supervisory responsibility.
• Influence and facilitate decision-making across cross-functional teams and complex organizational structures.
• Lead workshops and working sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to project, product, architecture, and delivery teams.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise strategy, business transformation, management consulting, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing business architecture artifacts, including capability maps, value streams, operating models, and current/target-state models.
• Strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, and enterprise analysis skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating with executive-level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to facilitate alignment and influence decisions across business and technology organizations without direct authority.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong problem-solving, structured decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience translating business strategy into actionable architecture and transformation roadmaps.
• Ability to work remotely while traveling to Buffalo, NY every 4-6 weeks for onsite collaboration.

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Master's degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with in the financial services or banking industry.
• Practical experience with BIZBOK (Business Architecture Guild) and/or BIAN frameworks.
• Certified Business Architect (CBA®) certification.
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
• Knowledge of capabilities, value streams, organizational mapping, and information mapping.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and operating model design.
• Knowledge of financial services industry structures, regulations, and risk considerations.
• Experience with portfolio management, investment prioritization, and business case…