Enterprise Architect

Travel:

Expected to travel to Buffalo, NY every 4–6 weeks, Monday through Thursday, with travel expenses paid

The Business Architect defines and evolves the enterprise’s business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution.

This role establishes clarity on:

• What the business is trying to achieve (strategy and outcomes)
• How value is delivered (value streams)
• What the business must be able to do (capabilities)

The Business Architect serves as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value.

• Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps
• Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcomes

• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models
• Define current-state and target-state business architectures

• Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value
• Support portfolio planning and initiative prioritization

• Assess business processes, structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency
• Define business-driven requirements for transformation efforts

• Partner with executives, product teams, Enterprise Architecture, and delivery teams
• Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders

• Establish and enforce business architecture standards and frameworks
• Ensure traceability from strategy through execution
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align designs
• Ensure business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions

• Strategic thinking and business model design
• Capability modeling and value stream mapping
• Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
• Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
• Problem-solving and structured decision-making
• Financial and investment analysis, including business cases and prioritization
• Ability to influence without authority across complex organizations
• Visualization and modeling, including capability maps and operating models

• Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
• Capabilities, value streams, organization, and information mapping
• Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• Operating model design and business transformation methods
• Financial services industry structure, regulations, and risk considerations
• Portfolio management and investment prioritization
• SDLC and technology delivery lifecycle alignment
• Data, process, and organizational design principles

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or related field;
  Master’s preferred
• 10+ years of experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, or transformation roles
• Demonstrated experience building business architecture artifacts, including capability maps, value streams, and operating models
• Experience working in large, complex enterprises; financial services experience preferred
• Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture certifications preferred but not required

• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification
• Business capability maps (L1–L3) with ownership and maturity assessments
• Value stream maps tied to customer journeys and outcomes
• Current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Business architecture roadmaps aligned to strategy and investment plans
• Capability heatmaps and gap analyses
• Business-driven input into enterprise roadmaps and portfolio decisions
• Executive-ready models and strategy artifacts

This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong business/technology translation expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving business transformation within a complex enterprise environment.