Business Architect

Are you ready to join a growing team?

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…