Business Technology Architect

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Business Technology Architect to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

This role connects business strategy with technology capabilities, architecture, and investment priorities to support the organization's strategic objectives. They develop and maintain enterprise capability models, architecture frameworks, and strategic roadmaps that provide an integrated view of business processes, products, applications, data, platforms, and enabling technologies.

This role partners with business and technology leaders to identify capability gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for modernization, consolidation, reuse, and innovation. They provide strategic guidance for portfolio and technology investments, evaluate emerging technologies, and translate complex business and technology considerations into clear recommendations that enable informed decision-making

• Develop and maintain business and technology capability models, heat maps, dependency views, and other architecture artifacts that define capabilities, ownership, maturity, dependencies, and strategic importance to support decision-making.
• Map relationships among business capabilities, processes, products, applications, data, platforms, services, APIs, and enabling technologies.
• Develop current-state and target-state architecture views that connect business objectives with technology strategy and future-state capabilities.
• Identify capability gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for modernization, consolidation, integration, reuse, or retirement.
• Partner with Enterprise, Application, Data, and Solution Architecture teams to promote alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

• Translate business strategy and objectives into architecture priorities and actionable roadmaps that align business, product, application, data, platform, and technology initiatives.
• Analyze existing technology environments and recommend opportunities to improve scalability, efficiency, integration, security, and business value.
• Assess the business and technology implications of proposed changes and provide recommendations regarding sequencing, dependencies, and strategic trade-offs.

• Support product, application, and technology portfolio planning and rationalization using strategic value, adoption, technology health, cost, risk, security, and capability alignment.
• Evaluate alternatives and provide recommendations to invest, modernize, consolidate, replace, sustain, or retire technology capabilities and solutions.
• Partner with business, Product, and Finance stakeholders to assess total cost of ownership, return on investment, expected benefits, cost avoidance, risk reduction, and other measures of value.
• Identify duplication across applications, products, platforms, and capabilities and recommend opportunities for enterprise reuse and standardization.
• Establish traceability between strategic objectives, business capabilities, technology investments, and expected business outcomes.

• Identify opportunities to improve business capabilities through data, AI, automation, reusable services, APIs, and digital platforms.
• Partner with Data and AI leaders to align technology capabilities with data ownership, governance, quality, security, and AI readiness.
• Evaluate new technologies and architectural…