Director, Solution Enablement

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as the entry point for new ESD initiatives, partnering with key stakeholders to clarify objectives, assess feasibility, and identify dependencies. Ensure all initiatives are properly shaped before moving into design and delivery.
• Develop business architecture artifacts—capabilities, value streams, and process views—to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and solution architecture. Use these artifacts to define scope, identify reuse opportunities, and support roadmap decisions.
• Lead creation of clear, outcome‑focused business requirements and enablement materials such as problem statements, solution options, and process flows. Ensure deliverables are consumable, traceable, and appropriately detailed for initiative complexity.
• Collaborate across architecture, engineering, QA, and operations to produce early cost and timeline estimates that inform investment and sequencing. Ensure estimates are assumption‑based, refined iteratively, and transparently communicated.
• Partner with PMO and Business Operations to align initiative scope, cost, and timelines with program and portfolio roadmaps. Ensure consistency between business architecture, approved scope, delivery commitments, and dependency impacts.
• Own the Solution Enablement phase, ensuring initiatives meet Definition of Ready criteria before entering delivery. Prevent unready work from progressing by confirming scope clarity, aligned estimates, and identified risks.
• Provide high‑quality handoffs that include business context, architectural alignment, success measures, and confirmed assumptions. Enable early collaboration while transitioning ownership smoothly to delivery teams.
• Define and maintain standards, templates, and playbooks for Solution Enablement and Business Architecture. Ensure consistent practices across ESD and promote reuse to improve speed and quality.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by clearly communicating risks, trade‑offs, and readiness. Support executive decisions with fact‑based, transparent enablement outputs.
• Lead and develop the Solution Enablement team, strengthening capabilities in business architecture, analysis, estimation, and scope definition. Foster an outcome‑driven mindset that avoids solution bias.

• Solution intake, discovery, and enablement.
• Business Architecture and capability mapping.
• Business requirements and scope definition.
• Cost and delivery timeline estimation (collaborative).
• Program level alignment with PMO and Business Operations.

• Portfolio Intake & Solution Discovery:
  Serve as the front door for new initiatives entering Engineering Services and Delivery.
• Partner with Business, Product, Solution Architecture and Enterprise PMO to clarify business objectives, outcomes, and success metrics; assess feasibility, dependencies, and cross‑portfolio impacts.
• Business Architecture Development:
  Own development of Business Architecture artifacts, including business capability maps, value streams, business processes, current state and target state views. Ensure solution initiatives are aligned to enterprise capabilities and strategic priorities; collaborate closely with Solution Architecture to align business, application, data, and technology perspectives.
• Business Requirements & Enablement Artifacts:
  Lead creation of problem statements and value hypotheses, high‑level solution scope and options, process flows and feature decomposition, key assumptions, risks, and constraints. Ensure requirements are outcome‑focused and traceable, clear and consumable by Systems Analysis & Engineering teams, and correctly sized for initiative complexity.
• Cost & Delivery Timeline Estimation (Collaborative):
  Facilitate early estimation activities with Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Production Operations to define high‑level effort and delivery timelines; assess delivery complexity, risks, and dependencies; and ensure cost and timeline estimates are based on agreed assumptions and scope, iteratively refined, and transparently communicated.
• Program Scope, Cost & Timeline Alignment:
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