Business Architect

Employment Type

Full‑time

Exempt

Hybrid Work Environment - Must reside in Hawaii**

The Business Architecture function delivers a blueprint that connects business strategy to corporate initiatives and operational transformation in a manner that is actionable, traceable and transparent to the organization.

The Business Architect assumes a key role in the enterprise by modeling its organizational structure, value streams, operational processes, information, and technology. In close collaboration with business and IT stakeholders, the Business Architect delivers the blueprint that aligns the enterprise strategy with operational initiatives and charts the roadmap and timeline for future business and technology transformation. Business Architecture is an important component of HMSA's overall IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) function and will require the Business Architect to foster close working relationships and alignment with the EA department.

The Business Architect manages the relationship with business stakeholders who need to transform their operational processes and performance by leveraging modern technology and data solutions. The ideal candidate must be an effective facilitator with the ability to understand and communicate both business and technical concepts to audiences at all levels of the organization.

$68,000 - $133,000

Individuals typically begin between the minimum to middle of the pay range

• Understand their business stakeholders' strategies, goals and priorities.
• Assess the business operations target vs. actual performance metrics.
• Document the business operations current technology architecture.
• Facilitate and lead modeling of the operations business architecture.
• Facilitate the identification and prioritization of business process transformation opportunities.
• Engage IT enterprise, application and data architects in defining business technology solutions.

• Bachelor's degree and four years of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation and facilitation skills with all levels of the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills in a business and technology environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Intermediate program and project management skills.
• Intermediate business analysis and process mapping skills.
• Intermediate process improvement and performance improvement skills.
• Intermediate organizational change management skills.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams.
• Training and certification in Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture from a leading organization such as The Open Group (TOGAF), Business Architecture Guild, Business Architecture Center of Excellence, etc. In lieu of prior certification, candidates must complete TOGAF Business Architecture certification within the first year of employment in this position.
• Training and certification in Lean Six Sigma or similar process optimization framework and methodology. In lieu of prior certification, candidates must complete Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from the Council for Six Sigma Certification (CSSC) within the second year of employment in this position.

• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Identifies potential opportunities for business architecture modeling within the organization.
  • Engages stakeholders to assess the business value of proposed business architecture requests to prioritize them amongst other initiatives already in progress or in queue.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders to identify the business owner, project manager and business and IT subject‑matter experts (SMEs) for the business architecture modeling project.
  • Facilitates the project kick‑off meeting to introduce the project team to the objectives, scope, and timeline for completing business architecture modeling activities.
• Business Architecture Modeling:
  Performs business modeling as an iterative process that relies heavily on the input from business and IT SMEs. The Business Architect must solicit feedback and be flexible in modifying the models as new information is introduced.
  • Performs strategy mapping that links business strategy to business operations goals, value streams and business capabilities and defines objective measures and target metrics at each level of the mapping.
  • Defines value streams that identify how value is generated for external and internal customers and that contribute to attaining the business operations' primary goals.
  • Performs business capability mapping to identify what a business does to create value for its customers and decomposes each capability into the next lower level of detail until operational business processes are identified.
• Business Capability Assessment:
  Assesses current business…