Business Architect​/Analyst

Position: Business Architect / Analyst
Who we are

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X is focused on Digital Transformation and Product Engineering Services, enabling clients achieve their business, operating and technology needs for the digital age. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients implement digital transformation initiatives. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, U.S. Connected

X is a preferred partner for leading Fortune 1000 enterprises and is consistently admired by the clients and employees across the globe.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for a passionate and highly motivated Business Architect for a Fortune 100 client. This is a long-term role in Plano, TX.

Position :
Business Architect

Location :
Plano, TX

Duration :
Long term

What you will bring

• Holistic thinker with the ability to examine vast business ecosystems and deliver value across the strategy execution spectrum
• Ability to abstract and synthesize information
• Ability to collaborate across teams
• Deep understanding of how to use and apply business capability maps
• Experience using a business architecture tool, such as Bizzdesign, Sparx, Ardoq, etc.
• Familiarity with A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge® (BIZBOK Guide)®
• Experience utilizing and adapting the Business Architecture Guild reference models
• Soft skills which include the following:
  Creative/ innovative, persuasive, commands respect, thinks "big picture" and strategically, has a strong grasp of technology
• Knowledge of building and gaining support for capability-based roadmaps
• Experience with Service Now and Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a plus
• Experience with defining metrics for applications to include technical and business fit and with heat mapping capabilities based on the results of the technical and business fit of the applications which are mapped to them
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, with both technical and business audiences

What you will do:

• Meet with and interview application experts to map business capabilities to Client applications (initial focus)
• Perform Business Architecture modeling, including capability hierarchy and capability maps, information maps, value streams, and application-to-business capability mapping, matrices, and dashboards using Toyota's Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio tool
• Collaborate with Business Owners, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Application Architects, Process Architects, and Data Architects to establish and validate capability mapping
• Aggregate complex views, simplify them for a given audience, and deliver essential insights required to address business challenges
• Take an active role in enterprise portfolio investment strategies by assessing and rationalizing proposed enterprise capabilities
• Identify business capability overlap in existing and new applications and categorize and classify capabilities and information without redundancies so this overlap can be readily identified
• Perform administrative tasks for Bizzdesign, such as adding users to SailPoint for Single-Sign-On purposes and managing models within Bizzdesign, such as promoting project work to the enterprise catalog

What we'll bring

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.
• Excellent compensation
• Quick immigration benefits
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
• 401(K)
• Paid holidays and paid time off