Principal Business Architect

## Principal Business Architect Apply locations:
San Antonio, Texas:
Houston, Texas:
Findlay, Ohiotime type:
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August 1, 2026 (14 days left to apply) job requisition :
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** An exciting career awaits you
** At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.# Position Summary The Business Architect will be tasked with connecting business strategy, operating models, process design, and technology execution. The role is responsible for defining and optimizing business capabilities, value streams, processes, and architecture roadmaps so that transformation initiatives are scalable, future-ready, and aligned to enterprise priorities.#

Key Responsibilities
* Set and drive the enterprise-wide business architecture vision and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and digital transformation goals.
* Lead the integration of Business architecture with Enterprise, System, Solution, and Data architecture, enabling end-to-end business agility within and across value streams.
* Serve as the lead business architecture advisor to executive leadership, influencing investment decisions, transformation priorities, and organizational design.
* Architect and oversee large-scale business transformation programs or operating model evaluations/redesigns, ensuring business outcomes are achieved.
* Build and lead communities of practice for business architects and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
* Align business strategy, operating models, processes, data, and technology solutions to create scalable and future-ready business capabilities.#

Education and Experience
* Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
* Ten (10) or more years of relevant IT experience and/or business domain experience, including five (5) or more years of relevant business architecture experience required.
* Digital Transformation experience preferred.
* Experience building capability maps, customer journeys, value streams, and designing target operating models preferred.
* Experience leading elements of large transformation projects including facilitation of multi-stakeholder (process design, capability mapping, executive alignment) workshops, influencing without authority, and driving cross-functional decisions preferred.
* Experience establishing business architecture as a discipline preferred.
* Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred.
* Consulting experience preferred.
* Certified Business Architect preferred.
* MBA preferred.# Skills
* ** Adaptability
- ** Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
* ** AI Fundamentals
- ** Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
* ** Change Management
- ** Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
* ** Authentic Communicator** - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
* ** Business Operator Acumen** - Applies deep understanding of operational realities to design processes that are both strategically aligned and practically executable.
* ** Business Process Analytics** - Utilizes data-driven insights to evaluate process performance, identify inefficiencies, and guide continuous improvement initiatives.
* ** Business Process Governance** - Establishes and enforces frameworks that ensure process consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
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