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 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.

• Primary Focus Areas:
• 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.
  • Ensure initiatives are appropriately shaped before proceeding to design and delivery.
• Business Architecture Development:
• Own development of Business Architecture artifacts, including:
  • Business capability maps.
  • Value streams and 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.
• Use Business Architecture to:
  • Define scope boundaries.
  • Identify reuse and consolidation opportunities.
  • Support roadmap planning decisions.
• Business Requirements & Enablement Artifacts:
• Lead creation of business‑level enablement artifacts, including:
  • 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 the right size for initiative complexity.
• Cost & Delivery Timeline Estimation (Collaborative):
• Collaborate with Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Production Operations.
• Facilitate early estimation activities to:
  • Define high‑level effort and delivery…