Business Architect (Enterprise)
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Location: Buffalo, NY - 14203 (Open for Remote, Mandatory Travel Required)
Title: Business Architect (Enterprise)
Salary Range: $80-90/hr
Contract: Buffalo, New York, US
End Date: 2026-09-25
Days Left: 27 days, 8 hours left
Job Summary
The Business Architect defines and evolves the enterprise’s business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution. This role establishes clarity on:
- What the business is trying to achieve (strategy and outcomes)
- How value is delivered (value streams)
- What the business must be able to do (capabilities)
The Business Architect serves as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value.
Responsibilities
Strategy Alignment
- Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps
- Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcomes
Business Architecture Modeling
- Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models
- Define current-state and target-state business architectures
Transformation & Investment Guidance
- Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value
- Support portfolio planning and initiative prioritization
Enterprise Analysis & Design
- Assess business processes, structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency
- Define business-driven requirements for transformation efforts
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with executives, product teams, EA, and delivery teams
- Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders
Governance & Standards
- Establish and enforce business architecture standards and frameworks
- Ensure traceability from strategy through execution
Cross-Architecture Alignment
- Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align designs
- Ensure business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions.
Requirements
Expected Skills
- Strategic thinking and business model design
- Capability modeling and value stream mapping
- Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
- Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
- Problem-solving and structured decision-making
- Financial and investment analysis (business case, prioritization)
- Influence without authority across complex organizations
- Visualization and modeling (e.g., capability maps, operating models)
Expected Knowledge
- Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
- Capabilities, value streams, organization, information mapping
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, FEAPO-aligned definitions)
- Operating model design and business transformation methods
- Financial services industry structure, regulations, and risk considerations
- Portfolio management and investment prioritization
- SDLC and technology delivery lifecycle alignment
- Data, process, and organizational design principles
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business, Technology, or related field (Masters preferred)
- 10+ years experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, or transformation roles
- Demonstrated experience building business architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models)
- Experience working in large, complex enterprises (financial services preferred)
Certifications (preferred, not required)
- Certified Business Architect (CBA®) – Business Architecture Guild
- TOGAF or equivalent EA certification
We Offer
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Paid parking/public transportation
- Paid time off
- Paid sick and safe time
- Hours of paid vacation time
- Weeks of paid parental leave
- Paid holidays annually – as applicable
About the Company
This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong business/technology translation expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving innovation in the financial sector.
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