Enterprise Business Architect
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| Hours | Full-time |
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| Location | Buffalo, New York |
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Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Enterprise Business Architect
Location: Remote
Hire Type: Contingent
Target Hourly Rate: $100.00/hour
Work Model: Remote (with travel to Buffalo, NY every 4-6 weeks)
Contact Email: bfesmire@imaginestaffing.net
No C2C, C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfer available
Nature & Scope:
Positional Overview
We are seeking a visionary Business Architect to serve as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value.
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)
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.
Role & Responsibility:
Tasks That Will Lead To Your Success
- Strategy Alignment - Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps. Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcome
- Business Architecture Modeling - Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models. Define current-state and target-state business architectures [linkedin.com]
- 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. Ensuring business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions.
Skills that will Lead To Your Success
- 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)
- 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
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or related field (Master’s 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications: TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AI/ML specialty certifications.
- Practical experience with model risk governance (SR 117), OCC guidance, and related financial services regulatory frameworks.
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