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Lead Business Architect

Job Title
Lead Business Architect
Job ID
27653189
Location
Washington,  DC 20024
Other Location
Reston, VA
Description
WHO YOU ARE

You are an experienced business architect, strategist, and/or analyst. You are confident, articulate, insightful, creative, and collaborative. You are a leader, a partner, and an influencer. Preferably, you either have or are planning to obtain your Certified Business Architect (CBA)® designation. 

WHAT YOU’LL  DO

As a Lead Business Architect, you’ll apply your analytical, communications, and creative skills to help stakeholders understand their business, diagnose their pain points, identify opportunities, and visualize their future business operations. You’ll partner with business leaders, product teams, and enterprise architects to ensure that transformation initiatives are driven by business needs, priorities, and vision. You’ll use elements of the Business Architecture Guild’s BIZBOK framework – business capability, ecosystem, and value stream models; strategy and information maps – along with operational scenarios and business process models to “tell stories”, “paint pictures”, and leverage data to inform / influence business strategy and investment decisions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Architecture Development – Lead preparation of business architecture artifacts depicting current, target, and interim states of business operations. Use current state artifacts to identify and analyze pain points and opportunities. Ensure alignment with strategies / objectives and across architecture domains. Oversee the publishing and maintenance of business architecture work products in the architecture repository, ensuring that they are organized, accurate, and accessible.

Portfolio Planning – Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps. Assess new / proposed projects for business architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture.

Governance – Lead peer reviews and represent business architecture in briefings to the Architecture Review Board. Represent business architecture in the drafting of RFIs/RFPs and in the evaluation / scoring of vendor proposals.

Practice Development – Lead the extension and enhancement of business architecture approaches, methods, templates, and engagement models. Research emerging business architecture trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization. Ensure the alignment / integration of business architecture processes / deliverables with those of other architecture domains and SDLC disciplines. Lead development of business architecture communications / education materiel for use with stakeholders and architecture / SDLC partners.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8-11 years of experience in business architecture, business transformation, and/or related disciplines.
• Business Architecture certification (Business Architecture Guild or similar) [Preferred, not required].
• Experience using architecture modeling tools (Orbus iServer or similar) [Preferred, not required].

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high-quality solutions.
• Ability to coach, delegate, and develop architects and engineers.
• Ability to manage cross-domain architecture solutions and issues.
• Expertise with domain-related architecture frameworks, methods, and tools.
• Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal), and collaboration.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.  EEO IS THE LAW CC Pace invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan.  This plan is available for inspection upon request. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.

 

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