Business Architect

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CTG is seeking an experienced Business Architect to help shape and evolve enterprise business architecture for a leading financial services organization. This strategic role serves as the critical bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, ensuring alignment across capabilities, value streams, operating models, and transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in business architecture, capability modeling, value stream mapping, and enterprise transformation, along with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic decision-making across complex organizations.

Location: Buffalo, NY (Preferred) / Remote (Travel to Buffalo, NY every 4-6 weeks with Monday through Thursday in-office; travel expenses reimbursed)

Duration: 6 months

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into business capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps.

• Develop and maintain business architecture artifacts including capability maps, value streams, and operating models.

• Define current-state and target-state business architecture models.

• Identify capability gaps and recommend investment priorities based on business value.

• Support portfolio planning, business case development, and initiative prioritization.

• Assess business processes, organizational structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency.

• Partner with executive leadership, product teams, enterprise architects, and delivery teams.

• Establish business architecture standards, governance practices, and frameworks.

• Ensure traceability from strategic objectives through execution and measurable outcomes.

• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align business and technology strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, enterprise transformation, or related disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience creating:

• Business capability maps

• Value stream models

• Operating models

• Strategic roadmaps

• Gap analyses and capability assessments

• Strong knowledge of:

• Business architecture methodologies

• Capability modeling

• Value stream mapping

• Operating model design

• Enterprise analysis

• Portfolio management and investment prioritization

• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business, Technology, or a related field.

• Financial services or banking industry experience.

• Knowledge of Business Architecture Guild (BIZBOK®) methodologies and practices.

• Familiarity with TOGAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks.

• Certified Business Architect (CBA®) certification.

• TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture credential.

Desired Skills

• Strategic thinking and business model design

• Systems thinking and enterprise analysis

• Executive communication and stakeholder engagement

• Business transformation leadership

• Structured problem-solving and decision-making

• Financial analysis and business case development

• Influence without authority

• Visualization and business architecture modeling

Deliverables

• Business capability maps (L1-L3)

• Value stream maps aligned to customer outcomes

• Current-state and target-state architecture models

• Business architecture roadmaps

• Capability heatmaps and gap analyses

• Executive-ready strategy and architecture artifacts

• Business-driven portfolio and investment recommendations

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee based recruitment services for this role.

To Apply:

To be considered, please apply directly to this requisition using the link provided. Kindly forward this to any other interested parties. Thank you!

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $51.67 to $86.11 per hour. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, market factors, and where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. In addition to salary, a competitive benefit package is also offered.

About CTG

CTG, a Cegeka company, delivers IT and business solutions that enhance clients’ digital agility, empowering them to seize new opportunities and overcome any challenge. Backed by more than 60 years’ experience and a commitment to being a reliable, results-driven partner, we work shoulder to shoulder with clients to shape digital together. Our vision is to be an indispensable partner to our clients and the preferred career destination for digital and technology experts. With more than 9,000 team members in over 15 countries, we combine global expertise with local insight to deliver innovative solutions. We operate across the Americas, Europe, and India, working with over 3,000 clients in many of today's highest-growth industries.

Together, we shape what’s next—working shoulder to shoulder to deliver impactful solutions for our clients and society. Our culture is built by the people who work at CTG, the values we hold, and the actions we take. It's a living, breathing thing that is renewed every day through the ways we engage with each other, our clients, and our communities. At CTG, you’ll find a workplace where you are encouraged to grow, supported in your ambitions, and empowered to shape your own career journey. For more information, visit .

CTG will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable local, state, and federal laws.

CTG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CTG will assure equal opportunity and consideration to all applicants and employees in recruitment, selection, placement, training, benefits, compensation, promotion, transfer, and release of individuals without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, age, disability, marital or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other discriminatory factors as required by law. CTG is fully committed to promoting employment opportunities for members of protected classes.