Business Architect

Posting Details

Position Information


Posting Number
S06781P


Position Title
Business Architect


Department
OIT Enterprise PMO


Location
Arlington


Position Status
Full-time


Work Schedule


Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

• With an understanding of the 24/7 nature of IT

Salary
Salary is commensurate based on qualifications and relevant experience.


Pay Basis
Monthly


Job Summary


The Business Architect will guide leaders through transformation and optimization initiatives to shape organizational strategy, operating models, and capabilities, ensuring alignment between the business and IT. Uses structured methodologies and modeling techniques to clarify strategic intent, define business outcomes, and prioritize investments in people, processes, and technology. Supports the evolution of Enterprise Architecture (EA) services and helps define EA function strategy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Translates the organization strategy into actionable architecture deliverables (e.g., capability maps, value streams, operating models).
• Assess disruptive and emerging technologies, and competitive threats or opportunities to inform scenario planning and innovation.
• Develop and maintain business capability models and value chains aligned with enterprise goals.
• Create business architecture deliverables that clarify strategic intentions, identify business outcomes, explore implications, impacts and risks.
• Engages key business stakeholders to identify the organization and technology innovation opportunities that enable and drive the organization's strategy.
• Focuses on growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks.
• Works with the organization and IT executives to help describe and understand their business and operating models by making the business model clear and explicit.
• Helps the organization's leaders and executives, with design thinking, business modeling, ecosystem modeling, innovation management, IT investment analysis, and operating model design.
• Develops diagnostic and consumable deliverables such as business and operating models to inform cost-risk-value-strategic alignment assessment of innovation use cases.
• Seeks ways to drive adoption of new technology and reuse existing technology for enabling business capabilities, value streams and business processes.
• Research and provides information on emerging technology trends and disruptions and competitors' practices.
• Facilitates the development of cross department solutions that combine knowledge of business capabilities, value streams, and business processes.
• Advises solution architects on solution options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business capabilities and processes.
• Collaborates with project and operational delivery teams - in coordination with solution and technical architects - to ensure continuous business architecture informs technology decisions.
• Participates in development and application of guiding principles, standards and minimal viable architectures through the Enterprise Architecture model.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems, computer science, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in strategy formulation and/or translation, business analysis/analytics, or business architecture, or nine (9) years of any combination of education, experience, and training.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in information systems, computer science, system analysis, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in both business technology and technology architecture solutions which includes IT products, services, and capabilities.
• Experience in a higher education environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models.
• Ability to evaluate the value and risk of existing, new, and emerging technologies against new business models to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business capabilities, value streams, business processes, and organizational structures.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture function tools to develop business architecture deliverables.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to influence and build consensus among various technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of stakeholder trust and confidence using the language of the business and facilitate roductive discussions among groups of stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to new circumstances and changing business environments.

Other Requirements

Workplace and Eligibility Conditions

• Use of standard office equipment, personal computer, and Microsoft office.
• General office conditions.

Benefits Eligible
Yes


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CBC Requirement


It is the policy of The University of Texas at Arlington to conduct a criminal background check on any applicant who is under final consideration for employment with the University.

This position may have access to critical infrastructure as defined by Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code. If so, to be hired for and continue to be employed in this position you must maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure as set forth in Texas Executive Order GA-48. By assuming this position, and if you have access to critical infrastructure , you authorize the University to conduct routine background checks.

EEO Statement


It is the policy of The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or The University) to provide an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. In accordance with federal and state law, the University prohibits unlawful discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, and/or veteran status. The University also prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity, and gender expression. Retaliation against persons who oppose a discriminatory practice, file a charge of discrimination, or testify for, assist in, or participate in an investigative proceeding relating to discrimination is prohibited. Constitutionally-protected expression will not be considered discrimination or harassment under this policy. It is the responsibility of all departments, employees, and students to ensure the University's compliance with this policy.

University Information


The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex, a vibrant and diverse metropolitan area that is home to over 7 million people, one of the fastest-growing tech economies in the United States, and a wide array of arts, entertainment, and cultural activities. As a comprehensive teaching, research, and public service institution, UTA is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through scholarship and creative work. With an enrollment of more than 42,000 students, UTA is the second largest in the University of Texas System. As a result of its combination of rigorous academics and innovative research, UTA is designated as a Carnegie R-1 "Very High Research Activity" institution and nationally recognized for its commitment to student success and service. It ranks No. 5 in Military Times' "Best for Vets: Colleges" and is the top university in North Texas for its graduates' salaries (The Wall Street Journal). UTA is designated as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and is No. 6 for undergraduate ethnic diversity in the United States (U.S. News & World Report, 2023). With a global alumni network of approximately 280,000 - including leaders at many of the 24 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in North Texas - UTA contributes an estimated $29 billion annually to the Texas economy.

UTA is expanding its regional footprint by building a regional campus, called UTA West, in Parker County on the far west side of Fort Worth. It is scheduled to open in fall 2028. This initiative aligns with the university's strategic growth and commitment to serving the broader community. Furthermore, UTA has launched the RISE 100 initiative, aiming to recruit 100 new tenure-system faculty to strengthen its research enterprise and leadership in key academic areas. Learn more at .

This is an exciting time to join UTA and contribute to its bold vision for the future.

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Posting Detail Information


Number of Vacancies
1


Open Until Filled

Minimum Number of References Required
3


Maximum Number of References Accepted
3


Special Instructions to Applicants


Applicants must include in their online resume the following information: 1) Employment history: name of company, period employed (from month/year to month/year), job title, summary of job duties and 2) Education: school name, degree type, and major.