Enterprise Business Architect

Job Description

Job Description

J ob Title :  Enterprise Business Architect

Location :  Remote

Hire Type :  Contingent 

Target  Hourly Rate : $95 .00/ hour

Work Model :  Remote (with travel to Buffalo, NY every 4-6 weeks)

Contact Email :  View email address on ziprecruiter.com

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 S uccess

• 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