Senior Business Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Senior: Senior Business Architect

Location: Remote

Medicaid / MMIS Experience/healthcare experience

Position Overview

The Senior Product Owner / Business Architect will provide strategic product ownership, business architecture, and functional leadership for a complex enterprise modernization initiative involving Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related Microsoft technologies. This role will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, Product Management, technology teams, enterprise and solution architects, developers, quality assurance teams, operations, and implementation partners. The position will be responsible for translating business strategy, operating model objectives, organizational capabilities, and stakeholder requirements into executable product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, future-state business processes, functional solution requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable business outcomes. The Senior Product Owner / Business Architect will support the evolution of client product management practices by aligning product strategy with execution, establishing strong backlog and product governance practices, and ensuring that Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions effectively support business operations, modernization priorities, integration requirements, compliance expectations, and long-term organizational goals. The ideal candidate will combine strong Product Ownership, business-process architecture, Microsoft Dynamics 365 knowledge, Agile delivery experience, stakeholder leadership, and enterprise transformation expertise within complex public-sector or highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Support product vision, scope, roadmap, and delivery across enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment with business priorities, program objectives, and modernization goals.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, stakeholder needs, dependencies, delivery priorities, and available resources
• Translate business needs and capabilities into clear epics, features, user stories, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate backlog refinement and requirements discussions to clarify scope, priorities, dependencies, assumptions, and expected business outcomes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Product Management, IT, operations, development, testing, and other delivery teams to maintain alignment throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support current-state and future-state process analysis, operating model improvements, requirements traceability, and alignment of business capabilities with product and technology roadmaps.
• Participate in Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, demonstrations, release planning, UAT, and business validation activities.
• Maintain appropriate product governance and stakeholder communication by tracking requirements, changes, risks, dependencies, priorities, decisions, and delivery progress across related workstreams and business areas.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience serving as a Product Owner supporting complex, multi-domain enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience driving product vision and delivery with measurable business outcomes.
• Proven ability to align product strategy with execution through backlog management, prioritization, and translation of business capabilities into actionable features and user stories.
• Strong experience defining and managing product scope, workflows, business requirements, and value delivery aligned with modernization objectives.
• Experience supporting operating model evolution through process definition, workflow improvement, and alignment of business capabilities with product delivery.
• Strong experience collaborating with business stakeholders, Product Management, IT, operations, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Experience establishing and following product governance practices, including backlog traceability, acceptance criteria, requirements management, and alignment with program goals and compliance requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining epics, features, user stories, business requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience supporting Agile or Scrum delivery environments, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and release planning.
• Experience with backlog and requirements management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and the relationship between requirements, development, testing, deployment, and business acceptance.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing and validating delivered functionality against defined requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation, communication, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with business, Product Management, technical, operational, and leadership stakeholders.

Other Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-module enterprise rollouts and operating model alignment.
• Experience aligning enterprise capabilities with product and technology roadmaps, implementation sequencing, and funding models.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization, transformation, or enterprise application initiatives.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, or comparable enterprise business platforms.
• Experience working in public-sector or government implementation environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Azure DevOps, Jira, or comparable product delivery practices and tools.
• Relevant Product Owner or Agile certifications such as CSPO, PSPO, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or equivalent are preferred.