Enterprise Architect

Business Architect (Enterprise)

Location: Buffalo, NY - 14203 (Open for Remote, Mandatory Travel Required)

Pay range: $80-90/hr

This posting is for a Business Architect role. We're searching for someone with exceptional communication skills and tangible/tactical experience as a business architect. Experience with BIZBOK and/or BIAN preferred. Fully remote but must be willing to travel to Buffalo every 4-6 weeks.

Job Summary

The Business Architect defines and evolves the enterprise's business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution.

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)
• The Business Architect serves as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value

Key Responsibilities

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

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
• Ensure business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions.

Expected Skills

• 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)

Expected Knowledge

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business, Technology, or related field (Masters preferred)
• 10+ years experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, or transformation roles
• Demonstrated experience building business architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models)
• Experience working in large, complex enterprises (financial services preferred)

Expected Deliverables

• Business capability maps (L1–L3) with ownership and maturity assessment
• Value stream maps tied to customer journeys and outcomes
• Current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Business architecture roadmaps aligned to strategy and investment plans
• Capability heatmaps and gap analyses
• Business-driven input into enterprise roadmaps and portfolio decisions
• Executive-ready models and strategy artifacts
• Traceability from strategy → capabilities → initiatives → outcomes

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.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable.