Business Architect

What will you be responsible for?

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute fully as a hands-on Business Architect and be able to leverage your knowledge in defining and helping to bridge the gap between business and technology

• Evaluate the impact of key investments on the business capabilities of the organization through key views that describe the organization
• Steward business ideas and investments through the planning phases of the idea and evaluate the strategic importance, priority and impact of the investment
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise from the perspectives of the customer, shipper and business management.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, shippers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
• Capture the relationships among value streams, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.
• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.

Other Responsibilities

• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Accountable for a specific LOB, business pillar or multiple segments, and high level of complexity and attributes
• Recognized as top level expert with significant in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in their in a complex field and knowledge of broader related areas
• Senior specialist providing advisory services to executives, business leaders and governs the requirements for own work
• Integrates knowledge of the enterprise function’s or business segment’s overarching strategy in leading programs and projects within one or more areas of expertise
• Engages stakeholders to take action; Serves as a source of expert advice, influences change; frames information in a broader organizational context
• Provides leadership guidance, makes recommendations and collaborates with business to ensure solutions meets the business needs on a complex project or program
• Identifies and leads problem resolution for project/program complex requirements related issues at all levels

What skills you need for this role to be yours?

• 10+ years of experience in client management  and leading a business sub domain.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, ability to influence
• Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships as well as managing and resolving conflict
• Experience working with complex and cross-functional IT projects
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• 7+ years Agile IT experience
• Strategy, Roadmap, and Planning skills
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities

Additional Skills that set you apart?

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• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Digital enterprise transformation
• Business knowledge and experience in Supply Chain, Mobile, Martech, and Cloud technologies
• Has practiced Customer-centric design frameworks such as Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Journey Mapping

Education

• Academic : university degree in business or information systems or equivalent experience or combination thereof (required),
• Graduate degree in Business Administration (MBA)(Asset)
• Certifications: Certified business analysis professional (CBAP) (Asset), BABOK (Asset), ITIL foundations (Asset), Project
• Management Professional (PMP), TOGAF certification (Asset)