Business/Enterprise Architect – Aptio

The way our customer described it is more of a ‘take things off Scott’s EA/SA plate’ as he is driving the Aptio initiative.     

Search for: value stream, business process mapping, etc.

Here are a couple blurbs from ideal candidates:

1. “Led value stream mapping, process analysis, and process transformation initiatives globally across the IT organization. Identified projects and events to directly support lean transformation objectives. Facilitated and coached projects that supported the Enterprise IT value streams, with a focus on lean transformation and daily performance management deployment across the IT organization.”
2. “Build and maintain Enterprise Process Management (EPM) practices, methods and knowledgebase to inform decision-making, drive efficiency, align business and technology to produce effective solutions to time and budget. Facilitate the alignment of Enterprise Process Management (EPM) with Business Architecture practices to enable effective strategy execution and design for the organization and overall ecosystem

► Provided leaders and stakeholders with clarity and business transparency needed for decision-making through the discovery, depiction, analysis and maintenance of their end-to-end processes

► Led alignment between business and technology partners on programs and business transformation initiatives with process designs to ensure solutions were built to expectations

► Drove enterprise process management (EPM) best practices thought leadership and maturity with specific focus on how aligning with other disciplines like Business Architecture can help close the gap between strategy and execution”

• A Business Architect has not traditionally done as well in this space due to need for technical depth
• Scott (customer) himself owns the Business of IT
  • Opportunity for taking technical and business things off his plate
  • Scott is running the Aptio implementation himself
  • Junior EA opp, as per one of the managers
• Currently his team is understaffed by 1 due to performance and that’s what has created this role.
• Target start will be 1/6/25 most likely because they are under cost controls right now

Architect Requirements:

• Hold own on technical capabilities with business partners technical leads (credibility) who are incredibly technical
• Not necessarily a hands on keyboard role, but a role which must understand things like:
  • Datacenter migration to cloud, high availability technical
  • Networking and Cloud
  • Infrastructure
  • Software development pipelines
  • Example of what someone needs from a tech perspective, If I said we were needing to talk about an app on RedHat 5.5, this person would understand why and be able to describe….
• Someone who was a tech consultant/Junior EA recently / currently with desire for EA
• Needs ability to facilitate, converse with senior leaders, drive discussion with technical staff in the verticals, within IT
• Roadmap, horizontals, planning, software code standards patterns and practices