IT Business Architect

Job Description

Responsibilities:
The position’s essential duties include the following:
The Business Architect plays a key role in developing and creating a common understanding of the enterprise by applying architectural principles to clearly articulate its business capabilities, governance structure, and supporting processes using a holistic approach.
Focus on defining and analyzing aspects of what the impacted business group does, how it does it, how it is organized, and how it realizes value. This information is used to align the strategic objectives and tactical demands.
Document business architectural models, define current and future state, and effectively communicate them with business and IT stakeholders.
Assist in defining the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
Collaborate with business and IT teams to propose, architect, and plan technology solutions and provide input into technical solution designs.
Define, develop, and maintain integrated views of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, identifying and leveraging an appropriate framework, and available standard techniques.
Ensure that business and technology are in alignment by linking the business strategy, and processes with IT strategy.

Type of Experience
Five (5)+ years of demonstrated experience with analyzing and documenting business processes, using model-based representations for the purpose of collecting, aggregating, or analyzing complex business information.
Experience utilizing industry-recognized architectural frameworks and standards such as Federal
Enterprise Architecture (FEA) or TOGAF (nice to have).
Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio).
Knowledge of software development lifecycle methodologies.