IT Security Architect

Purpose: The IT Business Architect is responsible for leading efforts to align business capabilities to our enterprise business strategies, technology roadmap, and standards. Create and maintain the enterprise business architecture models and partner with IT Enterprise Architecture, Business, and IT teams to develop solutions that bridge business capabilities to achieve strategic enterprise goals. The IT Business Architect will provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, and the planning and execution of various business scenarios to deliver bottom line business value.

Essential Duties

Apply architectural principles to clearly articulate its business capabilities, governance structure, and supporting processes using a holistic approach.
Align the strategic objective and tactical demands of impacted business groups by defining and analyzing what the group does, how it does it, how it is organized, identifying common business capabilities across other business domains, and how it realizes value.
Document business architectural models to define current and future state, and effectively communicate them with business and IT stakeholders.
Lead and manage business architecture diagram reviews.
Define, develop, and maintain integrated views of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, identifying and leveraging an appropriate framework, and available standard techniques.
Advise IT Leadership in defining the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
Lead in the collaboration with business and IT teams to propose, architect, and plan technology solutions and provide advise into technical solution designs.
Ensure that business and technology are in alignment by linking the Client's business strategy, and processes with IT strategy.
Depict the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
Identify business capabilities and distinguish the value streams
Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
Serve as Subject Matter Expert in business process for assigned program area(s), as well as maintains a clear understanding of business architecture concerns across Client's enterprise.

Mature Business Architecture Practice

Actively lead and participate in process improvement initiatives and in setting best practice standards around Business Architecture, Governance, and Quality Control.
Proactively investigate opportunities to increase the value to the business.
Advise in the development, implementation, and maintenance of appropriate governance process on business architecture team's involvement in IT development life cycle.
Actively participate in Portfolio composition and priority setting using established Standard Business Architecture Artifacts including integrated Value Stream and End to End process models.
Establish enterprise-wide Business Architecture models that informs Top level organizational decisions and Strategic Initiative planning and execution.

Type Of Experience

Five (5) to Seven (7) years of demonstrated experience with analyzing and documenting business value streams, capabilities, processes, and data using model-based representations for the purpose of collecting, aggregating, or analyzing complex business information.
One (1) to Two (2) years of business leadership experience.
Ability to handle a large variety of details and to work with all levels of organization.
Excellent analytical and proven problem-solving skills.
Ability to absorb information from multiple sources and produce clear, accurate and concise communications.
Proficient with diagramming tools (MS Visio, Lucid Chart, or equivalent)
Experience/knowledge of Enterprise Architecture modelling, repository, and publishing tools (nice to have).
Knowledge of software development lifecycle methodologies with experience in both Classic and Agile (scaled) methodologies
Experience utilizing industry-recognized architectural frameworks and standards such as Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEAF) or TOGAF (nice to have).
Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and have strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education

Bachelor's degree with a strong academic record