Business Architect Lead - Cross Company Member Initiatives (Financial Services)

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly qualified Business Architect Lead to support the P&C Cross-CoSA Member Initiatives Team.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in our San Antonio, TX; Plano, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Colorado Springs, CO; Charlotte, NC; Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL offices.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

This role will play a pivotal role in shaping, aligning, and delivering our organizational strategy and driving the successful execution of growth initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in all sectors of financial services (P&C, Life Insurance and Bank).  They will have experience with customer-centric strategies, have excellent analytical skills and the ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, facilitate creative and scalable solutions, with a proven track record of delivering strategic outcomes.

In this role you will apply technical skills and deep business knowledge to increase strategy to execution alignment. You will reduce risk of strategy divergence by influencing, and partnering with, business leaders in course of action translation. You will facilitate and guide cross-functional teams to systemically align business strategies and technology investments. Set architecture strategy and governance for the holistic business ecosystem based on decision needs of strategy and business leaders. And support the organization's long-range planning and portfolio prioritization processes, and some management reviews of implemented plans.

• Provide overall direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitor implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
• Partner with Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives to use insights to inform strategic choices, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
• Design architecture approaches, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate business executives in business strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints).
• Design current and target state assessments, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (i.e., capability-based planning).
• Provide consultation on business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
• Serve as the primary conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
• Facilitate, negotiate, and represent business' interests in the maturation and investment in business architecture.
• Drive the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
• Provide business and technical mentorship to create and maintain role consistency and build the talent pipeline.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 8 years of relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capab