Enterprise Architecture - Business Architecture - Principal (Open to Remote)

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to use tech to tackle housing’s biggest challenges and impact the future of the industry. You’ll be a part of an expert team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will advise on processes and analyses to monitor business problems and/or opportunities, including process improvement, system enhancement, and training. In this role, you will support the development, networking, and/or project management of strategic business objectives.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Enterprise Architecture - Business Architecture - Principal role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Partner with business, product and technology leads to manage a team defining business cases, setting transformation goals and objectives to launch key initiatives.
• Identify innovation opportunities and use hands-on concepts like interactive prototyping, low fidelity POC’s to showcase potential business value while managing a team doing the same.
• Lead large discovery sessions with SME’s and stakeholder groups to formulate business outcomes, customer personas, journeys & experiences, prototyping and POC’s for solving complex business problems.
• In partnership with business sponsors and product leads, envision, plan, implement, communicate, promote and update the target business architecture over multiple time horizons.
• Manage other business architects across multiple value streams on actionable architecture, engagement and relationship building strategies.
• Build relationships across business, product and Tech stakeholder groups to become a trusted partner and advisor in making key decisions while managing staff to do the same.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8 years of experience in IT or Finance Industry
• Prior experience as a business architect
• Bachelor degree or equivalent

Desired Experiences

• MBA in Finance and/or Capital Markets experience is preferred.
• Experience working with the Front office & Operations.
• In-depth knowledge of new technical capabilities with the ability to translate that knowledge, while training others, into business goals and objectives aligned to strategic priorities.
• Design thinking skills including hands-on prototyping, customer journey mapping, and persona development is a plus.
• The ability to make insightful, successful business decisions and tradeoffs assessing the internal and external business landscape, strategies, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options while managing resources to help the organization navigate the changing environment.
• Possess engagement management skills including nurturing stakeholder relationships, prompt response to requests, and proactively identifies business opportunities while managing others to do the same.
• A history of defining and new, original ideas and successfully managing a team implementing them across a diverse organization.

Skills

• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand.
• Successfully manage multiple competing work efforts across multiple teams. Involves assessing impacts, importance and urgency and setting direction and expectations - to meet or exceed expectations for timeliness and quality of work.
• Skilled in supporting, controlling, monitoring, and management of large, complex, and sometimes geographically dispersed IT infrastructure and applications to optimize IT service delivery.
• Business Process Management including business process modeling, process design and implementation, etc.
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion.
• Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options and identifying resources to meet the