Business Architect Leader

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. 

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.  

Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you. 

About this Position

The role of the Transformation Office is to effectively manage change execution across the firm whilst incrementally increasing consistency and introducing new ways of working to enable more holistic change. Transformation Office delivery teams (consisting of business architects, program managers, project managers, organizational change practitioners, and process engineers) are tasked with supporting sponsors to execute the firm’s change strategy, as well as BU specific change agendas and programs. Additionally, to augment and enhance day-to-day delivery, the Transformation Office is also focused on evolving our change standards, practices, and governance, as well as increasing enterprise agility. The intent is to do so with a bias toward driving consistency and applying an enterprise lens to prioritization and governance. The Enterprise Journeys support change execution through multi-functional, global initiatives driving towards a future state vision.

Role Summary

Conducts highly complex analyses and reporting in support of general business operations, special projects/initiatives, and/or strategic/operational planning activities. Serves as an internal consultant on business unit or firm initiatives of strategic importance, or large/complex functions or business units. Will enlist support from and lead junior staff or peers. Provides confident leadership and expert continuous improvement consulting over large/complex functions within a business unit and spanning across multiple business units. This Leader must evolve the field of Business Architecture and perpetuate the methodology’s value. Leads cross-program efforts to ensure consistent application and quality of the deliverables within their area of expertise and drives innovation and strategic solutions across global, mission-critical, large-scale programs.

Responsibilities

• Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions). Impacts the business through contribution to strategic direction, data-driven decision-making, and enablement of a disciplined approach to continuous improvement.
• Develops consultative partnerships with internal teams and leaders to understand their vision, strategy, strategic objectives, and key performance indicators. Responsible for analyzing and defining business issues, opportunities, and enhancements and implementing business solutions. Effectively communicates the underlying meaning of the analyses, which ultimately translate to actionable intelligence to senior leaders. Creates and delivers executive-level, professional presentations.
• Defines, develops, and implements specialized technical solutions to unprecedented and complex issues. Determines where measurement gaps exist and implements or trains business resources to manage measurement plans and designate ownership to fill those gaps. Gathers, organizes, and reviews operational data/metrics, analyzes and synthesizes the data, then compiles it into dashboards, reports, or presentations. Navigates the entire firm, especially operational and control groups, in order to effectively complete tasks. Serves as