Business Architect Senior - Property & Casualty PMO

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

As a dedicated Business Architect Senior supporting the Property & Casualty Portfolio Management Office, you will play a pivotal role in delivering our organizational strategy, driving the successful execution of initiatives, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. In this role you will apply deep business knowledge and technical skills to increase strategy to execution alignment, set architecture strategy and governance for the holistic business ecosystem, guide cross-functional teams to systemically align business strategies and technology investments, and support portfolio planning, prioritization, and execution readiness processes.
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 one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

•    Provides direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
•    Supports Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
•    Executes business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
•    Translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives.
•    Contributes to the design of and facilitates 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). 
•    Applies and utilizes business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
•    Serves as a 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. 
•    Facilitates, negotiates, and represents business' interests in the maturation and investment in business architecture.
•    Facilitates the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
•    Contributes to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
•    Stays updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
•    Ensures 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.
•    6 years of relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development.
•    2 years of hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
•    Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services.
•    Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile).
•    Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
•    Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes.
•    Knowledge and application of industry standard