Senior Business Architect (PMO)

Job Description

Job Summary

Focuses on the alignment of strategic goals and organization objectives to the business project portfolio. Provides direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various business scenarios, and delivery of bottom-line business value. Project manages ideation projects. Under minimal to no supervision, partners with enterprise/solution/technical/security architects to deliver business architecture strategic artifacts needed for end-to-end solution architecture.

 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Partners in the strategic planning process by providing input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging capabilities, creating capability Heatmaps to provide visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities. Key Deliverables include (but not limited to): Capability Models, Capability Heatmaps, Capability Maturity Assessments, Capability Impact Assessments, Capability Health Assessments & Capability Roadmaps.
• Facilitates discussions with senior leaders to identify business capabilities in relation to current and future business strategic needs. Leads or supports process assessments and advocates adoption of “best practices” to ensure standardization of business architecture outputs across the enterprise.
• Supports delivery management which includes the alignment of delivery plan and the organization’s intended business case, supports the estimation of work effort, costing, planning, and issue/risk management. Partners with program management teams to ensure strategic objectives are met in execution. Manages other business architects and assure quality of their deliverables.
• Leads, builds, manages, enhances business capability catalog along maturity / optimization framework to drive enablement of the longer-term roadmap.

• Creates and maintains business capability, data, processes and technology inventories. Works with multiple capability and functional teams to gather and document the business and technology landscape. This includes participation in senior leadership meetings.
• Ability to execute data queries and analysis to help fact-based decision making
• Completes advanced deliverables; ability to use modeling techniques to design and communicate solutions.
• Complete mastery of business architecture techniques for process modeling, value stream mapping, assessments, and execution techniques.
• Effective planning, organizational and time management skills while on multiple complex assignments.
• Project manages ideation projects
• Proven interpersonal skills while in complex situations.
• Ability to resolve conflicts with little noise
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and IT Leads to define scalable solutions.
• Advanced understanding of Health IT (HIT), API utilization and industry trends.
• Advanced knowledge of healthcare payer processes/business.
• Recognizes obstacles that require attention. Solves vague/ambiguous problems of enterprise scope/complexity. Only engages management chain for facilitation of serious roadblocks/concerns.
• Provide governance support on priority projects that may have extensive cross functional impact and team organization.
• Presents recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely can focus on key points to portray the intended message or purpose.
• Partners with enterprise portfolio team by assessing and rationalizing proposed investments to reduce duplication, identify gaps, dependencies and constraints.
• Business thinking and highly strategic in order to define practical solutions that align with corporate strategy
• Partners with executive/senior leadership to build a business architecture strategy based on various business scenarios and motivations. Applies structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the critical views of the enterprise.
• Creates, maintains, or verifies use cases

 

Job Qualifications

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work