Business Process Architect

About the role

The Business Process Architect will report directly to a Senior Business Process Architect. This position is a key part of the Global Process Team and is responsible for understanding the company’s business strategy, North Star operating vision, business imperatives and capabilities, and how they affect technology imperatives and strategic initiatives. This individual is responsible for support processes that govern all functional and regional groups. Develops interaction model for people, resources, and controls within the process constraintsThe Business Architect will partner with the business, global technical business solutions, GI Controls and IT to ensure adoption of “best practices” and standardization of business architecture outputs across the company. 

The responsibilities for this role include: 

• Understand the company’s business strategy, operating vision, business imperatives and capabilities, and how they affect technology imperatives. 

• Understand the key challenges that sponsor and key stakeholders face. 

• Define opportunities to create business value for the company. 

• Define the specific business solutions and structures needed to realize these opportunities. 

• Help define the performance goals, metrics, and key milestones for the proposed solutions. 

• Review prototypes, enterprise blueprints, and the scope of the initiatives to meet the business imperatives. 

• Increase the level of business and IT leaders confidence in the solution. 

• Identify risks and assumptions associated with the functional elements of the solution. 

• Advocate and drive adoption of “best practices” to ensure standardization of business architecture outputs across the company 

• Works closely with solution/technical architects to deliver business architecture artifacts needed for End-to-End Architecture & Solution Architecture Approach deliverables 

• Anticipates emerging business trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operations improvements 

• Makes recommendations and collaborates with business to ensure solutions meets the business needs on a complex project or program. 

• Assess and diagnose business problems ranging from tactical to strategic in size and nature. Apply a wide range of business performance diagnostic methods, tools, and capabilities, both quantitative and qualitative, to analyze issues, identify root-causes, quantify problems, and effectively communicate findings and results to senior business leaders. 

• Work with stakeholders from across the organization (senior and junior) to develop solutions and ideas for identified business challenges. Apply various solution development techniques through facilitated workshops, direct engagement sessions, etc. to transform process, people, organizational design, roles, and technology. 

• Lead business process design and improvement efforts for key business problems using common re-engineering techniques, including application of best practices and LEAN. 

• Develop comprehensive designs and details to outline strategic and tactical solutions for the business, and work with IT where needed to translate to business requirements.  <