Senior Business Architect(Technical)

Job Title: Senior Business Architect (Technical)

Work Location: Remote

Project Name: DCEO Tax Credit System

Primary Responsibilities

Business Process Analysis & Documentation

• Lead the documentation of current-state ( as-is ) business processes for EIT Angel Investment and Film Tax Credit programs, including application intake, review, approval, compliance, reporting, and audit workflows.
• Identify process inefficiencies, manual touchpoints, system limitations, and integration gaps impacting program execution and stakeholder experience.
• Develop comprehensive gap analyses to highlight improvement opportunities and inform modernization priorities.

Requirements Elicitation & Validation

• Conduct structured stakeholder interviews, workshops, and working sessions with business owners, program administrators, finance teams, compliance staff, and technical stakeholders.
• Gather and document comprehensive functional requirements that are solution-agnostic and applicable across multiple platform options.
• Validate requirements through iterative review sessions to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with regulatory, policy, and operational needs.

Business Rules & Workflow Definition

• Define and document business rules, eligibility criteria, approval thresholds, exception handling, and compliance requirements governing tax credit programs.
• Model end-to-end business workflows that clearly represent decision points, roles, handoffs, and dependencies.
• Develop decision matrices to support objective platform evaluation and vendor comparison.

User Stories & Traceability

• Translate functional requirements into a structured user story library, complete with detailed acceptance criteria and business context.
• Ensure requirements are testable, traceable, and aligned to documented business objectives.
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) linking business goals, functional requirements, user stories, and evaluation criteria.

Key Deliverables

Current-State Process Documentation

• Detailed process maps and narratives for EIT Angel Investment and Film Tax Credit systems
• Identified gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities

Comprehensive Functional Requirements Document

• Clear, solution-independent functional requirements
• Business rules, constraints, and non-functional considerations

Business Process Workflows & Decision Artifacts

• End-to-end workflow diagrams
• Decision matrices supporting platform selection and evaluation

User Story Library

• Well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria
• Alignment to business objectives and regulatory requirements

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

• Traceability across processes, requirements, user stories, and evaluation criteria
• Support for governance, validation, and procurement decision-making

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex, enterprise-scale systems

• Strong expertise in business process modeling, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder facilitation

• Experience working with financial, tax, regulatory, or compliance-driven systems

• Demonstrated ability to create clear, structured, and audit-ready documentation

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge business, policy, and technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting government or public-sector modernization initiatives

• Familiarity with tax credit programs, grants, or incentive-based systems

• Experience supporting platform evaluation, COTS selection, or procurement activities

• Proficiency with tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Jira, Confluence, or similar