Business Architect with Banking

Job Title: Business Architect with Banking experience

Location: Buffalo, NY

Duration: Long term

Top Skills'' Details

1. Candidate should have experience with Strategy Alignment.
o Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps
o Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcome

2. Candidate should also have experience with Business Architecture Modeling
o Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models
o Define current-state and target-state business architectures

3. Ideal candidate should also Banking/ Financial Service experience

4. Candidate should have experience engaging with Stakeholders as well.
o Partner with executives, product teams, EA, and delivery teams
o Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

·         Cloud

·         Azure

·         Process improvement

·         Data analysis

Job Description

Client is looking to add a Business Architect to the team. The Business Architect defines and evolves the enterprise’s business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution.

This role establishes clarity on:
• What the business is trying to achieve (strategy and outcomes)
• How value is delivered (value streams)
• What the business must be able to do (capabilities)

The Business Architect serves as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities
- Strategy Alignment
o Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps
o Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcome
- Business Architecture Modeling
o Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models
o Define current-state and target-state business architectures []
- Transformation & Investment Guidance
o Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value
o Support portfolio planning and initiative prioritization
- Enterprise Analysis & Design
o Assess business processes, structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency
o Define business-driven requirements for transformation efforts
- Stakeholder Engagement
o Partner with executives, product teams, EA, and delivery teams
o Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders
- Governance & Standards
o Establish and enforce business architecture standards and frameworks
o Ensure traceability from strategy through execution
- Cross-Architecture Alignment
o Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align designs
o Ensure business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Expected Skills
- Strategic thinking and business model design
- Capability modeling and value stream mapping
- Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
- Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
- Problem-solving and structured decision-making
- Financial and investment analysis (business case, prioritization)
- Influence without authority across complex organizations
- Visualization and modeling (e.g., capability maps, operating models)
Expected Knowledge
- Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
- Capabilities, value streams, organization, information mapping
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, FEAPO-aligned definitions)
- Operating model design and business transformation methods
- Financial services industry structure, regulations, and risk considerations
- Portfolio management and investment prioritization
- SDLC and technology delivery lifecycle alignment
- Data, process, and organizational design principles

Expected Deliverables
- Business capability maps (L1–L3) with ownership and maturity assessment
- Value stream maps tied to customer journeys and outcomes
- Current-state and target-state business architecture views
- Business architecture roadmaps aligned to strategy and investment plans
- Capability heatmaps and gap analyses
- Business-driven input into enterprise roadmaps and portfolio decisions
- Executive-ready models and strategy artifacts
- Traceability from strategy → capabilities → initiatives → outcomes

Educational Qualifications:

• Required - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or closely related or equivalent.
• Preferred - Master’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, Big Data or Analytics or equivalent.

Travel:

·   Open to travel based up on the nature of the engagement.

Thanks & Regards