Business Architect

Role: Business Architect

Location: Buffalo, NY (Preferred) / Remote

(Travel to Buffalo, NY every 4 6 weeks required; Monday Thursday onsite during travel weeks) Department: Enterprise Architecture
Reports To: Enterprise Architecture Manager

Client Name: Bank

Position Overview

Bank is seeking a strategic and collaborative Business Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team. This individual will play a critical role in defining and evolving the organization s business architecture to ensure alignment between enterprise strategy, operating models, capabilities, and execution initiatives.

The Business Architect serves as a bridge between business leadership and technology teams, helping translate strategic objectives into actionable business capabilities, value streams, and transformation roadmaps. This role will partner closely with executives, enterprise architects, product teams, and delivery organizations to drive strategic alignment and measurable business outcomes across the enterprise.

This position is ideal for a professional with deep business architecture expertise, strong executive communication skills, and experience operating within large, complex enterprise environments preferably within financial services.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Alignment

• Translate enterprise strategy into business capability models, value streams, and initiative roadmaps
• Ensure transformation initiatives align with strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes
• Support long-term business and operating model planning efforts

Business Architecture Modeling

• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, operating models, and business architecture artifacts
• Define and document current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Create executive-ready visualizations and strategic planning materials

Transformation & Investment Guidance

• Identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities across the enterprise
• Support portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and business case development
• Provide business architecture guidance for enterprise transformation initiatives

Enterprise Analysis & Design

• Assess business processes, organizational structures, and supporting systems for alignment and operational effectiveness
• Define business-driven requirements and strategic inputs for transformation programs
• Partner with technology teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with executives, business leaders, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Product teams, and delivery organizations
• Facilitate alignment between business and technology stakeholders across multiple initiatives
• Influence decision-making across complex organizational environments without direct authority

Governance & Standards

• Establish and maintain business architecture standards, frameworks, and best practices
• Ensure traceability from strategy through execution, including capabilities, initiatives, and outcomes
• Promote consistency in business architecture methodologies and deliverables

Cross-Architecture Collaboration

• Partner with Enterprise, Solution, Data, and Domain Architects to align business and technology strategies
• Ensure business intent is accurately reflected in enterprise solutions and technology decisions
• Contribute to enterprise-wide architecture governance and planning activities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
  (Master s degree preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Consulting, or Transformation roles
• Demonstrated experience developing business architecture artifacts including:
• Capability maps
• Value stream maps
• Operating models
• Transformation roadmaps
• Strong business and technology acumen with the ability to connect strategy to execution
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise organizations
• Financial services industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment across business and technology organizations

Certifications

• Certified Business Architect (CBA ) Business Architecture Guild
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification

Required Skills & Competencies

• Business Architecture expertise
• Strategic thinking and operating model design
• Capability modeling and value stream mapping
• Enterprise analysis and systems thinking
• Executive communication and stakeholder facilitation
• Business case development and investment prioritization
• Structured problem-solving and decision-making
• Cross-functional leadership and collaboration
• Visualization and modeling techniques
• Understanding of SDLC and enterprise delivery lifecycles

Expected Deliverables

• Business capability maps (L1 L3) with ownership and maturity assessments
• Value stream maps aligned to customer journeys and business outcomes
• Current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Business architecture roadmaps aligned to enterprise strategy
• Capability heatmaps and gap analyses
• Strategic inputs into portfolio planning and investment decisions
• Executive-level presentations, models, and architecture artifacts
• Traceability across strategy, capabilities, initiatives, and measurable outcomes

Additional Information

• Remote candidates will be considered
• Travel to Buffalo, NY required every 4 6 weeks
• Eastern or Central Time Zone candidates preferred
• Financial services background strongly preferred
• Background check required
• No conflicts of interest or personal relationships with M&T employees permitted as part of engagement requirements

Thanks

John

Netstrive Consulting, LLC

450, E. 22^nd St, Suite 178,

Lombard, IL 60148

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