Senior Business Architect, Everyday Financial Services

ATB; Toronto; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ATB is seeking an experienced Senior Business Architect to advance business architecture across Everyday Financial Services and other segments. You will partner with SMEs to align strategic priorities, identify capabilities, and drive measurable financial benefits while bridging multiple stakeholders to deliver customer-centric outcomes.

You will lead the design of strategic initiatives, collaborate with Technology Architects to guide solutions, and champion a Center of Excellence mindset to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience applying Business Architecture in strategic initiatives.
• Ability to translate business needs into strategic requirements.
• Proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Champion Business Architecture and its Center of Excellence at ATB.
• Deliver a 3–5 year roadmap of Business Capabilities and align with CX&T partners.
• Identify, create, and support Value Streams with strategic requirements and business cases.
• Build relationships across business units and optimize internal processes.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Education

Business Architecture experience (5+ years)

Certification in a Business Architecture standard (asset)

Tools

Enterprise Architecture tools

Job description

At ATB, we exist to make it possible for our clients, team members and communities. Our purpose is more than aspirational. It's a real commitment we live every day through our values (what we call the ATB ID).

Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:

Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.

Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.

Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director, Business Architecture, we are looking for an experienced Senior Business Architect to complement our Business Architecture team. This team member will be responsible for helping to strategically enable and advance business architecture work, for Everyday Financial Services (EFS) and other business segments across ATB. They will partner with our internal and external SMEs to work collaboratively across the enterprise to ensure strategic alignment and serve as the bridge between multiple stakeholders to represent business priorities while identifying financial benefits. This role will be critical to identify and prioritize business capabilities required to enable our business strategy.

Our team prides itself on ensuring that excellent client and team member experiences are the outcome of every project we undertake. We are seeking a partner that keeps the voice of the client and team member in mind, is deeply curious about our business and is not afraid to challenge the status quo in pursuit of our goals. We are enabling big changes as we grow our business and need a partner who can harness our passion into thoughtful and well crafted projects and outcomes through strategic thinking and a customer centric target state vision.

Accountabilities

• Champion Business Architecture: Act as a senior leader, championing Business Architecture and its Center of Excellence at ATB, and understanding business implications of current and future trends to drive purposeful innovation.
• Align to and deliver on the strategy: Create a 3-5 year roadmap of Business Capabilities, foster collaboration with CX&T(Client Experience & Technology) partners ensuring alignment, understanding of business needs, and work with Technology Architects to guide solutions.
• Manage Value Streams and requirements: Identify, create, and support Value Streams that drive business metrics, develop high-level business case benefits for prioritization, and provide strategic requirements to business analysts for roadmap capabilities. Map client journeys and leverage the outputs to articulate target state client experiences and ecosystem requirements.
• Build relationships and improve operational processes: Develop and nurture relationships across business units, partners, and external vendors. Find ways to optimize internal processes for maximum efficiency while minimizing costs.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen:

• Enterprise-level thinking with a focus on the big picture
• Natural curiosity to drive client value and business results by questioning assumptions
• Strong business acumen and ability to quickly understand the organizational landscape

Business Architecture Expertise:

• Expert knowledge of Business Architecture principles and application
• Ability to develop and execute business strategies
• Proven skills in business problem-solving

Project & Initiative Management:

• Ability to manage and coordinate business architecture initiatives through all phases
• Coordinate cross-functional teams for initiative delivery
• Ability to consolidate large amount of raw input from partners and translate into project scope and strategic requirements
• Expertise in strategic planning, project framing, and business case development
• Work plan development, tracking, and milestone management

Process Design & Automation:

• Business Process Management expertise to identify improvement and automation opportunities

Interpersonal & Leadership Skills:

• Strong relationship management skills
• Ability to communicate vision to leadership using storytelling
• Ability to prioritize and manage expectations

Data & Analytics:

• Experience with data reporting, visualization, and dashboarding
• Proficiency in descriptive and diagnostic analytics

Education & Experience:

• Deep understanding of Business Architecture methodologies and concepts
• 5+ years of experience applying Business Architecture practices in strategic initiatives
• Certification in a Business Architecture standard (asset)
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (asset)

Workplace Arrangement

This role can be either hybrid or remote. If you live in Alberta, you’ll work both remote and onsite from an ATB corporate office, where time onsite is based on your job accountabilities and performance objectives. If you live outside of Alberta, you’ll work fully remote with occasional travel to ATB corporate locations in Alberta.

Don’t meet all the requirements on the list?
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes,we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.

We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.