Business Architect with ARIS exp

KMM Technologies, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Reston, Virginia is searching for an experienced Business Architect. The role involves defining strategies and standards to guide business architecture, ensuring technology investments align with business objectives, and acting as a crucial link between business and technical teams. You should have over seven years of experience in this field, alongside strong architectural skills. A Bachelor's degree in a related area is essential. This position offers opportunities for impactful work within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Over seven years of experience in leading business architecture efforts.
• Experience in business architecture or business process designing.
• Experience acting as a liaison between IT and the rest of the business.

Responsibilities

• Defines strategies, principles and standards to guide business architecture.
• Develops understanding of core business processes including people and systems.
• Ensures technology investments enhance business capabilities.
• Advises on major process and technology change projects.

Skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Influence at all management levels

Architectural principles application

CRM and SOA skills

Requirements gathering

Microsoft Teams

ARIS Express

HOPEX

OneNote

SharePoint

Visio

Excel

JIRA

ServiceNow

AWS

Enterprise Architect

LDAP

Azure

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business or Economics in Information

Tools

Microsoft Teams

ARIS Express

HOPEX

OneNote

SharePoint

Visio

Excel

JIRA

ServiceNow

AWS

Enterprise Architect

LDAP

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Profile

A business architect designs and maintains the enterprise business architecture in support of business strategy. The architect designs the requirements, principles and models for the people, processes and technologies that support the company’s business capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Defines strategies, principles and standards to guide business architecture efforts across the organization.
• Develops an enterprise understanding of the core and supporting processes of the business, including the people, resources and systems involved.
• Ensures that technology investments enhance business capabilities and execute on business objectives.
• Works across business and technical teams to ensure technology investment decisions deliver on business needs.
• Creates business models and roadmaps, and assess capability and process gaps between the current and future states.
• Acts as an advisor on major process and technology change projects.
• Acts as a link between business and technical experts when designing technology solutions.
• Ensures business and technical stakeholders are working consistently across domains to support the company’s vision and strategy.
• Maintains knowledge on business and technology trends that impact the business environment.
• Drive Software Tools rationalization across the Enterprise by collaborating with partner organizations and enable cost savings and risk mitigation.
• Evolve Enterprise Business Capability model, Process Taxonomy and drive Business Architecture standards across the business portfolios.
• Partner with Business and Technical Process owners to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and help optimize the processes enabling faster Time to Market and lowering Total Cost of Ownership.
• Establish Reference Architectures, Composite Patterns and run Proof of Concepts on emerging technologies that can accelerate agile software delivery process.
• Lead Enterprise Business Architecture Functions partnering with peers, business and technical stakeholders and development teams.
• Plan and design methods for the optimization and integration of various technology platforms, policies, and principles that lead to target state implementation.
• Produce robust, integrated functioning of various systems and technology interfaces.

Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to influence all levels of management.
• Ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills.
• Requirements gathering.
• Skilled in Microsoft Teams.
• Skilled in ARIS Express.
• Skilled in HOPEX.
• Skilled in using OneNote.
• Experience using SharePoint.
• Skilled in Visio.
• Skilled in Excel.
• Experience using JIRA.
• Skilled in ServiceNow to manage digital workflows.
• Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms.
• Skilled in using Enterprise Architect.
• Skilled in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
• Skilled in Azure.
• Skilled in Kubernetes to automate application deployment, scaling, and management.

Experience

• Over seven years of experience in leading business architecture efforts.
• Experience in business architecture or business process designing.
• Experience acting as a liaison between IT and the rest of the business.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business or Economics in Information.

Thanks & Regards,

KMM Technologies, Inc.

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