Enterprise Architect - Business Architecture

Federal Express Corporation; California, Los Angeles (MO, CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a visionary Enterprise Architect-Commercial to lead long-term architectural strategies. This role emphasizes collaboration with business and IT stakeholders to align enterprise capabilities with strategic initiatives. You will drive the development of actionable roadmaps that reflect business value and influence broader industry trends. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will shape the future of enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with preferred future states while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about transforming business strategies into effective architectural solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IT or engineering environments.
• Ability to create and evolve enterprise guiding principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-range planning for enterprise architecture.
• Engage with business and IT architects for impact assessments.

Skills

Lateral Leadership

Communication Skills

Business Capability Management

Requirements Analysis

Flexibility in Managing Priorities

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent Formal Training

Tools

IRIS

Sparx

Job description

Lead long range planning for the structure/interaction between the business strategy, organization, and business, application, data and technical architectures. This role will specifically have a focus and understanding of Commercial domain.
As a Enterprise Architect-Commercial, this position is focused on long-term architecture and strategy for at the enterprise level. Daily activities will include engagement with business and IT architects to determine impact assessment, decompose and analyze strategic initiatives. You will be a leader in enterprise architecture, inform the development of cross-functional, multi-platform systems, engage with enterprise, portfolio and solution architects across FedEx.
Additionally, this position works closely with and engages business and technical stakeholders at all levels of the FedEx Enterprise to translate FedEx business strategy and initiatives into actionable strategic roadmaps. The Enterprise Architect - Commercial will work with stakeholders and architects to identify and define enterprise capabilities, create conceptual architecture, build out a long-term roadmap, and create durable and initiative-based architectural artifacts for the consumption of the teams to execute with a business value driven approach. This will require understanding of the impact and influence of broader industry trends on the strategic business vision to recommend action plans for our global operations and to executive leadership.

Position Expectations:

• Understanding business problems, engaging with business users and communicating how work is driving impact to business
• Manage segments of the enterprise business capability model and provide business architecture and recommendations in support of key enterprise strategies.
• Knowledge and ability to create and evolve an enterprises' guiding principles and business architecture including organization structure, process architecture and performance management, as well as supporting information, applications and technology.
• Align designs to preferred future state styles, patterns, frameworks, tooling, and platforms.
• Contribute to a domain's preferred future state (baseline and target architectures, vision, principles, guidelines, roadmaps, application transition plans).
• Provide governance and oversight across initiatives to ensure that architectural designs are in alignment with preferred future state.
• Review, triage, and classify Enterprise demand.

Desired Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Strong lateral leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong understanding of business capability management strategies and solutions with hands-on experience architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering solutions
• Experience working with Business and IT Architects in requirements analysis and modeling tools (e.g., IRIS, Sparx, or other similar tools)
• Knowledge of Business Architecture Guild (BIZBOK)
• Experience with Commercial domains and technology systems
• Flexibility to manage multiple priorities and initiatives at the same time

Minimum Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems and/or equivalent formal training.

Minimum Experience

Five (5) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Ability to apply basic computer concepts, theories, principles and methods to projects, business problems, issues, and/or questions.

Strong communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay: U.S. Pay Range: $9,208.38/month - $16,575.08/month

Additional Details: Application Criteria: Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by May 15th, 2025 at 5pm CT as this will be the deadline to apply for this role.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact [e-mail].

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• Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
• EEO is the Law Supplement
• Pay Transparency Policy
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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