Enterprise Business Architect

Lincoln Motor Company; Dover (DE); In loco; USD 87.000 - 166.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Flexible holidays

Descrizione del lavoro

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Enterprise Business Architect to translate enterprise strategy into repeatable EA processes, tools and roadmaps. You will partner with senior leadership to align business goals with IT investments and to design future-state operating models.

In this role you will build capability models, value streams and target operating models, facilitate workshops across business units, and maintain governance standards for enterprise architecture across the organization.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture, strategy or management consulting.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (i.e. ServiceNow, YouDesign, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Proven experience developing capability models, value stream maps and target operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to assess capabilities, analyze findings and deliver recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills to assess current-state processes and identify inefficiencies, gaps and redundancies.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business strategy into actionable roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience leading workshops and interviews to gather requirements and build stakeholder consensus.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects.
• Experience establishing governance processes and architecture standards across an enterprise.
• Strong communication and change management skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Business acumen to link capabilities to strategic initiatives and evaluate risks, dependencies and value drivers.

Mansioni

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into actionable capability maps, value streams and target operating models.
• Build and maintain enterprise capability models to uncover gaps, redundancies and investment opportunities.
• Analyze current-state business processes and organizational structures to identify inefficiencies and drive improvements.
• Provide input into the design of future-state business architectures including process redesign, organizational realignment and capability roadmaps.
• Lead workshops and interviews with business unit leaders, subject matter experts and technology teams to gather requirements and build consensus on architectural direction.
• Establish and maintain business architecture standards / frameworks andgovernance processes for enterprise-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects to align business architecture with IT architecture and solution design.
• Support investment planning by linking business capabilities to strategic initiatives and identifying dependencies, risks and value drivers.
• Drive adoption of new business models by communicating architectural vision and rationale to stakeholders across all levels.
• Curate, organize and maintain learning content to support enterprise architecture learning pathways and employee development.

Conoscenze

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF/BIZBOK

Capability models

Value stream maps

Stakeholder facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Business or IT

Strumenti

ServiceNow

YouDesign

Descrizione del lavoro

The Enterprise Business Architect is responsible for translating enterprise strategy into repeatable EA processes, tools and technologies. The immediate focus will be on building actionable IT investment roadmaps, assessing business capabilities and creating EA models/artifacts that enable data-driven investment decisions. The role bridges business strategy and execution by analyzing current-state operations and designing future-state investment strategies that align business goals, processes, organizational structure and technology. The Business Architect collaborates cross-functionally with executive leadership, business unit stakeholders and EA teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation.

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into actionable capability maps, value streams and target operating models.

• Build and maintain enterprise capability models to uncover gaps, redundancies and investment opportunities.

• Analyze current-state business processes and organizational structures to identify inefficiencies and drive improvements.

• Provide input into the design of future-state business architectures including process redesign, organizational realignment and capability roadmaps.

• Lead workshops and interviews with business unit leaders, subject matter experts and technology teams to gather requirements and build consensus on architectural direction.

• Establish and maintain business architecture standards / frameworks andgovernance processes for enterprise-wide consistency.

• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects to align business architecture with IT architecture and solution design.

• Support investment planning by linking business capabilities to strategic initiatives and identifying dependencies, risks and value drivers.

• Drive adoption of new business models by communicating architectural vision and rationale to stakeholders across all levels.

• Curate, organize and maintain learning content to support enterprise architecture learning pathways and employee development.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field.

• 7+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture, strategy or management consulting.

• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (i.e. ServiceNow, YouDesign, etc.).

• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK).

• Proven experience developing capability models, value stream maps and target operating models.

• Demonstrated ability to assess capabilities, analyze findings and deliver recommendations that drive informed decision-making.

• Strong analytical skills to assess current-state processes and identify inefficiencies, gaps and redundancies.

• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business strategy into actionable roadmaps and investment priorities.

• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience leading workshops and interviews to gather requirements and build stakeholder consensus.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects.

• Experience establishing governance processes and architecture standards across an enterprise.

• Strong communication and change management skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all organizational levels.

• Business acumen to link capabilities to strategic initiatives and evaluate risks, dependencies and value drivers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in large-scale digital transformation or IT investment planning initiatives.

• Familiarity with Agile and portfolio management practices.

Even better, you may have...

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7-8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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