Enterprise Business Architect Lead: Operating Model Design

Energy Transfer; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Performance bonus

Vacation/PTO

Job summary

Energy Transfer is seeking an Enterprise/Business Architect Lead to establish and lead the architecture discipline across the enterprise. You will translate strategy into operating models, capability frameworks, and platform governance, ensuring alignment of investments, processes, and technology with long-term business outcomes.

You will advise senior leaders, design future-state operating models, and drive M&A integration inputs while building a community of practice around business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise transformation, or management consulting.
• Experience establishing or maturing a business architecture function or practice.
• Expertise in capability modeling, value stream mapping, business process architecture, and operating model design.
• Strong executive stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience with enterprise platform implementations and governance.
• Proficiency with architecture or process tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, Visio, ARIS, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Establish Energy Transfer's business architecture practice including frameworks, tools, and standards.
• Define and maintain the enterprise capability model, value stream maps, and business process architecture.
• Govern platform and technology investment decisions from a business architecture perspective.
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, processes, data, and enabling technology across transformation programs.
• Partner with senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into operating model changes.
• Design future-state operating models for key business domains undergoing transformation.
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and improvement opportunities across the enterprise.
• Support M&A integration planning by providing operating model analysis and architecture inputs.
• Provide architectural oversight for enterprise platforms including CLM (Agiloft), data applications, and others.
• Define standards for platform ownership, product governance, and lifecycle management.
• Advise on build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions from a business capability standpoint.
• Partner with IT to ensure business and technical architectures remain aligned.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to VPs, Directors, and functional leaders across the enterprise.
• Facilitate business architecture workshops to surface current-state challenges and inform future-state design.
• Communicate complex architecture concepts in clear, business-facing language.
• Build an internal business architecture community of practice over time.

Skills

Executive stakeholder engagement

Communication

Leadership

Enterprise architecture

Value stream mapping

Operating model design

Business process modeling

Strategic advisory

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

MBA

TOGAF or BIZBOK certification

Tools

LeanIX

Mega

Visio

ARIS

Agiloft CLM

Job description

Energy Transfer is seeking an Enterprise/Business Architect Lead to establish and lead the architecture discipline across the enterprise. You will translate strategy into operating models, capability frameworks, and platform governance, ensuring alignment of investments, processes, and technology with long-term business outcomes.

You will advise senior leaders, design future-state operating models, and drive M&A integration inputs while building a community of practice around business