Lead, Business Architecture & Transformation

Kyndryl; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 92,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a strategic Lead, Business Architecture to align business strategy with technology execution. This onsite role in Frisco, TX, partners with executives, product management, and IT leadership to drive transformation and establish architecture standards.

The ideal candidate brings leadership, strong enterprise thinking, and hands-on experience shaping operating models, capability maps, and roadmaps across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, management consulting, or transformation roles.
• Proven experience leading large-scale business transformation or modernization initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of business architecture frameworks (e.g., BIZBOK, TOGAF).
• Strong experience with business capability modeling, value stream mapping, and process design.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive alignment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise business architecture, including capability models, value streams, and operating models.
• Align business strategy with execution by translating strategic objectives into actionable frameworks and initiatives.
• Drive enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, including process optimization, modernization, and organizational design.
• Partner with executive stakeholders, product management, and IT leadership to ensure alignment across business and technology domains.
• Develop and evolve business capability maps to support prioritization, investment planning, and roadmap development.
• Identify operational gaps, redundancies, and inefficiencies; recommend and implement improvements.
• Establish and enforce business architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops to align stakeholders and define business requirements.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects (data, application, and technology) to ensure integrated, scalable solutions.
• Support portfolio planning, investment decisions, and benefits realization tracking.
• Mentor and guide junior architects and analysts

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise thinking

Business architecture

Architecture frameworks

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LeanIX

ArchiMate

Visio

Sparx EA

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a strategic Lead, Business Architecture to align business strategy with technology execution. This onsite role in Frisco, TX, partners with executives, product management, and IT leadership to drive transformation and establish architecture standards.

The ideal candidate brings leadership, strong enterprise thinking, and hands-on experience shaping operating models, capability maps, and roadmaps across complex environments.