Principal Business Architect

Blue Cross NC; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross NC currently seeks a Principal Business Architect to deliver internal consulting and change leadership at the enterprise level. This role links business strategy to capabilities, people, process, technology, and information to drive meaningful improvements across the organization.

You will partner with senior leaders, facilitate planning workshops, and advise on complex problems while developing enterprise business architecture models and roadmaps aligned with strategic goals and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree required or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in related field; in lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience accepted.
• Experience facilitating workshops with senior leaders and driving strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Deliver internal consulting and change leadership at enterprise level.
• Link business strategy to capabilities, people, processes, technology, and information.
• Assist senior leaders with large, complex business problems and drive improvements.
• Apply business management tools (e.g., SWOT, Scenario Planning) to enable data-driven decisions.
• Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture models.
• Translate strategies into roadmaps and annual project portfolios.
• Analyze current/future states, performance gaps, and root causes.
• Influence leaders to apply business planning disciplines to achieve goals.

Skills

Business architecture

Strategic planning

Facilitation

Consulting

Stakeholder influence

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

8+ years of experience in related field

In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience

Job description

As a Principal Business Architect, you will deliver internal consulting services and change leadership to enhance the effectiveness of the organization at the enterprise level. Link business strategy to the development of capabilities, people, process, technology, and information. Assist senior leaders with large, complex and/or ambiguous business problems and driving business improvements. Contribute and support the development of the Company’s business architecture based on strategic and tactical enterprise goals and industry-leading Business Architecture practices.

What You'll Do

• This is a senior-level role emphasizing business consulting, combined with components of strategy, business planning, business architecture management, process engineering, influence and leadership disciplines. This is a highly visible enterprise role that will interact with leaders across the company.
• Facilitate participative decision making and planning workshops. Workshop participants are typically senior leaders from multiple departments.
• Provide consulting to senior and mid-level leadership on complex and/or ambiguous business problems, and advise on low-risk/high-value alternatives.
• Apply business management consulting tools to remove ambiguity, and drive data-driven decisions making and planning (e.g. SWOT, 5 Forces, Scenario Planning, etc.)
• Contribute to the development of enterprise business architecture models.
• Apply strategic planning practices to translate strategies into business roadmaps and annual project portfolios
• Conduct analysis of business current and future states, performance gaps, and their root causes.
• Understand business behavior patterns and how they work together to enable the business to achieve their strategic and tactical goals.
• Monitor the business sector, industry, technology, infrastructure, legal and regulatory environment trends. Incorporate the consequences of these trends into actionable recommendations to internal clients.
• Develop, organize, and execute enterprise business planning processes.
• Influence senior business leaders in their use of business planning disciplines to achieve business goals.
• Develop and maintain working relationship with business leaders/strategy owners.

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)

8+ years of experience in related field.

In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.