Remote Governance & Enterprise Architecture Analyst

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 72,000 - 86,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Business System Analyst (Governance) for remote work to partner with architecture, engineering, security, and risk teams. The role focuses on governance, program oversight, and enterprise standards across technology solutions.

You will assess architectures, data flows, and controls, driving improvements in resiliency, security, and maintainability while supporting governance forums and reporting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years supporting enterprise technology solutions or transformation initiatives.
• Experience partnering directly with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
• Experience evaluating system integrations, APIs, data flows, cloud solutions, and enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting technology governance, architecture review boards, or technology risk assessments.
• Banking or financial services technology experience preferred.
• Experience evaluating application architectures, integrations, APIs, middleware platforms, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current-state and target-state architectures for alignment with strategic direction.
• Analyze application architectures, system interfaces, APIs, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies to identify design risks and opportunities.
• Participate in architecture reviews and solution design sessions with recommendations on scalability, resiliency, security, maintainability, and operational supportability.
• Develop and maintain business capability mappings, solution context diagrams, process flows, and system interaction models.
• Assess the technical impact of proposed changes across applications, platforms, integrations, and business processes.
• Ensure initiatives adhere to enterprise technology standards, architecture principles, information security requirements, and risk management frameworks.
• Partner with Technology Risk, Information Security, Compliance, and Audit teams to identify and mitigate technology-related risks.
• Evaluate process and system controls and recommend improvements to strengthen governance and operational effectiveness.
• Support governance forums and decision-making bodies through development of analysis, recommendations, and reporting.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce governance standards, policies, and best practices across the enterprise.
• Support the development and maintenance of enterprise governance frameworks, reference development documentation, and technical user guidelines.
• Measure and report on governance effectiveness through defined metrics and KPIs.
• Assess technology risks from an architectural perspective, including obsolescence, integration complexity, and security exposures.
• Evaluate adherence to enterprise architecture standards, cloud strategies, and lifecycle requirements.
• Challenge solution designs and implementation approaches when risks are identified.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for business and technology stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, user experience, and data quality.
• Coordinate with technical stakeholders to resolve complex issues and implement enhancements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using data and industry best practices.
• Lead assessment of complex challenges by partnering across units and vendors.
• Analyze current-state processes, controls, systems, and dependencies to develop sustainable solutions.
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery and coordinate resources to achieve outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Develop business cases, roadmaps, and success metrics for strategic initiatives.
• Analyze performance data to identify trends, risks, opportunities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Governance

Risk assessment

Architecture knowledge

Communication

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Power BI

APIs

Middleware platforms

Cloud platforms

Security controls

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Business System Analyst (Governance) for remote work to partner with architecture, engineering, security, and risk teams. The role focuses on governance, program oversight, and enterprise standards across technology solutions.

You will assess architectures, data flows, and controls, driving improvements in resiliency, security, and maintainability while supporting governance forums and reporting.