Senior Business Architect & Transformation Leader

Prologis; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 165,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Prologis is seeking a Director of Business Architecture to translate strategy into actionable enterprise models across Leasing, Customer Logistics, Essentials, Energy, and Data. The role translates strategic intent into capability maps, value streams, operating models, current/future-state diagrams, and governance to enable cross‑business value delivery.

You will partner with FP&A, IT/Data, and senior leaders to connect architecture decisions to measurable outcomes, drive automation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, operating model design, or related transformation disciplines.
• Experience building capability models and operating model blueprints adopted by stakeholders.
• Experience linking architecture decisions to KPIs, cost structures and financial planning.
• Experience partnering with transformation/PMO functions to translate strategy into initiatives.
• Ability to facilitate senior stakeholder discussions and drive alignment in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to connect business drivers with technology and roadmaps into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an enterprise business capability model spanning Prologis business lines, identifying overlaps, gaps, dependencies, and opportunities that affect cross-business customer penetration.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture artifacts, including capability maps, value streams, operating model blueprints, current-state and future-state diagrams, customer journeys, and enterprise architecture views.
• Partner with FP&A, IT/Data, business-line leaders, and transformation teams to align business architecture with technology architecture, financial planning, operating models, decision rights, and governance.
• Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders to map current-state work, define future-state needs, establish capability-level KPIs, and connect architectural change to outcomes such as permanent cost reduction, customer penetration, and cycle time.
• Build the analytical case for capabilities to build, buy, integrate, or retire; advise program leads on sequencing; and contribute to business cases through cost modeling, risk assessment, and margin optimization.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, taxonomies, repositories, templates, naming conventions, configuration baselines, and governance practices that preserve decision history and support consistent adoption.
• Engage customer executives and technical leaders to understand business and IT transformation priorities, identify automation and AI opportunities, and present architecture roadmaps, risks, achievements, and priorities during business reviews.

Skills

Business architecture

Enterprise architecture

Operating model design

KPIs & performance metrics

Stakeholder management

Cost modeling

Financial planning

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

TOGAF

Job description

Prologis is seeking a Director of Business Architecture to translate strategy into actionable enterprise models across Leasing, Customer Logistics, Essentials, Energy, and Data. The role translates strategic intent into capability maps, value streams, operating models, current/future-state diagrams, and governance to enable cross‑business value delivery.

You will partner with FP&A, IT/Data, and senior leaders to connect architecture decisions to measurable outcomes, drive automation