Strategic Business Architect — Enterprise Transformation

American Engineering Testing Inc; Saint Paul (MN); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

American Engineering Testing Inc (AET) seeks a Senior Business Architect to own the future-state process and capabilities, translating the strategy into business designs and collaborating with IT to implement systems. This senior, individual contributor role sits in Strategy and Growth.

The role supports the Road to 2030 program, aligns SLT decisions with process changes, and leads cross-functional facilitation, governance, and vendor evaluation to ensure on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in business architecture, business analysis, transformation, or strategy execution, including significant IT partnership.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise system implementation (ERP, project management, CRM, or similar).
• Experience leading vendor evaluations and selection.
• Proficiency in process and workflow modeling and requirements documentation tools.
• Preferred: experience in professional services, engineering, or project-based organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own future-state process and capability design for Road to 2030 initiatives.
• Document current-state processes and design future-state workflows.
• Set business architecture standards for initiative teams, including process-mapping conventions, requirements templates, and design documentation.
• Identify where design decisions are incomplete, conflicting, or unclear, and drive them to resolution before they affect implementation.
• Define the data and reporting requirements behind program KPIs so leadership can measure transformation outcomes.
• Serve as the primary business-side partner to IT leadership on transformation-related technology.
• Co-own the business-to-technology roadmap with IT, sequencing which processes are automated, replaced, or integrated, and when.
• Lead requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, and working sessions with subject matter experts, producing detailed requirements that IT and vendors can build against.
• Act as business design authority on system implementations: review and sign off on solution designs, define acceptance criteria, and confirm that what is built reflects what was required.
• Flag gaps between requirements and delivered solutions early, and work with IT to resolve them before go-live.
• Lead vendor evaluation end to end, including scoring criteria, demonstrations, fit-gap analysis, and a recommendation to the SLT.
• Maintain the integrated program roadmap, initiative work plans, dependency log, and RAID log across all active Road to 2030 initiatives.
• Partner with initiative leads to keep work plans current and realistic, and track progress against milestones.
• Surface risks and dependencies early and elevate proactively.
• Define the project management templates, standards, and operating rhythms initiative teams use to run their work.
• Document design decisions, scope changes, and key outcomes throughout the program lifecycle.
• Support monthly program updates, executive briefings, and Board-level materials with the VP of Strategy and Growth.
• Design and facilitate working sessions across functions, including readiness reviews and decision-making forums.
• Coordinate the cross-initiative governance calendar, including agendas and summaries.
• Maintain the readiness inventory and gate criteria across functional areas.
• Ensure initiative owners who depend on each other have the forums and information they need.

Skills

8+ years in business architecture / BA

Vendor evaluations and selection

Process and workflow modeling

Requirements documentation tools

Experience in professional services/工程

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, or related field

Tools

ERP

CRM

Project management systems

Job description

American Engineering Testing Inc (AET) seeks a Senior Business Architect to own the future-state process and capabilities, translating the strategy into business designs and collaborating with IT to implement systems. This senior, individual contributor role sits in Strategy and Growth.

The role supports the Road to 2030 program, aligns SLT decisions with process changes, and leads cross-functional facilitation, governance, and vendor evaluation to ensure on-time delivery.