Strategic Enterprise Architect: Capabilities & Transformation

Lincoln Motor Company; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision plans

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid holidays

Paid time off and community service

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks an Enterprise Business Architect to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes, roadmaps and artifacts. You will align capabilities to strategic initiatives, lead workshops, and drive enterprise-wide transformation.

With 7+ years in architecture or consulting, you will build capability models and governance, collaborate across teams, and mentor learning pathways while shaping future-state investment strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture, strategy or management consulting.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (i.e. ServiceNow, YouDesign, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Proven experience developing capability models, value stream maps and target operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to assess capabilities, analyze findings and deliver recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills to assess current-state processes and identify inefficiencies, gaps and redundancies.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business strategy into actionable roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience leading workshops and interviews to gather requirements and build stakeholder consensus.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects.
• Experience establishing governance processes and architecture standards across an enterprise.
• Strong communication and change management skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Business acumen to link capabilities to strategic initiatives and evaluate risks, dependencies and value drivers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into actionable capability maps, value streams and target operating models.
• Build and maintain enterprise capability models to uncover gaps, redundancies and investment opportunities.
• Analyze current-state business processes and organizational structures to identify inefficiencies and drive improvements.
• Provide input into the design of future-state business architectures including process redesign, organizational realignment and capability roadmaps.
• Lead workshops and interviews with business unit leaders, subject matter experts and technology teams to gather requirements and build consensus on architectural direction.
• Establish and maintain business architecture standards / frameworks and governance processes for enterprise-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects to align business architecture with IT architecture and solution design.
• Support investment planning by linking business capabilities to strategic initiatives and identifying dependencies, risks and value drivers.
• Drive adoption of new business models by communicating architectural vision and rationale to stakeholders across all levels.
• Curate, organize and maintain learning content to support enterprise architecture learning pathways and employee development.

Skills

Capability maps

Value streams

Target operating models

TOGAF

BIZBOK

Architecture standards

Stakeholder alignment

Workshop facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

YouDesign

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks an Enterprise Business Architect to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes, roadmaps and artifacts. You will align capabilities to strategic initiatives, lead workshops, and drive enterprise-wide transformation.

With 7+ years in architecture or consulting, you will build capability models and governance, collaborate across teams, and mentor learning pathways while shaping future-state investment strategies.