Strategic Enterprise Architect: Roadmaps & Transformation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Enterprise Business Architect in the United States to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes and artifacts. You will build investment roadmaps, assess capabilities and create future-state models aligning business goals with technology.

You will lead cross-functional workshops, establish standards, and collaborate with architects to drive enterprise-wide transformation, while supporting data-driven investment decisions.

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.

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 andgovernance 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

Workshop facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

ServiceNow

YouDesign

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Enterprise Business Architect in the United States to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes and artifacts. You will build investment roadmaps, assess capabilities and create future-state models aligning business goals with technology.

You will lead cross-functional workshops, establish standards, and collaborate with architects to drive enterprise-wide transformation, while supporting data-driven investment decisions.