Strategic Portfolio Architect & Business Capability Lead

Federal Express Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a seasoned Business Architect to align business requirements with enterprise architecture, focusing on value streams, capabilities, and stakeholder alignment. This role collaborates across units to map business strategies to IT initiatives and uses UML modeling to illustrate complex systems.

The candidate will work in a hybrid environment across US sites, engaging in capability health assessments and transformation initiatives to enable data-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, operations research, computer science, or related quantitative discipline.
• Two years' directly related experience.
• Knowledge of the Business Architecture Guild (BIZBOK), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other architectural frameworks.
• Strong knowledge and experience in the creation of UML class diagrams.
• Strong understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies.
• Experience as a member of multi-functional project teams.

Responsibilities

• Engages with requirements analysts to address the root cause of capability gaps and to move the capability toward its future state.
• Aligns business requirements to the business vocabulary defined within the business architecture body of knowledge.
• Communicates business strategy and the desired value delivery and capability outcomes.
• Advises executives on available options to satisfy customer demand during decision making using the business architecture.
• Actively collaborates with Solution Architects through capability mapping to application architecture to provide business and IT with a concise set of conceptual business/IT mappings that can be driven down to a significant degree of detail and, as a result, provide insights into design, transformation, modernization, and automation options.
• Involved in the creation and utilization of standardized architectural communications and templates.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

UML class diagrams

Architecture modeling

BizBOK

TOGAF

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, operations research, computer science

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

IRIS Business Architect

Job description

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a seasoned Business Architect to align business requirements with enterprise architecture, focusing on value streams, capabilities, and stakeholder alignment. This role collaborates across units to map business strategies to IT initiatives and uses UML modeling to illustrate complex systems.

The candidate will work in a hybrid environment across US sites, engaging in capability health assessments and transformation initiatives to enable data-driven