Enterprise Business Architect
Job Description
Job DescriptionJob Title: Enterprise Business Architect
Location: Onsite in Buffalo, NY
Hire Type: Contingent Contract / Full Time
Hourly Rate: $95 - 100/hour (DOE)
Work Model: Hybrid schedule
Contact Recruiter: Amanda Neudeck – aneudeck@imaginegroup.com No C2C, C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfer available for this role Nature & Scope/Positional Overview: A visionary Business Architect to serve as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value. A strategic thinker with strong business and technology translation expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving innovation in the financial sector. Role establishes clarity on What the business is trying to achieve (strategy and outcomes), How value is delivered (value streams), and What the business must be able to do (capabilities).
Role & Responsibility/ Tasks That Will Lead To Your Success
- Strategy Alignment - Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps. Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcome
- Business Architecture Modeling - Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models. Define current-state and target-state business architectures
- Transformation & Investment Guidance - Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value. Support portfolio planning and initiative prioritization
- Enterprise Analysis & Design - Assess business processes, structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency. Define business-driven requirements for transformation efforts
- Stakeholder Engagement - Partner with executives, product teams, EA, and delivery teams. Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders
- Governance & Standards - Establish and enforce business architecture standards and frameworks. Ensure traceability from strategy through execution
- Cross-Architecture Alignment - Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align designs. Ensuring business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions
Skills that will Lead To Your Success:
- Strategic thinking and business model design
- Capability modeling and value stream mapping
- Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
- Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
- Problem-solving and structured decision-making
- Financial and investment analysis; business case, prioritization
- Influence without authority across complex organizations
- Visualization and modeling; capability maps, operating models
- Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
- Capabilities, value streams, organization, information mapping
- Enterprise architecture frameworks; TOGAF, FEAPO
Education and Experience Requirements:
- BS degree in Business, Technology, or IT related field
- 10 years’ experience in IT architecture, strategy, consulting, and transformation roles
- Demonstrated experience building business architecture artifacts; capability maps, value streams, operating models
- Project experience working in large, complex enterprises
- Certified Business Architect (CBA®) – Business Architecture Guild
- TOGAF or equivalent EA certification
Education and Experience Preferences:
- Master’s Degree in Business, Technology, or IT related field
- Banking or financial services experience
- Certifications: TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AI/ML specialty certifications.
- Practical experience with model risk governance (SR 117), OCC guidance, and related financial services regulatory frameworks