Business Architect

Do you want to help shape the future of USRM by translating strategy into action – driving strategic business capability evolution, influencing product and technology roadmaps, and unlocking value across complex systems? This role sits at the intersection of strategy, product, and technology, empowering leaders to make smarter, capability-driven investment decisions.

As a Business Architect reporting to Kyle Renaud, Director, Business Architecture you will be responsible for interpreting and contextualizing strategy as well as providing clear, actionable recommendations for both business and technology initiatives in line with organizational goals. You will play a key role in advancing our North Star Journey & Capability Framework – our approach to connecting strategy to execution - ensuring it is actionable and consumable across Business, Product, and Engineering teams. Develop, evolve, and maintain specific artifacts such as business capability maps and value streams to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Work closely with Sr. Directors and Directors of Product Owners, Technology leaders, and business teams to influence roadmaps and how they align to enterprise business capability framework. Assess existing business capabilities and processes for opportunities to rationalize and optimize. Recognized as a thought leader within discipline who influences decisions made by senior leadership and advances the craft of business architecture within our organization.

**This position may have in-office requirements dependent upon candidate location**

Responsibilities:

• Provides thought leadership to business stakeholders, Experience and Technology partners in building & cultivating a forward-looking business capability map based on the strategic priorities of the organization.
• Drive roadmaps capturing the sequencing of capability driven investment allocations, aligned technology needs, tradeoffs and simplification opportunities across different portfolios based on value
• Simplify our business environment by identifying how efforts across functions fit together and via identification of shared capabilities between processes and business units.
• Collaborates with technology and product leaders to develop a strong understanding of the capabilities they support.
• Work both independently and as part of a team as you manage a portfolio of projects with go-to-market focused and cross-go-to-market and/or enterprise impact.
• Provides updates to manager and collaborates with manager regarding highly complex matters requiring escalation.

The ideal candidate will have

• Knowledge of business capability and value stream usage among other business architecture tools