Business Architect Senior

USAA•San Antonio, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

USAA's mission is to empower its members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice. The company aims to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. This role offers a fulfilling career where core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service define interactions. USAA is proud to support active-duty military spouses, with potential for remote or hybrid flexibility consistent with policy and business needs.

Requirements

6 years of relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development.
2 years of hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services.
Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile).
Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes.
Knowledge and application of industry standard business and enterprise architecture meta modeling, tooling, and frameworks (BIZBOK®, TOGAF®).
Experience in the application of business architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices.

Responsibilities

Provides direction and guidance on business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
Supports Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
Executes business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
Translates, decomposes, and deconstructs information to visualize the alignment of organizational spans and layers (strategy blueprints) with business executives.
Contributes to the design of and facilitates current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (capability-based planning).
Applies and utilizes business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
Serves as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and the extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
Facilitates, negotiates, and represents business interests in the maturation and investment in business architecture.
Facilitates the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
Contributes to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
Stays updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.