Business Architect Senior

USAA•Chesapeake, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a dedicated Business Architect, you will be supporting the Property & Casualty Portfolio Management Office, you will play a pivotal role in delivering our organizational strategy, driving the successful execution of initiatives, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. In this role you will apply deep business knowledge and technical skills to increase strategy to execution alignment, set architecture strategy and governance for the holistic business ecosystem, guide cross-functional teams to systemically align business strategies and technology investments, and support portfolio planning, prioritization, and execution readiness processes. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree: OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Minimum 6 years’ 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.
Minimum 2 years’ 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.

Nice To Haves

Prior U.S. military service or being a military spouse/domestic partner is highly valued.
3+ years working in property and casualty insurance industry
Experience working with business partners in targeted conversations for early clarification of strategic intent and target state
Experience conducting various business architecture tasks in collaboration with PMO practices and methods (e.g., waterfall, SAFe/Agile)
Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and sustaining ongoing business architectural artifacts and decision support to optimize value creation
Consistent track record of thinking, crafting and implementing solutions with a systems-thinking, member-centric approach
Exceptional verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills to effectively convey insights to diverse audiences, including senior leadership

Responsibilities

Provide direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
Support 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.
Execute business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
Translate/decompose/deconstruct and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives.
Contribute 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 (i.e., capability-based planning).
Apply and utilize business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
Serve as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
Facilitate, negotiate, and represent business' interests in maturation and investment in business architecture.
Facilitate the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
Contribute to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.