Business Architect

Details•Blacksburg, VA

14h

About The Position

Virginia Tech seeks a dynamic Business Architect to foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that drives meaningful change across our institution. In this role, you will develop and document the business architecture, proactively guiding transformation and optimization efforts in higher education. Leveraging practical expertise in business process design and reengineering, you will ensure the alignment of strategic goals with operational processes, creating efficiencies and advancing institutional effectiveness. Join us in shaping a progressive future for Virginia Tech and making a lasting impact in higher education. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or related field or a combination of education, training, and experience that equates to a Master’s degree.
Significant experience in developing business capability models.
Significant experience in capturing current-state business processes, designing future-state business processes to meet strategic objectives.
Significant experience in identifying organizational unit competencies to perform processes/tasks.
Significant experience in associating applications and application functionality to business processes. Significant experience in identifying unique flow and structure of organizational processes and units, resulting in custom application development.
Significant experience in capturing dataflows required for successful execution of business processes.
Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business capabilities, value streams, business processes, and organizational structures.
Knowledge of EA tools (preferably Bizzdesign Horizzon) to develop business architecture deliverables, and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage business and technical stakeholders at all levels.
Experience with change management of process, organizational structure and technology, with a focus on minimizing customization of applications, workflows, integrations and metadata.
Demonstrated the following critical competencies: strategic thinking, strong communication skills to facilitate collaboration amongst stakeholders, stakeholder management.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Higher Education operations, structures and information technology landscape such as teaching and learning management system, and research administration management systems.
Experience leading cross-functional teams in large-scale business transformation.
Knowledge of Business Architecture framework (BIZBOK) and Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
Certified in Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture.
Knowledge of Decision Model and Notation (DMN).
Knowledge of organization change management.