Director Business Architect

Prologis • Cerritos, CA

12d • $165,000 - $249,000

About The Position

The Business Architecture role is part of Prologis’ Transformation & Operational Excellence function and supports company-wide strategic transformation across Leasing, Customer Logistics & Development, Essentials, Energy, and Data. The role translates strategic intent into actionable business architecture, including OKRs, roadmaps, capabilities, processes, data, operating models, and organizational design. It partners with business-line leaders, FP&A, IT/Data, transformation teams, and customer executives to create a coherent enterprise view supporting cross-business integration and value delivery. The position also identifies opportunities for automation, orchestration, and AI-enabled services, connecting architecture decisions to measurable business outcomes.

The role develops and maintains enterprise business architecture artifacts and standards, aligns business architecture with technology, financial planning, operating models, decision rights, and governance, and facilitates senior stakeholder discussions to connect architectural change with business outcomes. It builds analytical cases for capability decisions, advises on program sequencing, and engages customer executives and technical leaders on transformation priorities and architecture roadmaps.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, operating model design, or a related transformation discipline.
• Demonstrated experience building business capability models and operating model blueprints adopted and used by business stakeholders.
• Experience connecting architecture decisions to financial and organizational outcomes, including KPIs, cost structures, and financial planning.
• Experience partnering with enterprise transformation or PMO functions to translate strategy into executable initiatives.
• Ability to facilitate senior stakeholder discussions and drive alignment across competing priorities in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to connect business drivers, technology architecture, customer needs, and transformation roadmaps into clear recommendations.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with business architecture frameworks and modeling approaches, including BIZBOK or the TOGAF business layer.
• Experience in real estate, logistics, supply chain, industrial, or related sectors.
• Exposure to cloud and architecture platforms or frameworks such as AWS, Azure, GCP, TOGAF, or equivalent.
• Exposure to DevSecOps, automation, observability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, APIs, or AIOps.
• Experience with digital transformation consulting, customer journey design, business case development, innovation management, or large-account solution architecture.
• Willingness and capability to leverage emerging technology, automation, and AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and speed.
• Sound judgment, creative thinking, and accountability for outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an enterprise business capability model across Prologis business lines, identifying overlaps, gaps, dependencies, and opportunities affecting cross-business customer penetration.
• Translate strategic priorities into architecture artifacts, including capability maps, value streams, operating model blueprints, current- and future-state diagrams, customer journeys, and enterprise architecture views.
• Partner with FP&A, IT/Data, business-line leaders, and transformation teams to align business architecture with technology architecture, financial planning, operating models, decision rights, and governance.
• Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders to map current-state work, define future-state needs, establish capability-level KPIs, and connect architectural change to outcomes such as permanent cost reduction, customer penetration, and cycle time.
• Build analytical cases for capabilities to build, buy, integrate, or retire; advise program leads on sequencing; and contribute to business cases through cost modeling, risk assessment, and margin optimization.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, taxonomies, repositories, templates, naming conventions, configuration baselines, and governance practices that preserve decision history and support consistent adoption.
• Engage customer executives and technical leaders to understand business and IT transformation priorities, identify automation and AI opportunities, and present architecture roadmaps, risks, achievements, and priorities during business reviews.

Benefits

• Healthcare insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• Dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• Vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match of 50% up to 12% of eligible compensation
• PTO with a starting accrual of 22 days per year
• Paid holidays
• Volunteer time
• Wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed