Director Business Architect

Prologis • Nashville, TN

19h • $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 that supports cross-business integration and value delivery. The role also identifies opportunities for automation, orchestration, and AI-enabled services while connecting architecture decisions to measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

• 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 that were 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.
• 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an enterprise business capability model spanning Prologis business lines, identifying overlaps, gaps, dependencies, and opportunities that affect 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 senior-stakeholder workshops 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 the analytical case 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
• Starting PTO accrual of 22 days per year
• Paid holidays
• Volunteer time
• Wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits
• Bonus target and long-term incentives as part of the compensation package

What This Job Offers

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