Enterprise Architect Sr (Business Solutions Architect)

PNC Bank•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As an Enterprise Architect Sr., within PNC's Technology organization, you can be based in Pittsburgh PA, Strongsville OH, Birmingham AL, Phoenix AZ, Dallas TX or Denver CO. PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position. The Enterprise Business Architect Senior collaborates with business and technology leaders across the enterprise to create and maintain the business architecture artifacts that connect strategy, capabilities, investments, and technology decisions. The objective of this role is to establish a clear business architecture foundation that enables strategic planning, portfolio rationalization, transformation roadmaps, and enterprise decision-making. This role serves as a key partner to business leaders, enterprise architects, solution architects, and technology stakeholders to ensure initiatives are aligned to business outcomes and enterprise priorities. This senior-level role requires strategic thinking, relationship management, facilitation, and analysis skills to guide stakeholders through business capability assessments, operating model discussions, target-state development, and transformation planning. This role operates within a TOGAF-oriented Enterprise Architecture practice responsible for defining and maintaining business architecture artifacts, supporting architecture governance processes, and providing guidance from strategic planning through execution.

Requirements

TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience.
Experience defining and implementing business architecture practices within large, complex organizations.
Experience facilitating strategic planning, operating model assessments, or transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to engage senior leaders and influence enterprise-wide decisions.
Enterprise systems thinking and strong understanding of capability-based planning.
Strategic thinking with the ability to connect business objectives to technology investments.
Experience supporting large-scale transformation programs.
Experience developing business capabilities, value streams, operating models, and target-state architectures.
Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
Ability to influence decision-making without direct authority.
Experience in financial services organizations is preferred.
Familiarity with AI-enabled business transformation and cloud-enabled operating models.
Hands-on experience performing Business Architecture within a TOGAF or TOGAF-like Enterprise Architecture framework.
Strong understanding of baseline and target-state architectures, gap analysis, and transition planning.
Experience developing capability maps, value streams, business taxonomies, and operating models.
Experience working within formal architecture governance processes.
Ability to translate complex business strategies into actionable architecture outcomes.
Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
Proven ability to drive alignment across multiple stakeholder groups.
Business capability mapping and assessment
Value stream modeling
Operating model design
Strategic planning and transformation roadmaps
Business process and organizational analysis
Portfolio rationalization and investment planning
Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
Enterprise architecture methods and governance
Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
Bachelors
Industry relevant experience is typically 8+ years.
In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Certifications in TOGAF, BIZBOK, SAFe, Business Architecture Guild, or related disciplines are desirable but not required.
Business Architecture, Competitive Advantages, Customer Solutions, Design, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Machine Learning (ML), Risk Assessments, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Technical Knowledge, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Decision Making and Critical Thinking, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise IT Architecture, Industry Knowledge, IT Architecture, Organizational Leadership, Service Oriented Architecture Technologies, Strategic Thinking, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Higher level education such as a Masters degree, PhD, or certifications is desirable.
Specific certifications are often required.

Responsibilities

Develop business architecture strategies that support enterprise and line-of-business objectives.
Translate strategic priorities into business capabilities, value streams, and operating model changes.
Create business architecture roadmaps that demonstrate progress toward target-state outcomes.
Establish measurable business outcomes and success criteria that guide transformation initiatives.
Evaluate strategic initiatives for alignment with enterprise goals and architectural direction.
Develop and maintain enterprise capability maps and business capability taxonomies.
Create current-state and target-state business architecture views for strategic initiatives.
Analyze business operating models and identify opportunities for optimization and simplification.
Facilitate capability-based planning and investment discussions across business and technology stakeholders.
Identify business gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
Conduct capability assessments to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities.
Support portfolio rationalization efforts through capability and business outcome analysis.
Produce business architecture recommendations supported by data, analysis, and architecture artifacts.
Define transition roadmaps that connect business priorities with technology investments.
Evaluate business impacts, dependencies, and organizational implications of major initiatives.
Partner with strategic programs and transformation initiatives to ensure alignment to business objectives.
Support the definition of future-state business models, value streams, and customer journeys.
Guide stakeholders in understanding the business implications of technology decisions.
Establish traceability between business goals, capabilities, initiatives, and outcomes.
Drive consistency in business architecture practices across enterprise transformation efforts.
Partner with business executives, product leaders, technology leaders, and architecture teams.
Collaborate with enterprise, application, data, technology, and security architects to produce integrated architecture views.
Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align stakeholders around business priorities and target states.
Serve as a trusted advisor for business architecture best practices and strategic planning activities.
Provide thought leadership and mentorship across the architecture community.
Ensure business architecture artifacts adhere to enterprise standards and methodologies.
Support architecture governance reviews by providing business context and strategic alignment analysis.
Define and maintain standards for capability mapping, value stream modeling, and business architecture documentation.
Measure progress toward strategic objectives and recommend corrective actions when needed.
Contribute to continuous improvement of the enterprise architecture practice.
Provides subject matter expertise for enterprise architecture, enterprise architecture teams, and clients.
Guides on enterprise architecture projects and business relationship management.
Creates strategic roadmaps for transitioning to target enterprise future state, in alignment with business and technology goals while analyzing client requirements and collaborating with R&D divisions to provide ongoing support.
Leads in the implementation of enterprise architecture strategies and best practices to support business objectives, while focusing on enterprise standards, processes, and methodologies.
Provides guidance to enterprise architects on defining technical service capabilities, design attributes, draft enterprise profiles and segment architecture; controls risks and solves complex issues related to enterprise architecture.
Maintains relationships with stakeholders, addresses stakeholder requirements and provides clients consultations to shape the future success of enterprise architecture while also mitigating risk.
Provides enterprise architecture support by directing teams in baseline, target and roadmap development, transition planning, system and security management and segment architecture.

Benefits

medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
dental and vision options
employee and spouse/child life insurance
short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
pension and stock purchase plans
dependent care reimbursement account
back-up child/elder care
adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
a robust wellness program with financial incentives
maternity and/or parental leave
up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.