Senior Business Architect

American Engineering Testing Inc•Saint Paul, MN

11h•$95,000 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Architect is a senior individual contributor in AET’s Strategy and Growth function, reporting to the VP of Strategy and Growth. The role owns the business process design for AET’s strategic plan and partners with IT to turn that design into working systems. It connects decisions made by the Senior Leadership Team, functional workstreams, and IT teams and vendors supporting AET’s multi-year enterprise transformation. The position defines how company strategy is translated into processes, capabilities, and technology, and helps keep the transformation program on track. The work includes designing future-state processes, partnering with IT on technology enablement and implementations, maintaining program plans and governance, and facilitating cross-functional alignment. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field, and at least eight years of experience in business architecture, business analysis, transformation, or strategy execution, including significant IT partnership on system or process change. The compensation range is $95,000 to $130,000 per year. The position follows a hybrid work schedule under AET’s hybrid work policy, provided daily responsibilities do not require onsite presence. Candidates must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer without current or future visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
Eight or more years of experience in business architecture, business analysis, transformation, or strategy execution, including significant time partnering with IT on system or process change.
Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise system implementation, such as ERP, project management, or CRM, from requirements through go-live.
Experience leading vendor evaluations and selection.
Proficiency in process and workflow modeling and requirements documentation tools.
Ability to translate accurately between business and technical language.
Ability to elicit stakeholder needs, design and defend solutions, and facilitate productive working sessions.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams, identify risks or misalignment, communicate clearly, build trust across functions and levels, adapt to shifting priorities, and maintain attention to detail.
Authorization to work for any employer in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Experience in professional services, engineering, or project-based organizations.

Responsibilities

Own future-state process and capability design for Road to 2030 initiatives.
Document current-state processes and design future-state workflows, identifying opportunities to standardize, simplify, or automate.
Set business architecture standards for initiative teams, including process-mapping conventions, requirements templates, and design documentation.
Identify incomplete, conflicting, or unclear design decisions and drive them to resolution before implementation is affected.
Define data and reporting requirements behind program KPIs.
Serve as the primary business-side partner to IT leadership on transformation-related technology, translating business processes into actionable technology outcomes.
Co-own the business-to-technology roadmap with IT, sequencing process automation, replacement, and integration.
Lead requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, and working sessions, and produce detailed requirements for IT teams and vendors.
Act as business design authority on system implementations by reviewing and signing off on solution designs, defining acceptance criteria, and confirming that solutions reflect requirements.
Identify gaps between requirements and delivered solutions and work with IT to resolve them before go-live.
Lead vendor evaluations, including scoring criteria, demonstrations, fit-gap analysis, and recommendations to the Senior Leadership Team.
Maintain the integrated program roadmap, initiative work plans, dependency log, and RAID log across active Road to 2030 initiatives.
Partner with initiative leads to keep work plans current and realistic and track progress against milestones.
Surface risks and dependencies early and escalate proactively.
Define project management templates, standards, and operating rhythms for initiative teams.
Document design decisions, scope changes, and key outcomes throughout the program lifecycle.
Support monthly program updates, executive briefings, and Board-level materials with the VP of Strategy and Growth.
Design and facilitate cross-functional working sessions, including readiness reviews, workstream integration sessions, and decision-making forums.
Coordinate the cross-initiative governance calendar, including agendas, materials, summaries, and decision tracking.
Maintain the readiness inventory and gate criteria across functional areas, validating progress with business and IT leaders.
Ensure initiative owners with dependencies have the forums, information, and structured conversations needed to stay aligned.