Sr Business Architect

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina • Durham, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Architect plays a critical role within the portfolio and PMO ecosystem by ensuring enterprise strategy is translated into coherent, investment‑ready business capabilities, value streams, and target operating models across the health insurance enterprise. This role partners closely with Portfolio Management, Finance, Product, Operations, and Technology leaders to evaluate proposed initiatives, validate business cases, and align investments to strategic priorities, regulatory mandates, and measurable outcomes. The Senior Business Architect identifies cross‑portfolio dependencies, capability gaps, and redundancies, enabling more informed prioritization and sequencing of work. By connecting strategic intent to portfolio execution, this role strengthens governance, improves decision quality, and helps ensure the organization is investing in the right capabilities at the right time to deliver sustainable value, regulatory compliance, and improved member and provider experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
• 5+ years of experience in related field. In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience working in a consultative, advisory capacity

Responsibilities

• Facilitate participative decision making and planning workshops. Workshop participants are typically senior leaders from multiple departments.
• Provide consulting to senior and mid-level leadership on complex and/or ambiguous business problems, and advise on low-risk/high-value alternatives.
• Apply business management consulting tools to remove ambiguity, and drive data-driven decisions making and planning
• Contribute to the development of enterprise business architecture models.
• Apply strategic planning practices to translate strategies into business roadmaps and annual project portfolios
• Conduct analysis of business current and future states, performance gaps, and their root causes.
• Understand business behavior patterns and how they work together to enable the business to achieve their strategic and tactical goals.
• Monitor the business sector, industry, technology, infrastructure, legal and regulatory environment trends.
• Incorporate the consequences of these trends into actionable recommendations to internal clients.
• Influence senior business leaders in their use of business planning disciplines to achieve business goals.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with business leaders/strategy owners.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs
• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education
• 401k match including an annual company contribution

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees