Sr Manager - Enterprise Business Architect

Energy Transfer•Houston, TX

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Business Architect Lead is responsible for establishing and leading the business architecture discipline at Energy Transfer. This role translates enterprise strategy into operating model design, capability frameworks, and platform governance — ensuring that technology investments, process transformations, and organizational changes are aligned to long-term business outcomes. The Business Architect Lead serves as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology leaders across the enterprise transformation portfolio including CLM, data applications, and future platform decisions. This is a foundational, build-from-scratch role that requires both the ability to establish the discipline and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience
10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise transformation, or management consulting
Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing a business architecture function or practice
Expertise in capability modeling, value stream mapping, business process architecture, and operating model design
Strong executive stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Experience with enterprise platform implementations and governance
Proficiency with architecture or process tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, Visio, ARIS, or equivalent)

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree
TOGAF or BIZBOK certification
Experience in energy, midstream, or industrial sector
Background in management consulting (Big 4, boutique strategy, or equivalent)
Familiarity with CLM, ERP, or enterprise content management platforms

Responsibilities

Establish Energy Transfer's business architecture practice including frameworks, tools, and standards
Define and maintain the enterprise capability model, value stream maps, and business process architecture
Govern platform and technology investment decisions from a business architecture perspective
Ensure alignment between business capabilities, processes, data, and enabling technology across transformation programs
Partner with senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into operating model changes
Design future-state operating models for key business domains undergoing transformation
Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and improvement opportunities across the enterprise
Support M&A integration planning by providing operating model analysis and architecture inputs
Provide architectural oversight for enterprise platforms including CLM (Agiloft), data applications, and others
Define standards for platform ownership, product governance, and lifecycle management
Advise on build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions from a business capability standpoint
Partner with IT to ensure business and technical architectures remain aligned
Serve as a trusted advisor to VPs, Directors, and functional leaders across the enterprise
Facilitate business architecture workshops to surface current-state challenges and inform future-state design
Communicate complex architecture concepts in clear, business-facing language
Build an internal business architecture community of practice over time