Business Enterprise Architect, Senior Principal
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Sr. Principal Business Enterprise Architect

Opportunity

The Sr. Principal Enterprise Architect is a strategic individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Director of Business Architecture. This individual will be a senior member of the Enterprise Architecture organization responsible for developing enterprise architecture strategy across the company representing the business, information, application and technology domains. The role will drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise business capability architecture blueprints and integrated roadmaps that guide our strategic investments and enterprise initiatives.

Distinguishing Characteristics

* Expert architect who champions and continuously drives the advancement of the architecture operating model, governance, processes, policies, standards, and framework for the Enterprise Architecture capability
* Creates, refines and puts into practice repeatable architecture frameworks and processes to enable complex cross-functional initiatives related to major business initiatives
* Provides vision and strategic direction for one or more architecture domains (business, information, application and technology)
* Develop and maintain strategies and solutions for the enterprise in collaboration with executive leadership across the business and IT
* Possesses the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function to critical business stakeholders

Specific Responsibilities Include:

* Responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap
* Applies expert level architecture knowledge and skills across multiple domain areas (business, information, application and technology) in driving the advancement of our corporate strategy
* Collaborates with and leads other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services
* Develops and maintains reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns and usage guidelines
* Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics
* Serves as a trusted advisor to leaders and business stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or business unit plans
* Provides comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood estimated and controlled across people, process and technology
* Collaborates with customers, vendors, industry consultants and senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance on our business strategy
* Manages the creation and maintenance of models that identify interdependencies between business units, roles, associated capabilities, and technologies
* Understanding of business process design methods and tools a plus
* Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
* Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level
* 12 years relevant business and IT experience
* 3 years of experience of working in the healthcare industry
* 5 years of architecture practice experience
* Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies
* Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence