Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The VP, Business Architecture is a hands-on senior leader within the Transformation & Delivery Office who works across business and technology domains to help ensure systems are designed in a thoughtful, scalable, and effective way.

This role operates as an internal consultant, stepping into programs and projects that need design support, structure, and business architecture guidance. The leader translates business strategy, operating needs, and delivery objectives into clear business architecture recommendations, system interaction models, and design choices that improve the quality of solutions over time. This person is accountable for helping teams make sound decisions about where business logic should reside, which platforms should be used for which capabilities, and when a tactical approach is appropriate versus when a more strategic solution is warranted.

The ideal candidate brings strong judgment, broad systems thinking, and a practical, execution-oriented approach to helping teams solve complex design problems.

*The title and career band/level for this position are flexible based on the candidate's experience.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture Support

• Provide direct business architecture support to strategic programs and projects that require help with solution design, system interaction modeling, and business logic placement.
• Step into complex initiatives as a hands-on advisor to help teams work through ambiguity, structure design decisions, and improve solution quality.
• Act as an internal consultant to program, product, and technology teams on business architecture questions that cut across systems, functions, and domains.
• Help teams move from high-level business goals to practical, well-structured solution approaches.

Business Capability & System Design

• Translate complex business objectives into clear business architecture recommendations that define system interactions, business workflows, capability ownership, and process support.
• Help determine how business processes should be enabled across platforms, including where key decisions, rules, data handling, and workflow steps should occur.
• Guide teams in shaping solutions that are efficient, scalable, and aligned to broader business and platform objectives.
• Ensure business design decisions support both near-term delivery needs and long-term flexibility.

Business Logic Placement & Platform Decisioning

• Advise teams on where different aspects of business logic should reside across platforms and systems.
• Help determine when a capability belongs in a core strategic platform versus when a tactical solution is sufficient.
• Evaluate trade-offs between speed, complexity, maintainability, cost, control, and long-term platform health.
• Promote thoughtful design choices that reduce duplication, fragmented workflows, and inconsistent system behavior.
• Help the organization make better decisions about what systems should do what work and why.

Strategic and Tactical Solution Guidance

• Provide practical guidance on when tactical solutions are appropriate to meet immediate business needs and when more strategic design is necessary.
• Help teams balance delivery urgency with sound long-term architecture decisions.
• Identify where short-term design choices may introduce future complexity, risk, or rework.
• Support sequencing decisions that allow the organization to meet business goals while progressing toward a more strategic target state.

Cross-Functional Design Collaboration

• Partner closely with business analysis, business systems support, program delivery, product, technology, and enterprise architecture teams to align business design with technical execution.
• Facilitate design discussions that connect business intent, operational needs, platform constraints, and long-term strategy.
• Help resolve ambiguity when multiple systems, teams, or domains are involved in delivering a business capability.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner on difficult design decisions that span organizational and technical boundaries.

Design Quality & Governance Support

• Contribute business architecture input into design reviews, trade-off discussions, and key program decisions.
• Help assess whether proposed solutions fit business capability needs, architectural principles, and target-state direction.
• Improve the consistency and quality of design decisions by bringing structured thinking and practical judgment into complex initiatives.
• Support transparency into architecture choices, rationale, and implications for future delivery and platform evolution.

Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Develop practical templates, reference patterns, and guidance that help teams apply stronger business architecture thinking.
• Coach teams on business capability design, system interaction patterns, and business logic placement.
• Identify recurring design issues and help create reusable approaches that improve future work.
• Continuously seek opportunities to simplify the systems landscape and improve how business needs are translated into solution design.

Requisition #: 34337

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