Business Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various healthcare business scenarios and organizational motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing key enterprise views, including strategy, capability, value stream, and organizational perspectives.
• Capture tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and map to metrics that enable ongoing governance.
• Define strategic, core, and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries.
• Identify external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business, and describe associated people, resources, and controls.
• Capture relationships among roles, capabilities, and business units, including decomposition of business units into subunits and documentation of internal or external management structures.
• Develop and maintain business architecture artifacts, including capability models, process flows, business context diagrams, and value-stream maps.
• Collaborate with IT architects, program managers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment between business strategy and technology initiatives.
• Support enterprise governance activities by providing architecture analysis, recommendations, and documentation in support of decision-making.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise or business architecture deliverables in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization.
• Proficiency with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF).
• Experience developing business architecture artifacts including capability models, process models, and organizational maps.
• Familiarity with modeling notations such as BPMN, ArchiMate, or UML.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex information and identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities.
• Proficiency with architecture modeling tools (e.g., Sparx EA, BiZZdesign, or similar).
• Understanding of healthcare IT environments, including electronic health record (EHR) systems, clinical workflows, and health information exchange.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce executive-level presentations and technical documentation.