Business Architect

Business Architect 

Location: Remote 

As a Business Architect at TSPi, you will be a strategic leader with a deep understanding of business operations, enterprise architecture, out-of-the-box platforms such as Pega, PCFG (Pega Cloud for Government), and AWS (Amazon Web Services) solutions. You will partner with business leaders, architects in multiple domains, and IT teams to define and deliver business capabilities aligned with the organization's goals. Your expertise in business process modeling and architecture frameworks will help bridge the gap between business strategy and technology, driving operational efficiency and innovation. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Enterprise Strategy Alignment: Collaborate with senior leadership to define business strategies and ensure alignment of priorities and the use of technology solutions that align with organizational goals.
• Capability Mapping: Ensure proposed architecture aligns with business capabilities that can be leveraged, ensuring solutions are scalable and aligned with strategic objectives. Assist leadership and government subject matter experts with capability mapping as needed. Research with system architects, solution architecture and enterprise architecture to clarify if existing solutions/technologies already exist to avoid duplication or recommend solutions.
• Business Process Architecture: Lead business process mapping efforts, analyzing and documenting processes to optimize workflows and identify automation opportunities. Assist with redesign when necessary.
• Solution Design Collaboration: Work closely with architects, developers, and stakeholders to design and implement cloud and low code/no-code-based solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Understand systems and technical architecture that can enable business strategies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a liaison between business units and technology teams, managing stakeholder expectations, helping facilitate change, and ensuring alignment on business goals and project deliverables.
• Roadmap Development: Assist leadership in developing roadmaps to support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts. Work with product management to ensure capabilities and integration opportunities exist for new feature development.
• Documentation and Governance: Create comprehensive business architecture artifacts, functional specifications, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and quality across projects.
• Change Management: Support organizational change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and solutions.
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework): Apply SAFe concepts and practices and support the continuous learning culture.
  • Participate in PI Planning and support teams in how to best optimize value delivery and align within the ART (Agile Release Train).
  • Help teams understand the importance of and how to prioritize enablers brought from Portfolio or Solution levels.
  • Support the development product manager and development product owner in identifying and refining Epics and Stories (most often enablers, but also may assist with business-focused items).
• Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate with solution management, development product management, teams, government partners, system architects in other architecture domains (e.g. security, application/technical, data), shared services (e.g. DevSecOps, test automation), and trains within the Conservation Solution train) to:
  • Align with shared vision/Planning Increment roadmap
  • Prioritize and align business needs and enabler efforts supporting cross-cutting concerns needing architectural runway
  • Communicate solution intent and solution context to the ART.
• Help identify dependencies and assist the Solution Manager with refinement of cross-train dependencies.
• Gain knowledge of the business context and solution needs.

Required Skills and Qualifications 

• Business Architecture Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in business architecture or business analysis and design, with a focus on complex enterprise-level solutions and transformation initiatives.
• Out-of-the-Box Technology Solutioning & Integrations: understanding of capabilities within and experience with integration of and implementation in Pega platform or other out-of-the-box technologies.
• Cloud Platform Knowledge: Familiarity with Pega Cloud for Government and/or AWS solutions and services, with the ability to align cloud-based solutions with business needs.
• Process Analysis and Optimization: Proven experience analyzing, documenting and optimizing business processes using clear modeling and graphical representations for business and technical consumption, to define paths to improve efficiency and drive innovation.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with business leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Proficiency in analyzing data and using insights to inform strategy and decision-making.
• Project and Change Management: Understanding of project management methodologies and change management principles to support successful delivery of business initiatives.

Preferred Skills 

• Architecture Frameworks: Experience with industry-standard business architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Agile Experience: Experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework development methodology, minimally working within other Agile environments.
• Business Intelligence (BI): Knowledge of BI tools and techniques to support performance measurement and data-driven insights.
• Organizational Design: Experience in aligning solutions and Agile implementations to organizational structure with business capabilities and strategic goals.
• Certifications: SAFe, Pega Business Architect or other Pega platform certification, AWS or Pega Cloud for Government.

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent job-related experience).
• Clearance Required: Public Trust 
• Citizenship: US Citizen or Permanent Resident Alien with at least three or more years of U.S. residency from the date of legal entry to the U.S