Business Architect (Enterprise) - TA171

1. Supports Business Strategy Formulation

• Analyzes the organization's strategy and how the organization currently approaches innovation and monetization.
• Facilitates business strategy development, including economic and political analysis, opportunity identification, technology and business cases, and business innovation portfolio development along with operating model development
• Engages key business stakeholders to identify business and technology innovation opportunities that enable and drive business strategy. Focuses on growing revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks.

2. Builds and Maintains Relationships

• Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.

3. Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
• Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.

Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.

• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.

Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.

• Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.

4. Facilitates Innovation

• Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
• Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
• Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

5. Plans and Manages the IT Portfolio

• Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

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