Business Architect

Category: Architecture

Main location: United States, Virginia, Reston

Position ID:J0526-2025

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI is seeking an experienced Business Architect to support large-scale marketing and digital transformation initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role partners closely with marketing, digital, data, and technology teams to define and evolve business architecture capabilities, operational processes, and technology alignment across enterprise marketing functions.

This role is located at a client site in Reston, VA. A hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

CGI is seeking an experienced Business Architect to support large-scale marketing and digital transformation initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role partners closely with marketing, digital, data, and technology teams to define and evolve business architecture capabilities, operational processes, and technology alignment across enterprise marketing functions.

The ideal candidate will help translate business strategy and customer experience goals into scalable architectural models, process frameworks, and delivery roadmaps. This position plays a key role in shaping marketing technology ecosystems, improving operational efficiency, and driving alignment between business and technical teams in cloud-enabled environments, including AWS-based platforms and services.

The Business Architect will also support governance efforts, process optimization, agile delivery adoption, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure marketing initiatives are delivered efficiently, with clear visibility into priorities, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. 8+ years of experience in business architecture, marketing technology, digital transformation, or related disciplines
. Strong background in business architecture, digital transformation, or marketing technology environments
. Experience defining business capabilities, value streams, process models, and information flows
. Familiarity with enterprise process modeling tools such as ARIS or similar repositories
. Solid understanding of Martech ecosystems including CMS, CRM, analytics, personalization, and AI-enabled platforms
. Ability to work effectively with engineering and cloud teams supporting AWS-based solutions and modern digital platforms
. Proven experience supporting agile or product-based delivery teams in fast-paced enterprise environments
. Strong business process analysis and optimization skills, particularly around marketing operations and campaign workflows
. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including presenting to executive leadership
. Comfortable balancing multiple initiatives, priorities, and resource constraints simultaneously
. Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to influence cross-functional teams

Desired Skillset:

. Master's degree preferred
. Relevant certifications in Business Architecture, Agile, AWS, or Enterprise Architecture are considered a plus

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required

Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $108,300.00 - $172,600.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include: . Competitive compensation . Comprehensive insurance options . Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan . Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time . Paid parental leave .Learning opportunities and tuition assistance . Wellness and Well-being programs

Skills:

• Agile
• Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Business Analysis
• Business Architecture
• Communication
• Problem Solving
• Stakeholder management