The OpportunityTasks:- Provides direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
- Supports Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
- Executes business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
- Translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives.
- Contributes to the design of and facilitates current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (i.e., capability-based planning).
- Applies and utilizes business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
- Serves as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
- Facilitates, negotiates, and represents business' interests in the maturation and investment in business architecture.
- Facilitates the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
- Contributes to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
- Stays updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Experiences that will support your success:- 6 years of relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development.
- 2 years of hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
- Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services.
- Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile).
- Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
- Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes.
- Knowledge and application of industry standard business and enterprise architecture meta modeling, tooling, and frameworks (BIZBOK• , TOGAF• ).
- Experience in the application of business architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices.
Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.
Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.
The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.
For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.
