The Enterprise Business Architect Lead establishes and leads the business architecture discipline at Energy Transfer. This role translates enterprise strategy into operating model design, capability frameworks, and platform governance, ensuring technology investments, process transformations, and organizational changes align with long-term business outcomes.

The Business Architect Lead serves as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology leaders across the enterprise transformation portfolio, including CLM, data applications, and future platform decisions. This is a foundational, build-from-scratch role that requires both the ability to establish the discipline and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Governance
• Establish business architecture practice, including frameworks, tools, and standards
• Define and maintain the enterprise capability model, value stream maps, and business process architecture
• Govern platform and technology investment decisions from a business architecture perspective
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, processes, data, and enabling technology across transformation programs

Strategic Operating Model Design
• Partner with senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into operating model changes
• Design future-state operating models for key business domains undergoing transformation
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and improvement opportunities across the enterprise
• Support M&A integration planning by providing operating model analysis and architecture inputs

Platform & Product Governance
• Provide architectural oversight for enterprise platforms including CLM (Agiloft), data applications, and others
• Define standards for platform ownership, product governance, and lifecycle management
• Advise on build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions from a business capability standpoint
• Partner with IT to ensure business and technical architectures remain aligned

Stakeholder Engagement & Community Building
• Serve as a trusted advisor to VPs, Directors, and functional leaders across the enterprise
• Facilitate business architecture workshops to surface current-state challenges and inform future-state design
• Communicate complex architecture concepts in clear, business-facing language
• Build an internal business architecture community of practice over time

Requirements:

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:
• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise transformation, or management consulting
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing a business architecture function or practice
• Expertise in capability modeling, value stream mapping, business process architecture, and operating model design
• Strong executive stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience with enterprise platform implementations and governance
• Proficiency with architecture or process tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, Visio, ARIS, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications
• MBA or advanced degree
• TOGAF or BIZBOK certification
• Experience in energy, midstream, or industrial sector
• Background in management consulting (Big 4, boutique strategy, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with CLM, ERP, or enterprise content management platforms

Key Competencies
• Systems thinking and strategic operating model design
• Executive communication and executive-ready visualization
• Organizational influence without direct authority
• Platform governance and business-technology alignment
• Ability to build structure and discipline in ambiguous environments

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Usually, normal office working conditions.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing.
• Occasional overnight travel may be required.