Business Architect

We are actively seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join our team as a Business Architect. As a key player in our organization, you will be instrumental in shaping and optimizing our business processes to drive strategic initiatives and ensure seamless operations. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for transforming business processes and driving positive change, we invite you to apply and be part of our journey toward excellence.
Primary Focus:

• Meet with and interview application experts to map business capabilities to applications (initial focus).
• Perform Business Architecture modeling, including capability hierarchy and capability maps, information maps, value streams, and application-to-business capability mapping, matrices, and dashboards using the Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio tool.
• Collaborate with Business Owners, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Application Architects, Process Architects, and Data Architects to establish and validate capability mapping.
• Aggregate complex views, simplify them for a given audience and deliver essential insights required to address business challenges.
• Take an active role in enterprise portfolio investment strategies by assessing and rationalizing proposed enterprise capabilities.
• Identify business capability overlap in existing and new applications and categorize and classify capabilities and information without redundancies so this overlap can be readily identified.
• Perform administrative tasks for Bizzdesign, such as adding users to SailPoint for Single-Sign-On purposes and managing models within Bizzdesign, such as promoting project work to the enterprise catalog.

Relevant Skills/Experience/Capabilities:

• A holistic thinker with the ability to examine vast business ecosystems and deliver value across the strategy execution spectrum.
• Ability to abstract and synthesize information.
• Ability to collaborate across teams.
• Deep understanding of how to use and apply business capability maps.
• Experience using a Business Architecture tool, such as Bizzdesign, Sparx, Ardoq, etc.
• Familiarity with A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge® (BIZBOK Guide)®.
• Experience utilizing and adapting the Business Architecture Guild reference models.
• Soft skills include the following: Creative/ innovative, persuasive, commands respect, thinking “big picture” and strategically, and having a strong grasp of technology.
• Knowledge of building and gaining support for capability-based roadmaps.
• Experience with ServiceNow and Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a plus.
• Experience with defining metrics for applications to include technical and business fit and with heat mapping capabilities based on the results of the technical and business fit of the applications that are mapped to them.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, with both technical and business audiences.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote