Business Architect Lead-AML/sanctions

Why USAA?

Let’s do something that really matters.
At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.
We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!
We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Charlotte, NC, or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Applies technical skills and deep business knowledge to increase strategy to execution alignment. Reduces risk of strategy divergence by influencing, and partnering with, business leaders in course of action translation. Facilitates and guides cross-functional teams to systemically align business strategies and technology investments. Sets architecture strategy and governance for the integrated business ecosystem based on decision needs of strategy and business leaders. Supports the organization's long-range planning and portfolio prioritization processes, and some management reviews of implemented plans

The Opportunity

What you'll do:

• Provides overall direction and guidance on the Business Architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
• Partners with Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives to demonstrate insights to inform strategic choices, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
• Designs architecture approaches, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate business executives in business strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints).
• Designs current and target state assessments, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate 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).
• Provides consultation on business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
• Serves as the primary 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.
• Drives the creation and alignment of the Business Architecture framework, governing principles, and standard methodologies.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in the development of the Business Architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
• Provides business and technical mentorship to create and maintain role consistency and build the talent pipeline.
• Stays updated on industry trends and standard methodologies 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.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 8 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.
• 4 years of hands-on experience developing Business Architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
• Proven experience designing unique 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).
• Expert 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.
• Advanced 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.

What sets you apart:

• Act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
• Reduces risk of strategy divergence by influencing, and partnering with, business leaders in course of action translation.
• Captures the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
• ACAMS or other relevant designation.
• US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner [optional]

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.

What we offer:

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. The salary range for this position is: $120,550 - $230.440.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

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, please 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.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.