Director, Business Architecture

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We are looking for a strategic, experienced individual for the role of Director, Enterprise Business Architecture, responsible for collaborating across business units, enterprise data, technology teams, and other key stakeholders to activate our Enterprise Business Capability (EBC) model and Business Architecture methodology in order to consistently and more effectively realize our business strategies.

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s a Director, EnterpriseBusiness Architecture, you will be part of a highly visible, strategic team focused on creating a common enterprise business language and ecosystem to integrate, connect, and visualize the key components of our business in order to unlock opportunities for reducing costs, risks & complexity and increasing alignment, speed & agility. The Business Architecture team is responsible for delivering a cross-Enterprise Business Capability blueprint that provides a common understanding of the business and transparency to the various components that enable our business capabilities in order to effectively prioritize, modernize and govern enterprise-based solutions, services, and experiences.
Functional Responsibilities:

• Define & execute the strategy for embedding and activating Business Architecture methodologies, practices and tools across the American Express enterprise.
• Expand and promote the Enterprise Business Capability (EBC) Model as the common language of “what” American Express does to create desired business outcomes and experiences.
• Drive & facilitate the right discussions with business leaders to identify and establish business capabilities, user journeys, and e2e values streams related to current and future business objectives.
• Lead a federated team to create and maintain business capability, user journey, and value stream inventories and related ecosystem components (e.g., people, process, information, technology) in order to connect, discover, and visualize how components are stitched together to deliver business outcomes and experiences.
• Collaborate with Business Capability Owners and key stakeholders (e.g., Business Process Owners, Data Owners, Technology Leads) on leveraging the American Express EBC Model to deliver value in the form of strategic realization & prioritization, transformation & solutioning, risk & compliance, etc.
• Lead, build, manage, and enhance the EBC Model along an enterprise mindset to drive maturity, optimization, & simplification of the American Express business model.
• Operationalize & drive the adoption of Business Architecture tools for connecting, discovering, and visualizing the enabling components that work together to enable business capabilities.
• Influence and collaborate with data and technology teams to incorporate Business Architecture principles and design patterns to increase consistency and operability across the enterprise.
• Determine and deliver on strategic roadmaps to build and extend business capabilities.

Competencies:

• Expertise in Enterprise Business Capability, Business Architecture, Process Excellence disciplines.
• Business thinking, enterprise mindset, and highly strategic thinker.
• Self-starter with high motivation and passion, ability to adapt to change.
• Strong leadership, confidence, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strong ability to lead and develop teams.
• Strong facilitation skills, consulting type skillset.
• Excellent abstract thinking skills, ability to quickly switch b/t conceptual, logical, and physical views.
• High level of executive presence.
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal skills.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of proven experience in performing responsibilities of Business Architecture, enterprise business capability management, business process excellence or related field.
• 3+ years as director of Business Architecture preferred.
• A track record of activating Enterprise Business Capability framework and model.
• Experience working in financial services preferred.
• Solid understanding of Business Architecture concepts and best practices with the ability to be an advocate for leveraging enterprise business capability framework to deliver business value.
• 3+ years working with Business Architecture related tools.
• Large enterprise experience preferred.

Salary Range: $145,000.00 to $230,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

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