ENTERPRISE BUSINESS ARCHITECT

The Enterprise Business Architect will serve as a thought leader in an agile and innovative organization. This critical role will be responsible for modeling capabilities that represent lines of businesses and functional groups that make up the RSM enterprise. These capabilities will depict required competencies needed to be systemically successful and resources (people, process, technology and equipment) consumed by these capabilities.

This Business Architect will assist in coordination and facilitation of strategic planning discussions across the organization and ensure alignment to the strategic direction of the enterprise. The person in this role will work closely with our Business Relationship Leads to ensure strategic roadmaps collectively come together to provide value for the organization. They will help remove silos and increase synergetic activity where it makes sense for the organization.

The Business Architect is expected to improve business and technology alignment by managing and maintaining relationships on both sides of the fence. This person will work closely with technical Enterprise Architects to understand their roadmaps and, also, work closely with change agents to help them make optimal use of current and planned technical capabilities/functions provided by information technology.

This Business Architect will help our organization do a better job aligning the strategic discussions of all business lines and functional groups.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Collaborate with the business and IT teams to create and manage the following:
• Enterprise capability models that depict the competencies of various lines of business and functional areas at high level
• Functional domain models dedicated to a specified line of business or functional area
• Capability Resource (people, process, technology and equipment) consumption map
• Collaborates on the creation, adoption of the strategic planning taxonomy and namespace standards
• Collaborates on the creation, management and approval of content and document management standards.
• Work with Business Relationship Leads, business analysts and IT architects to plan, coordinate and facilitate strategic workshops
• Assist in the management and maintenance of an Enterprise Architecture modeling tool and architecture repository
• Manage and maintain relationships with key business and IT stakeholder across the organization and stay abreast of up and coming aspirations that will have architectural dependencies
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• Master's degree in computer science, data certifications, information systems or other related field - preferred

TECHNICAL SKILLS/SOFT SKILLS:

• Experience working with modeling and reporting tools
• Familiarity with SDLC process and frameworks
• Strong conceptual, analytic, and expert problem-solving skills
• Motivated to work in a new and growing environment
• Strong mentoring and training skills
• Strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management, influence and conveys an approachable demeanor

EXPERIENCE:

• 3 years' experience modeling and/or reporting on operational trends and/or patterns - required
• 2 years' experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards and guidelines - required
• Experience working closely with enterprise transformation efforts - required
• Experience building current state blueprint, future state roadmaps, process flows and/or operational support documentation - preferred
• Experience working with business intelligence tools and reporting on trends - preferred
• Experience working for Audit, Tax and/or Business Consulting agency - preferred
• Expertise in developing and architecting solutions in a collaborative environment, as well as significant experience in multiple computing environments, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change - preferred

LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to work effectively with business managers, IT Applications teams, IT engineering and IT operations staff.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to build strong relationships across lines of business, functional areas, and outside vendors.
• Provide thought leadership through innovative ideas, business and technology trends, competitive analysis and internal collaboration
• Stay informed of current industry best practices; working with clients and internal cross-functional teams to apply best practices where appropriate
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively across the entire organization.
• Ability to be seen as a leader and SME of data technologies for architecture and project teams, management and business personnel.

In accordance with applicable law and RSM policy, prospective hires will be required to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 . If not vaccinated for COVID-19 they must qualify for an accommodation to this vaccination requirement o r participate in testing .

If you are located in New York, pursuant to current applicable law, you will be required to be vaccinated to enter the New York office and testing is not an option to enter the New York office.

You want your next step to be the right one. You've worked hard to get where you are today. And now you're ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you'll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.

Experience RSM US. Experience the power of being understood.

RSM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

Job ID: req22886

Line of Business: Internal Client Service

SubFunction: IT

Job Type: FullTime

Req #: req22886

Location: Minneapolis, MN US

Region: National

Job Category: Corporate Information Technology

Employment Type: Experienced

Degree Required: None

Travel: No