Principal Business Architect

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

The Business Architect will be tasked with connecting business strategy, operating models, process design, and technology execution. The role is responsible for defining and optimizing business capabilities, value streams, processes, and architecture roadmaps so that transformation initiatives are scalable, future-ready, and aligned to enterprise priorities.

• Set and drive the enterprise-wide business architecture vision and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and digital transformation goals.
• Lead the integration of Business architecture with Enterprise, System, Solution, and Data architecture, enabling end-to-end business agility within and across value streams.
• Serve as the lead business architecture advisor to executive leadership, influencing investment decisions, transformation priorities, and organizational design.
• Architect and oversee large-scale business transformation programs or operating model evaluations/redesigns, ensuring business outcomes are achieved.
• Build and lead communities of practice for business architects and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Align business strategy, operating models, processes, data, and technology solutions to create scalable and future-ready business capabilities.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• Ten (10) or more years of relevant IT experience and/or business domain experience, including five (5) or more years of relevant business architecture experience required.
• Digital Transformation experience preferred.
• Experience building capability maps, customer journeys, value streams, and designing target operating models preferred.
• Experience leading elements of large transformation projects including facilitation of multi-stakeholder (process design, capability mapping, executive alignment) workshops, influencing without authority, and driving cross-functional decisions preferred.
• Experience establishing business architecture as a discipline preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred.
• Consulting experience preferred.
• Certified Business Architect preferred.
• MBA preferred.

• Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Business Operator Acumen - Applies deep understanding of operational realities to design processes that are both strategically aligned and practically executable.
• Business Process Analytics - Utilizes data-driven insights to evaluate process performance, identify inefficiencies, and guide continuous improvement initiatives.
• Business Process Governance - Establishes and enforces frameworks that ensure process consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Data Governance - Ability to establish and oversee a set of procedures, policies, and standards that ensure the effective and efficient management of an organization's data assets. This includes ensuring data quality, compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and secure data handling practices. It also involves the coordination between different departments to ensure that data is accurate, accessible, and used responsibly and ethically.
• Data Modeling - Skill in designing and implementing data models that align with business requirements, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability.
• Design Thinking Mindset - Uses human-centered design principles to create innovative, user-friendly processes that solve real business problems effectively.
• Domain Knowledge - Leverages expertise in specific business domains to ensure process architectures reflect industry standards and organizational nuances.
• Metadata Management - Proficiency in metadata management solutions to enable efficient data discovery, data lineage tracing, and data asset management.
• Process Integration Skills - Designs and connects end-to-end processes across systems and departments to enable seamless business operations and data flow.
• Process Orchestration - Process orchestration refers to the coordination and management of various tasks, activities, and resources within a workflow or business process. It involves organizing, sequencing, and automating individual tasks or sub-processes to ensure that the overall process operates smoothly and efficiently. Process orchestration typically involves integrating disparate systems, applications, and services to streamline operations and improve collaboration across different parts of an organization. It often employs workflow management tools, automation software, and integration platforms to facilitate communication, data exchange, and decision-making among different components of the process. The goal of process orchestration is to optimize the flow of work, minimize delays and bottlenecks, and enhance overall productivity and performance.
• Project Delivery - Supports initiatives by translating strategic goals into actionable process designs that align with project timelines and outcomes.
• Responsible Innovation - Knowledge of ethical considerations related to data usage, data-driven technologies and strategies to mitigate biases in data-driven decision-making.
• Strategic Outlook - Examines issues, generates ideas, creates future scenarios and develops plans with a long-term perspective. Ensures short-term goals support long-term strategy and that organizational/functional strategy aligns with and supports MPC’s overall business strategy.
• Systems Thinking - The ability to analyze complex systems and understand their interdependencies, considering both technical and business aspects, to develop comprehensive and scalable architectures.

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