Job Description
The Senior Business Architect plays a critical role within the portfolio and PMO ecosystem by ensuring enterprise strategy is translated into coherent, investment‑ready business capabilities, value streams, and target operating models across the health insurance enterprise. This role partners closely with Portfolio Management, Finance, Product, Operations, and Technology leaders to evaluate proposed initiatives, validate business cases, and align investments to strategic priorities, regulatory mandates, and measurable outcomes. The Senior Business Architect identifies cross‑portfolio dependencies, capability gaps, and redundancies, enabling more informed prioritization and sequencing of work. By connecting strategic intent to portfolio execution, this role strengthens governance, improves decision quality, and helps ensure the organization is investing in the right capabilities at the right time to deliver sustainable value, regulatory compliance, and improved member and provider experiences.What You’ll Do
- This job emphasizes business consulting, combined with components of strategy, business planning, business architecture management, process engineering, influence and leadership disciplines. This is a highly visible enterprise role that will interact with leaders across the company.
- Facilitate participative decision making and planning workshops. Workshop participants are typically senior leaders from multiple departments.
- Provide consulting to senior and mid-level leadership on complex and/or ambiguous business problems, and advise on low-risk/high-value alternatives.
- Apply business management consulting tools to remove ambiguity, and drive data-driven decisions making and planning
- Contribute to the development of enterprise business architecture models.
- Apply strategic planning practices to translate strategies into business roadmaps and annual project portfolios
- Conduct analysis of business current and future states, performance gaps, and their root causes.
- Understand business behavior patterns and how they work together to enable the business to achieve their strategic and tactical goals.
- Monitor the business sector, industry, technology, infrastructure, legal and regulatory environment trends. Incorporate the consequences of these trends into actionable recommendations to internal clients.
- Influence senior business leaders in their use of business planning disciplines to achieve business goals.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with business leaders/strategy owners.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
- 5+ years of experience in related field.
- In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.
Bonus Points
- Demonstrated experience working in a consultative, advisory capacity
What You’ll Get
- The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community
- Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs
- Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance
- Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education
- 401k match including an annual company contribution
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Salary Range
At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.
*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.
Skills
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
- 5+ years of experience in related field
- In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field
- Demonstrated experience working in a consultative, advisory capacity
What We Do
It's an exciting time to work at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Health care is changing, and we're leading the way. We offer more than health insurance our customers can count on. We’re committed to better health and better health care − in our communities and beyond. Our employees bring energy and creativity to the workplace, and it shows in our innovative approach to improving the health and well-being of North Carolinians. Our company is a not-for-profit with headquarters in Durham and major operations in Winston-Salem and Fayetteville. In all we employ more than 4,500 North Carolinians and serve more than 3.7 million customers. Help us lead the charge for better health care by joining our award-winning team. Discover tremendous opportunities with us to do challenging and rewarding work. Opportunities that can lead you to a fulfilling career, work that can help others lead healthier, happier lives. Blue Cross NC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
