Job responsibilities:
- Advises cross-functional teams on technology selection to achieve target state architecture and decisions on improvements to current technologies
- Collaborate with senior leadership to understand strategic goals and translate them into architectural plans.
- Propose innovative solutions and improvements to existing systems and processes to maintain a competitive edge.
- Ensure that the business architecture integrates seamlessly with other enterprise architecture domains (applications, data, infrastructure and security).
- Create high-level design artifacts, including value streams, business capability models, process models, and data flows.
- Ensure that the proposed solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with the organization's architectural standards.
- Collaborate across business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of requirements.
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices across COGT, and as the Business Architect, serve as the organization’s go-to subject matter expert.
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- At lest 8+ years of experience in business architecture with a background in designing and implementing solutions in a complex environment.
- Strategic thinker and passion for business strategy and business processes.
- Experienced in financial services, ideally with exposure to Compliance, Controls Management, Regulatory Engagement or Operational Risk functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Deep knowledge in one or more software, applications, and architecture.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives
- Knowledge of industry standards and regulatory initiatives.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems in one or more technical disciplines
- Experience leading a product as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Interest in innovative technologies and how these can be applied, e.g. Generative AI and Agentic AI.