Portfolio Business Architect Principal

Aligns business requirements with business architecture concepts such as value streams, capabilities, stakeholders, business strategy, and initiatives. This involves working collaboratively to ensure the business architecture reflects the reality of the business. Collaborates and manages relationships across business units to clarify stakeholder concerns. Facilitates the mitigation of concerns through establishing causality and identifying business critical straight-line links between elements in the business architecture.

Architects the implementation alignment of business unit strategies, the delivery alignment of business change/initiatives, and the performance alignment of the business operations using business architecture visual modeling and design tooling. Depicts the business such that strategies and goals are clearly articulated, management decisions are based on facts, transformations are focused on business priorities, and issues to be addressed are based on clarity and facts.

Additional responsibilities may include specifying clear business intentions that can be supported by information technology (IT) from an enterprise architecture perspective.

• Engages with requirements analysts to address the root cause of capability gaps and to move the capability toward its future state
• Aligns business requirements to the business vocabulary defined within the business architecture body of knowledge
• Communicates business strategy and the desired value delivery and capability outcomes
• Advises executives on available options to satisfy customer demand during decision making using the business architecture
• Actively collaborates with Solution Architects through capability mapping to application architecture to provide business and IT with a concise set of conceptual business/IT mappings that can be driven down to a significant degree of detail and, as a result, provide insights into design, transformation, modernization, and automation options
• Involved in the creation and utilization of standardized architectural communications and templates
• Engages with business and technical stakeholders to understand and document the Fed Ex strategy, including target capabilities, current state assessment, and recommendations for transition plans.
• Participates in the execution of the portfolio governance process to assess IT solutions and prioritize them for executive management.
• Collaborates with the Business and IT architecture community to apply architectural principles and translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps
• Communicates complex solutions to all levels of stakeholders, including executive management.
• Supports the SAFe Portfolio Kanban process by breaking down portfolio epics into smaller, consumable work bundles for value streams.
• Actively collaborates with Value Stream Business Architects to elaborate value stream backlog bundles of work and synchronize execution with the strategic roadmap.
• Assesses and documents the impact of changing strategic direction on established and planned roadmaps.
• Contributes to the growth of understanding and knowledge of Business Architecture practices, processes, and tools throughout Fed Ex.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, operations research, computer science, or related quantitative discipline.

Certified Business Architect (CBA)®, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Graduate Certificate in Business Architecture or other related architecture certification or status.

Four (4) years’ work experience in applying business architecture principals and progressively elaborating and identifying courses of action within the boundaries of one or more portfolio. Extensive knowledge and experience in the application of business architecture within strategy execution, an enterprise operating model, and customer experience design. Proven track record of establishing business architecture and enterprise architecture framework alignment.

More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements.