[Hiring] Enterprise Business Architect @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

The Enterprise Business Architect is responsible for translating enterprise strategy into repeatable EA processes, tools and technologies. The immediate focus will be on building actionable IT investment roadmaps, assessing business capabilities and creating EA models/artifacts that enable data-driven investment decisions. The role bridges business strategy and execution by analyzing current-state operations and designing future-state investment strategies that align business goals, processes, organizational structure and technology. The Business Architect collaborates cross-functionally with executive leadership, business unit stakeholders and EA teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation.

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into actionable capability maps, value streams and target operating models.
• Build and maintain enterprise capability models to uncover gaps, redundancies and investment opportunities.
• Analyze current-state business processes and organizational structures to identify inefficiencies and drive improvements.
• Provide input into the design of future-state business architectures including process redesign, organizational realignment and capability roadmaps.
• Lead workshops and interviews with business unit leaders, subject matter experts and technology teams to gather requirements and build consensus on architectural direction.
• Establish and maintain business architecture standards/frameworks and governance processes for enterprise-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects to align business architecture with IT architecture and solution design.
• Support investment planning by linking business capabilities to strategic initiatives and identifying dependencies, risks and value drivers.
• Drive adoption of new business models by communicating architectural vision and rationale to stakeholders across all levels.
• Curate, organize and maintain learning content to support enterprise architecture learning pathways and employee development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture, strategy or management consulting.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (i.e. ServiceNow, YouDesign, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Proven experience developing capability models, value stream maps and target operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to assess capabilities, analyze findings and deliver recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills to assess current-state processes and identify inefficiencies, gaps and redundancies.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business strategy into actionable roadmaps and investment priorities.
• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience leading workshops and interviews to gather requirements and build stakeholder consensus.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects.
• Experience establishing governance processes and architecture standards across an enterprise.
• Strong communication and change management skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Business acumen to link capabilities to strategic initiatives and evaluate risks, dependencies and value drivers.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.