Business Architect

Overview

As a Business Architect, you will be responsible for understanding business processes and needs, identifying opportunities, and translating them into capability roadmaps to streamline processes and drive efficiencies.  This role excels in bridging the gap between business and technology, and requires strong communication decomposing complex concepts in simple, non-technical terms.  You will play a crucial role in guiding project teams, ensuring they have the necessary strategies and supporting artifacts to implement their initiatives successfully.

Responsibilities

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist business stakeholders with modernizing their processes to support growth and sustainability through new or enhanced technical solutions.
• Serve as the business process expert, providing process analysis and documentation of high level as-is and to-be process maps for project teams to execute toward.
• Deep understanding of the business problem to be solved, and benefits the proposed solutions will bring.
• Represent the business and its needs to other contributors in the solution implementation process.
• Partner with dependent, cross-functional organizations to establish proper ownership and ensure end to end process fluidity.
• Generate business capability maps, value streams, information architectures, process models, roadmaps, transition plans, and risk assessments.
• Partner closely with Technical and Data Architects to ensure process designs are optimized and adhere to technical standards.
• Assess project proposals for business impacts in alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Broker discussions with executive-level stakeholders for agreement on large/complex cross functional redesign efforts
• Deep understanding of agile program delivery and methodology (certifications preferred)
• Work with the business to establish current state metrics and future state KPIs.
• Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor's Degree and 10 years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development – or equivalent experience
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4 years people management experience.
• 4 years conducting gap analysis
• Experience collaborating between self-organizing, cross-functional technical teams
• Ability to provide impact analyses
• Ability to provide risk analyses       
• Experience in successfully working with both technical and business subject matter experts across multiple organizational levels.
• Proven ability to define customer-focused scenarios, author business cases and track value realization, and drive keen insights and identify opportunities to develop solutions.
• Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt or Black Belt).

Compensation & Benefits

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings AccountsShort-Term Disability and Long-Term DisabilityComprehensive 401(k) planGenerous Parental LeaveUnrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance ProgramTuition ReimbursementOptional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $125,000 – $145,000. The compensation range is specific to the United States and incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.

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