Business Architect

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An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company - delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Who we're looking for

Toyota's Enterprise Architecture Department is looking for a passionate and highly-motivated Business Architect.

What you'll be doing

The Business Architect shall:

• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise. Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Be comfortable with Ambiguity: Business architects are rarely handed the scope or context of a given business issue or challenge. Yet they must decipher the underlying challenge, perform root cause analysis, expose business impacts, and provide input to strategy execution and deployment. The business architect leverages the business architecture to turn vague challenges into clear objectives and recommended strategy execution options.
• A hands-on, into the details, dynamic leader whose track record buys immediate credibility across a multiple functional team of the enterprise. This person must be a confident communicator, able to influence and build meaningful relationships inside/outside of her/his department and with all levels of the enterprise.

The Business Architect is responsible for:

• Partner with Business Product Managers and Business System Analysts across the domains providing them with Business-Technology direction, thought leadership, design guidance etc.
• Develop business architecture strategies based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.

What you bring

• Four-Year College Degree (BA or BS) in Finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant work experience as a Business Architect
• Experience using formalized business architecture frameworks such as The Business Architecture Guild and/or the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance. The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies.
• Holistic thinking, Business architects think big picture and long-term. Business architects must be able to separate the forest from the trees in order to examine vast business ecosystems and deliver value across the strategy execution spectrum.
• Must have the ability to abstract and simplify complexity: The business architect must be able to apply principles of the trade to synthesize, rationalize, and aggregate complex views, simplify them for a given audience, and deliver insights required to address various business challenges.
• Strong background in financial services including both internally developed and industry packaged solutions.
• Experience engaging Technology and Business Executives on the topic of Business Strategy & Architecture.

Added bonus if you have

• Advanced degree
• Business Architecture certification(s)
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization including the ability to influence others; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

What we'll bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement.
• Vehicle purchase & lease programs.
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family.
• Flextime and virtual work options (if applicable).
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Relocation assistance (if applicable).

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10 different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members' efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong. As a company that has been one of DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity and a member of The Billion Dollar Roundtable supporting minority and woman-owned suppliers for over 10 years, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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