Your Role

The Business Architecture team, within the Enterprise Architecture organization, is responsible for developing strategies and multi-year integrated roadmaps that bridge our business portfolios and technology vision. The Enterprise Business Architect, Principal will report to the Sr. Director, Business Architecture and Innovation Product Strategy. In this role you will drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise business capability architecture blueprints and integrated roadmaps that guide our strategic investments and enterprise initiatives for the Growth Portfolio. Working in close partnership with business and IT portfolio leaders, this role will set and help execute the strategic direction of the portfolio. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise business architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap
• Apply expert level architecture knowledge and skills across multiple domain areas (business, information, application and technology) in driving the advancement of our corporate strategy
• Collaborate with and lead other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services
• Develop and maintain reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns and usage guidelines
• Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and business stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or business unit plans
• Provide comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood estimated and controlled across people, process and technology
• Collaborate with customers, vendors, industry consultants and senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance on our business strategy
• Manage the creation and maintenance of models that identify interdependencies between business units, roles, associated capabilities, and technologies

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires at least 10 years relevant business and IT experience
• Requires at least 3 years of experience in an architecture role
• Prior experience in developing enterprise level architecture strategies and roadmaps
• Prior experience in portfolio investment planning
• Prior experience defining and analyzing enterprise business capabilities
• Understanding of business process design methods and tools a plus
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
• Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level
• Must be a team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 145970.00 to $ 218900.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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