Job Title: Business Architect
Location: Remote, NY.
Employment: Contract (6 months)
Industry: Banking
Compensation: $ 100.00/hour
Schedule: 40.00 hours /week
About the Opportunity:
- Documents, visualizes, and articulates overall technical health, current and target states of Enterprise Architecture in collaboration with domain leadership.
- Develops roadmaps with domain leadership to incorporate industry trend data for a targeted domain / function, and connect them with the broader Enterprise technology landscape, including alignment to industry Enterprise Architecture standards building a pathway to achieve target state goals.
- Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Technology domain leadership to support strategic decision making.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Provide consultation services to domain leadership to improve technology delivery and operational efficiency.
- Research and communicate fact-based recommendations to Master Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process.
- Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate current state, target state and domain roadmap.
- Partner with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations, and support in preparation for S1/S2 leadership meetings and architectural peer group meetings.
- Research, understand and apply existing, new and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains.
- Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals.
- Identify opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems from a broad enterprise perspective that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements for Agile teams and domain leadership to help promote the reuse of existing technical investments and capabilities.
- Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise level architecture patterns.
- Participate in the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture guidance.
- Understand and adhere to the Company"*s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company"*s Risk Appetite.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client Bank brand.
- Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Additional duties as assigned.
- This position will interface with senior leaders, and will require excellent communication skills along with basic knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use
- Translate business strategy into capability, value stream, and initiative roadmaps
- Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcome
- Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models
- Define current-state and target-state business architectures [linkedin.com]
- Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value
- Support portfolio planning and initiative prioritization
- Assess business processes, structures, and systems for alignment and efficiency
- Define business-driven requirements for transformation efforts
- Partner with executives, product teams, EA, and delivery teams
- Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders
- Establish and enforce business architecture standards and frameworks
- Ensure traceability from strategy through execution
- Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, and Data Architects to align designs
- Ensure business intent is reflected in solution and technology decisions.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
- 11+ years of experience in software engineering, software delivery or solution architecture
- 10+ years of experience in business architecture, strategy, consulting, or transformation roles
- 11+ years of experience in Business & Technology Acumen
- 11+ years of experience in Business Architecture Expertise
- 11+ years of experience in Executive Communication
- 11+ years of experience in building business architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models)
- 11+ years of experience in working in large, complex enterprises
What Sets You Apart:
- Master's Degree
- Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
- Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
- Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
- Experience working in the financial services industry
- Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning
- Strategic thinking and business model design
- Capability modeling and value stream mapping
- Systems thinking and enterprise analysis
- Stakeholder facilitation and executive communication
- Problem-solving and structured decision-making
- Financial and investment analysis (business case, prioritization)
- Influence without authority across complex organizations
- Visualization and modeling (e.g., capability maps, operating models)
- Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts and practices
- Capabilities, value streams, organization, information mapping
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, FEAPO-aligned definitions)
- Operating model design and business transformation methods
- Financial services industry structure, regulations, and risk considerations
- Portfolio management and investment prioritization
- SDLC and technology delivery lifecycle alignment
- Data, process, and organizational design principles
- Certifications Certified Business Architect (CBA*) - Business Architecture Guild
- TOGAF or equivalent EA certification
- financial services
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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