USAA · 3 hours ago
Business Architect Senior - Property & Casualty PMO
Plano Legacy
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$103K/yr - $198K/yr
6+ years expUSAA is committed to empowering its members to achieve financial security through competitive products and exceptional service. The Business Architect Senior will play a vital role in executing organizational strategy and aligning business objectives with technology investments, while guiding cross-functional teams in portfolio planning and execution readiness processes.
BankingFinancial ServicesInsuranceVenture Capital
No H1B
Responsibilities
Provides direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals
Supports Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments
Executes business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy
Translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives
Contributes to the design of and facilitates current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (i.e., capability-based planning)
Applies and utilizes business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis
Serves as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts
Facilitates, negotiates, and represents business' interests in the maturation and investment in business architecture
Facilitates the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices
Contributes to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks
Stays updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree
6 years of relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development
2 years of hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies
Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services
Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile)
Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization
Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes
Knowledge and application of industry standard business and enterprise architecture meta modeling, tooling, and frameworks (BIZBOK®, TOGAF®)
Experience in the application of business architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices
Preferred
Prior U.S. military service or being a military spouse/domestic partner is highly valued
3 or more years working in property and casualty insurance industry
Experience working with business partners in targeted conversations for early clarification of strategic intent and target state
Experience conducting various business architecture tasks in collaboration with PMO practices and methods (e.g., waterfall, SAFe/Agile)
Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and sustaining ongoing business architectural artifacts and decision support to optimize value creation
Consistent track record of thinking, crafting and implementing solutions with a systems-thinking, member-centric approach
Exceptional verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills to effectively convey insights to diverse audiences, including senior leadership
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
401(k)
Pension
Life insurance
Parental benefits
Adoption assistance
Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
Various wellness programs
Career path planning and continuing education
Company
USAA
USAA is a financial services company.
10001+ employees
Funding
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Julie McPeak
SVP, General Counsel Insurance
Waqas Durrani
Senior Vice President, General Counsel - Enterprise Shared Services
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