CPS Energy Hiring for Business Architect Sr at San Antonio, TX  Full Time

The Business Architect Sr is responsible for defining and designing Senior Business Architecture that drives the organization towards targeted business outcomes by leveraging existing and innovative technology to enable CPS Energy’s future-state business capabilities and business models. He/she aligns CPS Energy IT and enterprise strategy, maintains business capability models to reflect new or improved processes or IT systems, creates common standards to ensure integrity of the models, and influences enterprise strategy through the lens of Senior Business Architecture. The Senior Business Architect facilitates the construction of new and innovative models across the Senior Business Architecture landscape (e.g., economic model, financial model, service model), often with the latest technologies, to drive and innovate around the needs of CPS’s customers. He/she identifies required change across many elements of the organization to enable these models- from CPS’ business ecosystem to the way it is organized, and the technology is utilized and designs and orchestrates transformation across each element. The Senior Business Architect works to enable business capabilities, functions and processes, and organization design, as well as works collaboratively with business strategists, process owners, and subject matter experts.

Grade: 18
Qualifications may warrant placement in a different job level.

• Highlights how digital business initiatives will potentially impact the enterprise’s critical financial metrics and economic architectures.
• Supports business and technology innovation that drives the organization’s top and bottom lines.
• Details potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of CPS Energy’s traditional realm of competition.
• Engages key business stakeholders and product managers to facilitate both strategy and innovation planning.
• Collaborates with stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to develop an IT investment roadmap.
• Reviews the organization’s digital strategy and how the organization currently approaches digital innovation.
• Creates deliverables that illustrate how to strategically move the business forward.
• Works with enterprise architects and key organizational stakeholders to define a strategic plan for leveraging integrated Senior Business Architecture as part of the enterprise architecture.
• Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Defines a clear plan and governance for ensuring the Senior Business Architecture work is in lock step with the other EA viewpoints.
• Provides strategic consultation to product managers in defining or designing business capabilities, processes, functions, and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing, selling, and enabling technologies based on business and end-user requirements.
• Participates in enterprise architecture development, including business & information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture, and champions the balance of flexibility and risk.
• Facilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business requirements.
• Seeks ways to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology for, business processes.
• Research and provide information on technical trends and competitors’ practices relevant to assigned products and value streams.
• Assesses near-term needs, using structured interview processes, to establish business priorities. Consults with technical principals and develops alternative technical solutions.
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on business processes and system priorities.
• Facilitates development of cross-product/value stream (enterprise) solutions that combine knowledge of business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.

• Knowledge and understanding of types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).
• Knowledge of existing, new, and emerging technologies and being able to practically incorporate them into new business designs and business models.
• In-depth experience applying existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• In-depth experience with business transformation and process redesign methods.
• Comprehensive knowledge of facilitation and organization change management.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
• Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• Statistical and information analysis skills (a plus).
• Organizationally savvy, understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles.
• Ability to communicate, influence and persuade – both business and IT leaders as well as peers.
• Use the language of business leaders and join the conversation that is taking place.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Understand business process management, workflow and integration methods and tools.
• Experience with business capability modeling.
• Knowledge of cloud computing.