Sr Manager - Business Architecture -Enterprise Architecture

The Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) team serves as the organization’s connective blueprint – linking business strategy to technology execution through clear capabilities, value streams, processes, organizational constructs, information, and decision frameworks. As a strategic discipline, the team aligns business vision, product direction, and technology execution into an end-to-end unified model that drives clarity, consistency, and accelerates enterprise-
wide technology transformation. Operating at the intersection of strategy, design, and delivery, the team shapes the Enterprise Business Capability Model (EBCM) and the operating frameworks that enable product, engineering, and business functions to innovate and deliver future-ready outcomes at scale, and unlock enterprise impact with speed, trust, and efficiency.

Ideal Candidate Profile:
• A strategic systems thinker with the ability to see the “enterprise whole” and connect disparate moving parts into a unified blueprint
• A management consulting-caliber communicator/storyteller, with exceptional executive presence and analytical rigor
• A collaborator who excels at bringing Product, Engineering, and Business leaders into alignment
• A builder who can create frameworks, models, and governance structures that scale
• A change leader energized by complexity, ambiguity, and enterprise transformation
• A risk-architecture oriented leader with experience connecting business capabilities, processes, controls, operational risk, regulatory obligations, and data governance into enterprise architecture blueprint

8-10 years experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, strategy, or
operating model design within a large, complex organization
• Deep expertise in business architecture practices (e.g. business capability modeling,
value streams, domain modeling, operating model)
• Experience applying business architecture to risk domains
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF/BizBOK - conceptual
familiarity is a must, certification will be a plus)
• Strong understanding of enterprise platforms, API ecosystems, integration
architectures, and operating model transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and facilitate alignment across large,
matrixed organizations
• Experience shaping cross-functional frameworks across Product, Engineering,
Operations, and Business units
• Exceptional executive storytelling capability, with a proven ability to translate complex
strategies into clear, compelling narratives for senior leadership
• Hands-on experience developing board-level and executive-committee materials,
including strategic storylines, transformation updates, and enterprise decision
frameworks

Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior experience at a top tier Management Consulting firm (i.e. McKinsey / BCG / Bain / Accenture / Deloitte etc) is highly desirable
• MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Strategy, Information Systems, or related field
• Prior American Express experience or experience in a global financial services
/ payments enterprise
• Experience in risk architecture, regulatory architecture, data governance, risk, privacy, or control taxonomy initiatives within a global financial services environment is strongly preferred.
• Background in large-scale modernization, persistent capacity models, platform
rationalization, or M&A integration a strong plus
• Familiarity with API productization, domain-driven design, merchant and/or B2B
partner integration needs, and capability-driven governance models a strong plus