Business Technology Architect

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Business Technology Architect to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

This role connects business strategy with technology capabilities, architecture, and investment priorities to support the organization's strategic objectives. They develop and maintain enterprise capability models, architecture frameworks, and strategic roadmaps that provide an integrated view of business processes, products, applications, data, platforms, and enabling technologies.

This role partners with business and technology leaders to identify capability gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for modernization, consolidation, reuse, and innovation. They provide strategic guidance for portfolio and technology investments, evaluate emerging technologies, and translate complex business and technology considerations into clear recommendations that enable informed decision-making

How you’ll create opportunities in this Business Technology Architect role:

- Develop and maintain business and technology capability models, heat maps, dependency views, and other architecture artifacts that define capabilities, ownership, maturity, dependencies, and strategic importance to support decision-making.
- Map relationships among business capabilities, processes, products, applications, data, platforms, services, APIs, and enabling technologies.
- Develop current-state and target-state architecture views that connect business objectives with technology strategy and future-state capabilities.
- Identify capability gaps, dependencies, redundancies, and opportunities for modernization, consolidation, integration, reuse, or retirement.
- Partner with Enterprise, Application, Data, and Solution Architecture teams to promote alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

Strategy & Roadmap Development

- Translate business strategy and objectives into architecture priorities and actionable roadmaps that align business, product, application, data, platform, and technology initiatives.
- Analyze existing technology environments and recommend opportunities to improve scalability, efficiency, integration, security, and business value.
- Assess the business and technology implications of proposed changes and provide recommendations regarding sequencing, dependencies, and strategic trade-offs.

Portfolio & Investment Optimization

- Support product, application, and technology portfolio planning and rationalization using strategic value, adoption, technology health, cost, risk, security, and capability alignment.
- Evaluate alternatives and provide recommendations to invest, modernize, consolidate, replace, sustain, or retire technology capabilities and solutions.
- Partner with business, Product, and Finance stakeholders to assess total cost of ownership, return on investment, expected benefits, cost avoidance, risk reduction, and other measures of value.
- Identify duplication across applications, products, platforms, and capabilities and recommend opportunities for enterprise reuse and standardization.
- Establish traceability between strategic objectives, business capabilities, technology investments, and expected business outcomes.

Data, AI & Emerging Technology Alignment

- Identify opportunities to improve business capabilities through data, AI, automation, reusable services, APIs, and digital platforms.
- Partner with Data and AI leaders to align technology capabilities with data ownership, governance, quality, security, and AI readiness.
- Evaluate new technologies and architectural approaches and recommend adoption when they support business strategy and enterprise standards.
- Advise where shared enterprise capabilities versus differentiated solutions best support business needs.
- Incorporate emerging technology considerations into strategic roadmaps and architecture recommendations.

Architecture Governance & Decision Support

- Support architecture governance by establishing clear principles, standards, decision criteria, ownership, and accountability.
- Conduct architecture reviews and assessments to evaluate alignment with business objectives, technology strategy, architectural principles, and enterprise standards.
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies, exceptions, and trade-offs and communicate recommendations to appropriate stakeholders.
- Develop concise, decision-ready recommendations and visualizations that enable leaders to understand complex business and technology considerations.
- Promote consistent architecture terminology, models, and practices across business and technology teams.

Leadership & Collaboration

- Lead architecture, capability planning, roadmap, and portfolio discussions and facilitate cross-functional workshops to establish priorities, evaluate alternatives, resolve dependencies, and build stakeholder alignment.
- Influence decisions across organizational boundaries through expertise, analysis, facilitation, and trusted partnerships.
- Translate complex technical and architectural concepts into clear business language for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to business and technology stakeholders regarding enterprise capabilities, technology direction, architecture, and investment priorities.
- Stay current with business architecture, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, AI, data, product operating models, and emerging technology practices.

What you will need:

- 6 years of relevant experience required
- Experience in the following areas preferred: Business architecture, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, solution/application architecture, product strategy, portfolio management, digital transformation, or a related discipline.
- Developing enterprise capability models, architecture frameworks, strategic roadmaps, or target-state architectures.
- Aligning business objectives and processes with applications, data, platforms, products, and technology capabilities.
- Evaluating technology portfolios and developing recommendations for investment, modernization, consolidation, optimization, or retirement.
- Influencing cross-functional stakeholders and facilitating strategic discussions with business and technology leaders.
- Collaborating across technology disciplines, including Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Product, Data and AI, Security, Platform Engineering, and Technology Operations. Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Technical Competencies:

- Proficiency in business and enterprise architecture principles and practices.
- Experience with capability modeling, heat maps, and strategic technology roadmaps.
- Understanding of value-stream and operating-model analysis.
- Knowledge of portfolio rationalization and technology investment decision support.
- Experience with business-to-technology traceability and dependency analysis.
- Understanding of data, AI, automation, and technology readiness assessments.
- Knowledge of architecture governance, decision rights, and accountability frameworks.
- Experience with architecture modeling and visualization.
- Strong executive storytelling, presentation, workshop design, and facilitation skills.
- Knowledge of outcome measurement and continuous improvement methodologies, including Six Sigma.

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