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Domain Business Architect
full-time•Honolulu
About this role
- Business Relationship Management: Develops and maintains strong working relationships with domain executives, management and stakeholders to understand their needs and align business objectives with corporate and IT strategies.
- Meets regularly with business domain leaders to understand their operational performance, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- Socializes business architecture concepts within the business domain and identifies opportunities to initiate business architecture projects.
- Acts as a liaison between business and IT teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration and translates technical concepts and terminology into non-technical terms.
- Facilitates periodic meetings with business stakeholders to prioritize new business architecture requests amongst other domain initiatives already in progress or in queue.
- Monitors changes in corporate and IT goals and strategies to assess the impacts on business domain objectives and initiatives.
- Keeps current with the changing technology landscape to identify potential opportunities for application within the business domain.
- Collaborates with other Business Architects on cross-domain initiatives.
- Business Architecture Modeling: Performs business modeling as an iterative process that relies heavily on the input from business and IT SMEs. The Domain Business Architect must solicit feedback and be flexible in modifying the models as new information is introduced.
- Performs strategy mapping that links business strategy to a business domain's goals, value streams and business capabilities and defines objective measures and target metrics at each level of the mapping.
- Defines value streams that identify how value is generated for external and internal customers and that contribute to attaining the business domain's primary goals.
- Performs business capability mapping to identify what a business domain does to enable value creation for its customers and decomposes each capability into the next lower level of detail until business processes are identified.
- Business Capability Assessment: Assesses current business capabilities based on three key factors: People, Process and Technology.
- Assesses how well business capabilities are being supported by the people performing those business functions using evaluation criteria including productivity, capacity and competency.
- Assesses how well business capabilities are being supported by the processes used to perform those business functions using evaluation criteria including effectiveness, efficiency, and quality.
- Assesses IT applications that support the business capabilities using evaluation criteria including functionality, performance, flexibility, integration, and user experience.
- Business Process Automation and Transformation: Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to research, evaluate and recommend solutions based on business goals and requirements and balanced by resource constraints.
- Identifies Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotic or other technology solutions for automating business processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Identifies solutions for optimizing or transforming business processes to improve performance and upskill workforce.
- Applies process improvement methodologies to optimize manual processes.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to apply organizational change management methods to ensure successful adoption and integration of transformed business processes.
- Measures the impact on key business metrics pre- and post-implementation of the selected solutions.
- Project and Program Management: Through the application of effective project and program management skills, the Domain Business Architect manages a portfolio of business architecture projects ("the program") related to their assigned business domain.
- Develops and updates the strategy, prioritization, roadmap and delivery timeline for the program and its component projects.
- Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders and leadership to establish key business goals and objectives for the program and ensures alignment with corporate goals and initiatives.
- Regularly monitors and communicates program and project status to business and IT stakeholders. Creates program and project dashboards that report project health, completion progress, issues, risks, target metrics and budget variances.
- Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
- Attends training, conferences and seminars as needed or assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and five years of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation and facilitation skills with all levels of the organization.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills in a business and technology environment.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong program and project management skills.
- Strong business analysis and process mapping skills.
- Strong process improvement and performance improvement skills.
- Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Visio.
What you'll do
- The Domain Business Architect develops and maintains relationships with domain executives to align business objectives with corporate strategies. They also manage a portfolio of business architecture projects and facilitate communication between business and IT teams.
About HMSA
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a reliable name in Hawaii health care. Established in 1938, we are the largest and most experienced provider of health care coverage in the state. Over half of Hawaii’s population have chosen HMSA for their health care coverage.
We are dedicated to providing quality, affordable health plans; employee benefit services; and worksite wellness programs. HMSA also offers a variety of programs, services and support to help improve the health and well-being of our members and community.
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