Principal Business Architect (Non-Technical)

Job Description

• This is a senior-level role emphasizing business consulting, combined with components of strategy, business planning, business architecture management, process engineering, influence and leadership disciplines. This is a highly visible enterprise role that will interact with leaders across the company.

• Facilitate participative decision making and planning workshops. Workshop participants are typically senior leaders from multiple departments.

• Provide consulting to senior and mid-level leadership on complex and/or ambiguous business problems, and advise on low-risk/high-value alternatives.

• Apply business management consulting tools to remove ambiguity, and drive data-driven decisions making and planning (e.g. SWOT, 5 Forces, Scenario Planning, etc.)

• Contribute to the development of enterprise business architecture models.

• Apply strategic planning practices to translate strategies into business roadmaps and annual project portfolios

• Conduct analysis of business current and future states, performance gaps, and their root causes.

• Understand business behavior patterns and how they work together to enable the business to achieve their strategic and tactical goals.

• Monitor the business sector, industry, technology, infrastructure, legal and regulatory environment trends. Incorporate the consequences of these trends into actionable recommendations to internal clients.

• Develop, organize, and execute enterprise business planning processes.

• Influence senior business leaders in their use of business planning disciplines to achieve business goals.

• Develop and maintain working relationship with business leaders/strategy owners.

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)

• 8+ years of experience in related field.

• In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.

Preferred skills

• Must have Facets experience

• Salesforce experience a plus

• Ability to analyze complex business problems, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey ideas and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Ability to link business strategy with the development of capabilities, processes, and technology.

• Experience in leading change initiatives and driving business improvements

• Aptitude for addressing large, complex, and ambiguous business challenges.

• Understanding of business architecture frameworks and industry-leading practices

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs.Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.