Business Architect (Hybrid)

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Champion new capabilities to be developed as well as any enhancements to existing capabilities in alignment with meeting Kent Corporation’s strategic objectives.
• Serve as a liaison to the IT development and support areas of Kent Corporation IT ensuring business needs are correctly translated and communicated during all phases of an IT solution’s life cycle.
• Function as a subject matter expert in Kent Corporation’s core business processes.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve business performance through information technology and/or process reengineering.
• Assimilate complex business models, processes, and scenarios into clear, concise, IT business requirements for the development and support processes.
• Help assess the business impact/risk of individual initiatives on the enterprise.
• Participate in team reviews of all IT initiatives to ensure accuracy, completeness, and validity of project documentation.
• Act as the first line of contact and communications for all IT related requests within their designated business core processes.
• Manage the change request process for all incoming work requests within their designated business area.
• Perform research on new and existing technologies to determine how their use will impact the business going forward.
• Lead and coordinate the work for business-focused sub-teams as part of large and complex IT initiatives as a functional lead.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND/OR QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have either Bachelor’s degree or significant progress toward a degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• Master’s degree in, or significant progress towards this degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business or related field is preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and Business Architecture IT skills and experience considered.
• Minimum 3 years experience in an IT Business Architecture or related role with the proven ability to work the associated best practices processes, and a proven record of success on initiatives across enterprise level business processes.
• Required knowledge of IT enterprise-level business applications including data warehousing and analytical reporting, methods of ordering/payment/billing, manufacturing and inventory systems, financial systems, sales support systems, etc.
• Required knowledge of IT Business Architecture and Project Management frameworks as well as Application Development methodologies, and IT Operations and Service Management processes.
• Thorough understanding of Kent Corporation’s Strategic Vision, our business processes, and those of our customer’s is desired.
• Previous experience with business rule collection methodologies and process mapping.