Portfolio Business Architect Principal

Aligns business requirements with business architecture concepts such as value streams, capabilities, stakeholders, business strategy, and initiatives. Collaborates to ensure the business architecture reflects the reality of the business and manages relationships across business units to clarify stakeholder concerns. Facilitates mitigation of concerns by establishing causality and identifying critical links between elements in the business architecture. Uses visual modeling and design tooling to architect alignment of business unit strategies, delivery of business change/initiatives, and performance of business operations.

Responsibilities

• Engages with requirements analysts to address the root cause of capability gaps and move capabilities toward their future state.
• Aligns business requirements to the business vocabulary defined within the business architecture body of knowledge.
• Communicates business strategy, desired value delivery, and capability outcomes to stakeholders.
• Advises executives on available options to satisfy customer demand during decision-making using business architecture.
• Collaborates with Solution Architects through capability mapping to application architecture, providing concise conceptual business/IT mappings for insights into design, transformation, modernization, and automation options.
• Creates and utilizes standardized architectural communications and templates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, operations research, computer science, or related quantitative discipline.
• Certified Business Architect (CBA)®, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Graduate Certificate in Business Architecture, or other related architecture certification or status.
• Four (4) years’ work experience in applying business architecture principles and progressively elaborating courses of action within portfolio boundaries.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in applying business architecture within strategy execution, enterprise operating models, and customer experience design.
• Proven track record of establishing business architecture and enterprise architecture framework alignment.

Skills

• Ability to visually represent architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems using Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams.
• Expertise in modeling and managing complex information using architecture tooling (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect, IRIS Business Architect).
• Experience producing business capability health assessments adhering to BIZBOK, TOGAF, or Capability-Based Planning frameworks.
• Track record of producing gap analysis reports for global and cross-portfolio initiatives, comparing current and future states to align with digital transformation frameworks.
• Fluent in strategic frameworks and tools such as OKR, Norton Kaplan Strategy Map, Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model, Business Motivation Model (BMM), Hoshin Kanri, SWOT Analysis, and Ansoff Product/Market Grid.
• Business and customer-focused mindset; ability to articulate complex regulatory and legal requirements and propose compliance options.
• Ability to delineate products using multidimensional views (e.g., parcel, freight, domestic, international) aligned to product families (e.g., shipping, packaging) and qualify product entitlements (e.g., warranties).
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Location Details

The preferred locations for this hybrid position are Memphis, TN, Pittsburgh, PA, or Plano, TX. Candidates residing within 50 miles of a FedEx campus will be required to work on-site at a FedEx location several times per week. Remote candidates elsewhere in the U.S. (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories) will also be considered.

Pay

• Memphis range: $9,719.96/mo - $16,523.93/mo
• Pittsburgh range: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo
• Plano range: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo