Principal Business Architect

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Business Architect to support strategic planning and business architecture activities across a product portfolio. Situated between Product Managers and Solution Architects, this leader will drive cross-functional alignment on business capabilities and transformation priorities, ensuring solutions are scalable, effective, and aligned with long-term business goals. The role requires balancing strategic planning with execution, identifying capability gaps and emerging opportunities, influencing stakeholders across complex organizations, and enabling teams to deliver measurable business value through modernization and transformation initiatives.

Define and Maintain

• Business capability maps
• Target-state operating models
• Strategic roadmaps

Identify and Develop

• Capability gaps
• Dependencies
• Risks
• Modernization opportunities
• Recommendations

Partner and Influence

• Product
• Technology
• Operations
• Risk
• Data
• Business leaders

Support Portfolio Planning

• Business case development
• Roadmap governance

Lead Complex Cross-Functional Initiatives

• Influence stakeholders across multiple organizations

Translate Strategy into Capabilities

• Technology architecture
• Business operating model

Ensure Strategic Intent

• Throughout planning
• Solution design
• Execution activities

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Business Architecture certification or equivalent experience in capability modeling, value stream analysis, or operating model design
• Experience within financial services, consumer lending, cards, payments, servicing, loyalty, or decisioning domains

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting product operating models, portfolio planning, investment planning, or roadmap governance processes
• Experience leading enterprise modernization, simplification, or transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with business architecture frameworks, capability-based planning, customer journey mapping, and target-state operating model development
• Experience developing executive-level business cases, strategic assessments, and investment recommendations
• Experience translating business strategy into business capabilities, operating models, roadmaps, or large-scale transformation initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across complex, matrixed organizations
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, facilitation, and executive communication skills
• Experience partnering across Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Data, and business teams to deliver strategic outcomes
• Proven ability to identify dependencies, risks, and opportunities across large portfolios and develop actionable recommendations