Sr IT Business Architect-REMOTE

About the role

CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) is a leading insurance and financial services company focused on securing the future of middle‑income America. Through brands such as Bankers Life, Colonial Penn, Optavise, and Washington National, CNO delivers life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits to more than 3.3 million policyholders, supported by $38.3 billion in total assets. With a strong financial foundation, national presence, and a culture rooted in integrity, excellence, and people‑first values, CNO offers meaningful opportunities for professional growth and impact across its U.S. locations, including its headquarters in Carmel, Indiana. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Independently evaluate business technology requests of moderate complexity and lead/ conduct analysis needed to define the scope, sizing and requirements to implement business technology requests.
• Formulate and define systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business solutions and business requirements.
• Work as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, organize, evaluate and validate needs for changes to business workflows and information systems.
• Lead moderately to complex projects and create, with limited support, process mapping, value chain mapping, conceptual design specifications and use case artifacts.
• Create business capability views, capability heatmaps, value stream analysis, high-level business context diagrams, information mapping documents, perform root cause analysis and similar artifacts.
• Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of respective programs.
• Independently identify opportunities to streamline process and enable continuous improvement; identify alternative approaches to enable informed decision making.
• Prepare communications and presentations related to business systems, processes, and analysis efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business, Economics or equivalent.
• 7 years of proven business experience as a business architect, consultant, and or a similar role.
• Knowledge of Insurance domain.
• Strong working knowledge of IT systems and corresponding business applications including knowledge of various organizational functions, customers, and their processes to lead successful system implementations.
• Ability to work as a collaborative part of the project team in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Solid technical knowledge of IT business systems (including corresponding applications) and how they integrate with corresponding business area supported.
• Conduct research into project and technology related issues independently to identify potential resolutions and implement desired resolution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and can explain complex information.
• Ability to use communication skills to build consensus across teams and functions.
• Knowledge of business capability model, operating model, analytical tools and techniques to provide recommendations regarding business solutions as this role will analyze and solve complex business problems.
• Ability to balance competing priorities, and successfully complete tasks while navigating sensitive topics and team dynamics.
• Expertise with Microsoft Office, Visio, and other business-related software.

Skills

• Certified Business Architecture (CBA) – preferred.
• Experience in strategic business transformations/innovations – preferred.
• Candidate location in Central or Eastern US time zone preferred OR willingness to work Central or Eastern time zone business hours – preferred.

Benefits