Sr Manager - Enterprise Business Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Establish Energy Transfer's business architecture practice including frameworks, tools, and standards
• Define and maintain the enterprise capability model, value stream maps, and business process architecture
• Govern platform and technology investment decisions from a business architecture perspective
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, processes, data, and enabling technology across transformation programs
• Partner with senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into operating model changes
• Design future-state operating models for key business domains undergoing transformation
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and improvement opportunities across the enterprise
• Support M&A integration planning by providing operating model analysis and architecture inputs
• Provide architectural oversight for enterprise platforms including CLM (Agiloft), data applications, and others
• Define standards for platform ownership, product governance, and lifecycle management
• Advise on build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions from a business capability standpoint
• Partner with IT to ensure business and technical architectures remain aligned
• Serve as a trusted advisor to VPs, Directors, and functional leaders across the enterprise
• Facilitate business architecture workshops to surface current-state challenges and inform future-state design
• Communicate complex architecture concepts in clear, business-facing language
• Build an internal business architecture community of practice over time

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise transformation, or management consulting
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing a business architecture function or practice
• Expertise in capability modeling, value stream mapping, business process architecture, and operating model design
• Strong executive stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience with enterprise platform implementations and governance
• Proficiency with architecture or process tools (e.g., LeanIX, Mega, Visio, ARIS, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree
• TOGAF or BIZBOK certification
• Experience in energy, midstream, or industrial sector
• Background in management consulting (Big 4, boutique strategy, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with CLM, ERP, or enterprise content management platforms