Business Architect - Cigna Healthcare- Hybrid

Summary:

The Business Architect Sr Advisor is responsible for identifying and presenting key business capabilities & impacts of new initiatives within the US Employer portfolio.

This role requires a deep understanding of our business strategy, organizational hierarchy, technology landscape and business processes to do impact analysis, support estimation processes and support business operational readiness, process engineering and testing.

Role: The Business Architecture Sr Advisor supports the Business Architecture practice for US Employer.

This includes driving strategic engagements with business and technology leaders, partnering with business processes, product and solution teams, and supporting in the use of business architecture best in class frameworks and guidance.

This role will maintain strong connectivity across the US Employer team, with matrixed partners across the Enterprise to ensure the initiative architecture is positioned to achieve interim and long-term success through the support of scope and impact assessment and solutioning for that strategic priority.

This role requires high levels of influence across business and technology enterprise organizations, extensive business knowledge and innovative problem-solving skills.

This role is expected to serve as a trusted partner and advisor at all levels within the company.

Responsibilities:


* Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business strategy and objectives


* Drive progress towards strategic business goals of the organization through new program initiatives and foundational enhancements


* Develop and maintain end-to-end business architecture artifacts, such as conceptual diagrams, heat maps, roadmaps.


* Work closely with Enterprise Architecture and Technology leadership to ensure technology solutions meet and align with business needs


* Ensure alignment between business architecture and delivery teams like business process engineering, operational readiness and business acceptance testing


* Deliver on impact assessments to enable business architecture for existing/new capabilities and decomposes new business initiatives


* Ensures clarity of what is needed to achieve strategic goals and priorities and is responsible for assessing and identifying needs leveraging opportunities across Enterprise, including Evernorth to enable decisions and recommendations


* Communicate the "big picture" to Business stakeholders to achieve alignment on target states and roadmap


* Drive continuous improvement and communicate periodic refreshes and governance of Business Architecture frameworks and best practices - partnering with stakeholders to address gaps and develop new models/approaches as necessary


* Support stakeholder experience journey mapping when needed


* Provides leadership & guidance to make recommendations and collaborate with business to meet business needs


* Supports development of new and innovative business capab...