
Business Architect Associate
Geisinger
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Assist in defining and evolving business architecture strategy based on situational awareness of enterprise scenarios, motivations, and constraints.
- Capture tactical and strategic enterprise goals, mapping them to metrics for ongoing governance and traceability.
- Describe the healthcare system’s primary business functions—distinguishing customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution, and business management functions.
- Define strategic, core, and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify external entities (e.g., patients, payers, suppliers, partner systems) and articulate people, resources, and controls involved.
- Analyze current-state vs. target-state business and technology architectures; contribute to roadmap development and phased implementation plans.
- Collaborate with client business and IT teams through shadowing, workshops, and process mapping to understand workflows and identify automation use cases.
- Evaluate opportunities from financial, operational, risk, compliance, and technical perspectives.
- Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of automation opportunities aligned to program goals and enterprise strategy.
- Design and develop automation architectures and reusable components that incorporate best practices and design guidelines.
- Address upstream and downstream workflows, including data inputs/outputs (e.g., exports), exception management, and integrations with clinical, revenue cycle, and administrative systems.
- Produce documentation across the lifecycle: assessments, solution/design documents, technical specifications, test plans, and performance dashboards.
- Provide input to project management and governance to ensure timely, compliant delivery of automation solutions.
- Consult on institute-facing projects; maintain awareness of scope, progress, risks, and interdependencies.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years-Relevant experience* (Required)
- Basic understanding of workflow or process mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart).
- Interest in automation technology (e.g., Power Automate, UiPath) and willingness to learn.
- Strong communication, documentation, and problem‑solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and follow established standards and procedures.
- Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and/or degree obtained (Associate's Degree = 2 years relevant experience; Bachelor's Degree = 4 years relevant experience; Master's Degree = 6 years ).
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.
- Encouragement of an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business architectureprocess mappingautomation architectureworkflow analysismetrics developmentdocumentation productionrisk evaluationcompliance assessmentsolution designperformance dashboard creation
Soft Skills
communicationdocumentationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsorganizational skillsadaptabilitystakeholder engagementproject management