Senior Business Architect

USAA

. Provide direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $103,450 - $197,730 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
Support Senior Strategy Officer and line of business senior executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
Execute business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
Translate/decompose/deconstruct and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives.
Contribute to the design of and facilitates current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (i.e., capability-based planning).
Apply and utilize business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
Serve as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
Facilitate, negotiate, and represent business' interests in maturation and investment in business architecture.
Facilitate the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
Contribute to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree: OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Minimum 6 years’ relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development.
Minimum 2 years’ hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services.
Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile).
Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes.
Knowledge and application of industry standard business and enterprise architecture meta modeling, tooling, and frameworks (BIZBOK®, TOGAF®).
Experience in the application of business architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
401(k)
pension
life insurance
parental benefits
adoption assistance
paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
various wellness programs
career path planning and continuing education

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Hard Skills & Tools

business architecturecapability-based planningbusiness capability assessmentsstrategy translationbusiness modeling methodsrisk managementrelationship mappingvalue stream mappingbusiness strategy blueprintsportfolio decision-making

Soft Skills

influencenegotiationcommunicationfacilitationcross-functional leadershipanalytical thinkingstrategic thinkingcollaborationpresentation skillsproblem-solving