Business Solutions Architect

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POSITION SUMMARY: The Enterprise Architecture team provides architectural and technology leadership that enables the evolution of Republic Services' business capabilities. The Business Solution Architect reports into Enterprise Architecture and plays an integral role in business transformation by ensuring alignment of strategic business goals with decisions regarding business, people, process, information and technology investment decisions. Working cross-functionally and across various levels of the organization, the Business Solution Architect is responsible for clarifying the objectives of the strategic roadmap, defining the baseline and target states of key business activities, and identifying gaps between the current and target states. The Business Architect works closely with Enterprise Architects to create deliverables and develop recommendations for Business and IT leaders that guide strategic business decision-making.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with key stakeholders within the organization to define and document current business processes, intended business outcomes, and operational challenges related to various operational activities using standard modeling frameworks.
• Collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business to develop succinct and actionable insights.
• Recognize and articulate the implications and interdependencies of new organizational processes, and key IT and business initiatives.
• Communicate the business process implications of technology implementations to stakeholders.
• Develop a central repository of Business Architecture artifacts to provide traceability through the organization and aid in ongoing governance.
• Develop and maintain a business capability execution roadmap.
• Perform impact and risk analysis and identify when initiatives need to be scaled up and adopted more widely.
• Understand and translate business needs into functional requirements.
• Define the external entities (e.g.; customers, suppliers, and external systems) that interact with the business; and the people, resources and controls involved in the processes.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.
• Assist with the design, implementation, and monitoring of initiatives designed to improve the digital maturity of the IT department.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture practice
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues.
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Team player with strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively at all levels of an organization.
• The ability to identify opportunities for process improvement throughout the organization and be able to showcase ideas and get consensus on solutions.
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
• Bachelor's degree in Business Management or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in planning and deploying business and IT initiatives.

The statements used herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by an employee in this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required by an incumbent so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.

Rewarding Compensation and Benefits

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.• Health care and dependent care spending accounts. • Short- and long-term disability.• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).• Employee discount programs.• 401(k) plan with a generous company match.• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

The statements used herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by an employee in this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required by an incumbent so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.

Republic Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, relationship or association with a protected veteran (spouses or other family members), genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.