Business Architect

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Business Architect

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Atlanta

Georgia

About Deloitte Consulting’s Catalyst Group

Deloitte Consulting’s Catalyst (https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/solutions/catalyst-innovation-corporate-startup-collaboration.html?id=us:2ps:3gl:confidence:eng:cons:82319:nonem:na:7UIc6rLm:1161156839:379166851581:e:Brand_Catalyst:Brand_Catalyst_General_Exact:br) group evaluates and develops solutions that augment the firm’s leading core services, creating hybrid offerings comprised of technology and services to address our clients’ most pressing business challenges. Our technology asset-based consulting agenda is designed to deliver tangible results in the near-term and a sustainable competitive advantage for the firm in years to come.

Deloitte Catalyst is an organization within Deloitte Consulting with the goal of building a culture of continuous innovation to drive profitable revenue through the identification, incubation, and actualization of breakthrough ideas in hybrid offerings. More specifically, the Product Management & Design group, of which this role is a part, is responsible for designing, building, supporting and delivering groundbreaking new products, while managing our existing portfolio of software, analytics and SaaS-based products.

We are looking for people who share our passion for translating ideas into relevant and innovative products to solve business problems.

Key Responsibilities

The Business Architect is responsible for applying a business lens to market needs and defining the structure for software solutions in terms of key stakeholders, high-level interactions, capabilities, user stories, and any specific business requirements. The Business Architect is capable of decomposing moderate to complex problems into logical components that accurately capture the needs of users and depict the ideal solution.

Research, develop, and document business architecture deliverables such as user personas, context diagrams, capability maps, detailed user stories, demo storyboard, and business requirements.

Conduct gap analysis of current to target state business architecture (in case of existing solutions) and define roadmap and plans to achieve target state

Collaborate with advisory support staff (business and product SMEs) and downstream teams (e.g. development, UI design) to obtain inputs, drive decisions, and solicit feedback used to develop, refine, and finalize business architecture deliverables.

Maintain product backlog.

Scope, plan, and drive working sessions and weekly checkpoints with management, advisory support staff, and downstream teams.

Provide input and clarifications to downstream teams (UI designers, solution architecture, development, testing).

Provide inputs to revise and finalize UI wireframes / mockups which will be used along with user stories and any specific requirements to design, build, and test the artifact (concept / prototype / product).

Documenting key decisions, action items, and notes from meetings and distributes to necessary stakeholders.

Coach and mentor the teams on methodology, frameworks, tools, and templates.

Monitor and drive progress of documentation of business architecture deliverables against project timelines.

Establish and perform typical scrum processes and ceremonies (e.g., stand-ups, grooming, and retrospectives).

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

2 years of Business Architect experience (or equivalent)

Preferred Skills:

JIRA

MS Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel

Agile software development

Fluent in agile: epics, themes, user stories

Exposure to product management methodologies such as Pragmatic Institute

Business process modeling

User stories development

Requirements gathering and definition

Persona development

Storyboarding

Stakeholder interviewing and management

Test case development, manual testing, and defect management

Professional Skills Requirements:

Ability to work well with product owners, business and technical subject matter experts, product delivery managers, creative designers, technical architects, software developers, offshore delivery teams, and testers

Ability to lead workshops with medium-large groups of diverse participants in-person and virtually

Project management, planning, and organization

Documentation of deliverables and meeting outcomes

Strong sense of ownership, and responsibility for deliverables

Coaching and mentoring of new team members

Strong verbal and written English communication

Highly diligent, comfortable with ambiguity and solving complex problems, and flexible with willingness to stretch comfort zones to meet product, team, and competency goals.

*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

How You’ll Grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center. (https://zoomforth.com/s/deloitte/du#home)

Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you. (http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/life-at-deloitte-benefits-and-rewards.html)

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