Business Architect/Product Manager *Location:* MN Minneapolis
Duration : 6 months *Additional Job Details*: The Business Architect/Product Manager will support the online client experience strategy and interactive execution by driving key initiatives and partnering with contributors across business units. This role will focus on strategy, concepting, project delivery and implementation of the online capabilities and roadmaps within the overall online client experience while providing support across the client team. This position reports to Product Director. *Required Qualifications* · 5-7 years of experience in consulting, financial services marketing, interactive marketing or related field. · Strong communication and presentation skills. · Proven success independently leading interactive initiatives. · Manages multiple priorities and thrives in a rapidly changing environment. · Must possess a solid understanding of online technologies and best practices, ideally with 3 or more years experience managing web applications and familiarity with user interface/user experience principles. · Ability to effectively build and leverage relationships in a matrix organization. *Preferred Qualifications* · Financial services, agency background, or B2C marketing experience. · Previous experience managing large interactive/digital/online projects. · Experience working within Agile process methodologies. *Description/Comment:* The Business Architect is responsible for translating the business and functional strategy and plans in to the domain-specific capabilities and business solutions necessary to deliver the strategy. By challenging the status quo, identifying improvement opportunities, building functional models, operational business architectures and various enterprise architecture models that link business and technology concepts they will improve the effectiveness, efficiency of the business and the customer centricity of the technology organization. - Develop a business architecture strategy for multiple domains, applying a structured approach and methodology for capturing key views of the business. Work as an effective liaison between the business and technology to effectively influence and negotiate decisions as they relate to the domain strategies. Define and maintain strategy to ensure technology solutions support business needs and strategies within cost, schedule and scope. Create and own a multi-year roadmap for capabilities within the domains. - Provide strategic leadership in defining and designing the end-to-end technology solution models for the business. Drive consistency and optimization of business processes and technology solutions across capabilities within the domain. Assist business and technical designers in understanding design choices. Provide recommendations to preserve integrity across the various strands of change and ensure the delivery of holistic, integrated solutions. - Work with the business to understand and define business processes that meet goals and objectives and maximize the value proposition of the technology solution. Analyze the existing domains to determine whether opportunities exist to create competitive advantages, cost efficiencies and/or revenue growth. Perform current state assessment to identify people, process, technology and information gaps to develop transformation roadmap and help create the supporting cost-benefit analysis (CBA). - Drive the development and adoption of a consistent business architecture practice that includes consistent modeling tools and processes; industry leading best practices; templates and standard deliverables. Act as the custodian of the business architecture standards, methods, conceptual and logical designs. Establish and maintain strong working relationships with senior business, operations and technology management teams in the capacity of a trusted advisor on business architecture matters. - Manage the domain requirements and design processes, ensuring alignment with Ameriprise business and technology strategies and enterprise business architecture strategy. In partnership with Capability Domain Owners (CDO), provide strategic product management leadership through brainstorming product concepts and requirements definition that align with the business' need for emerging technology solutions. Provide solution design expertise and support for technology projects. Develop and apply expert knowledge of related business capabilities, customer and market requirements as well as enterprise and business architecture discipline. Build and maintain a strong business unit relationship, with deep expertise and insight in to the business, the business strategy and the industry. Continuously monitor the market to gain knowledge and understanding of emerging technologies." - Senior and Executive Levels: Build and develop an effective organization with appropriate skills, organization structure, and direction to satisfy current and future business needs. This includes assisting with: recruitment, performance feedback, coaching/mentoring, career planning and budget management. Lead and oversee a team of business architecture professionals that are accountable for delivering business architecture services at Ameriprise. Facilitate the professional growth and development of the business architecture team. -- Thanks & Regards Rathna kumar Bourntec Solutions, Inc., Phone: 847 780 1045 rat...@bourntec.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "oraapps" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oraapps+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to oraapps@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/oraapps. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
