Business Architect Lead

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

As a dedicated Business Architect Lead supporting the Property & Casualty Portfolio Management Office, you will play a pivotal role in delivering our organizational strategy, driving the successful execution of initiatives, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. In this role you will apply deep business knowledge and technical skills to increase strategy to execution alignment, set architecture strategy and governance for the holistic business ecosystem, guide cross-functional teams to systemically align business strategies and technology investments, and support portfolio planning, prioritization, and execution readiness processes.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

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

• Partner with Senior Strategy Officer and Line of Business Senior Executives to leverage insights to inform strategic choices, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.

• Design architecture approaches, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate business executives in business strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints).

• Design current and target state assessments, finding atypical yet compliant methods, to facilitate 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).

• Provide consultation on business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.

• Serve as the primary 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.

• Drive the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.

• Serve as the subject matter expert in the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.

• Provide business and technical mentorship to create and maintain role consistency and build the talent pipeline.

• 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.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.

• Minimum 8 years of 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 roadmap development.

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.

• Proven experience designing unique 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).

• Expert 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.

• Advanced 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. ​

What sets you apart:

• Prior U.S. military service or being a military spouse/domestic partner is highly valued.

• Minimum 3 years working in property and casualty insurance industry.

• Experience working with business partners in targeted conversations for early clarification of strategic intent and target state.

• Experience conducting various business architecture tasks in collaboration with PMO practices and methods (e.g., waterfall, SAFe/Agile).

• Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and sustaining ongoing business architectural artifacts and decision support to optimize value creation.

• Consistent track record of thinking, crafting and implementing solutions with a system-thinking, member-centric approach.

• Exceptional verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills to effectively convey insights to diverse audiences, including senior leadership.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $127,310.00 - $243,340.00.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include 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, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.