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Business Architecture Manager, Managing Director
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Monterey Park, CA, United States
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Join a financial group that’s as committed to your future as you are. At MUFG, we share a vision for our future, we share our successes, and we strive to bring out the best in each other in everything we do. Our 14,000 diverse colleagues are connected by a common ambition to create change for the better—from forging more dynamic career paths, to driving progress in our communities, to continuously reshaping the standards of global financial services. Positive impact starts here; see the change you can make as we strive to become the world’s most trusted financial group.
Job Summary:
The Managing Director of Business Architecture, reports into the Enterprise Architecture organization and plays a key role in structuring the enterprise in terms of its governance structure, business processes, and business information. This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services; partners and suppliers; organization; capabilities; and key business and IT initiatives. The Business Architect works to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques. Is responsible to assist MUB in transforming its culture, operating policies, and systemic capabilities from the current baseline into an organization that embraces change at the speed our customers demand, with the care & efficiency our regulators expect, while mitigating risks our shareholders rely upon. The first task will include responsibility for insuring the initial migration of the ecosystem/peripherals of applications that rely upon or touch the core deposit banking software platforms are transitioned to a state that will facilitate the core platform transformation utilizing an approach of automation, standardized interfaces, and consistency. We will strive for an end to end business view per capability. Once initial business conversions are completed, this role will continue driving future state capabilities by partnering with the P&L business owners. This role will strive to enhance customer experience and facilitate organization wide renewal using the same strategic approach.
Organization:
The Business Architect reports into Enterprise Architecture and works closely with business teams to align technical solutions with business needs. The Business Architect may have supervisory responsibility, possibly acting as coach and mentor to junior members of the Business Architecture Center of Excellence. In addition, the Business Architect works though others at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives, and supporting business unit managers as they leverage business architecture artifacts to create their business plans. Finally, the Business Architect may provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various business scenarios, and delivery of bottom line business value.
Major Responsibilities:
Setup a business architecture practice
• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Capabilities Target Architecture (CTA) is an annual planning activity to insure the highest priority business capabilities are mapped to our existing systems inventory, and prioritized as a road map for execution in any given year to address gaps in our target state.
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are 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.
Strategy, Goal Alignment and Governance
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Business Architecture efforts include examining current state application architectures to insure conversion movement towards target state are done in the most effective manner. Examples may include (but are not limited to) … Application Consolidation (reducing the number of applications to fewer)
◦ API Strategy (application construction techniques that enable re-use)
◦ Functional Consolidation (moving similar functions from applications to a single source, such as reporting to a single reporting system, rather than in-line)
◦ QA & Audit Strategy (developing processes for audit of converted functions to insure they match the capabilities specified and achieve the results intended)
• Partnering with technical resources to ensure holistic interface implementation
Partner with Strategy & Innovation functions
• Creation of new business architectures that blend process, systems, and human capital strategies to align with emerging capabilities our customers demand. It is not enough to have the vision; this role must be capable of drawing up innovative implementation strategies to achieve the vision: centered around people, process, and technology in that order.
• Examination of emerging industry technologies from a purely business perspective; assigning true operational costs (or cost reduction opportunities); gauging organization impacts (from a training or cultural impact / employee resistance perspective); and revenue potential (or compliance adherence) opportunity perspective. Consolidating what the real opportunities might be for MUB and providing concise recommendations of the same.
• Managing vendor relationships as needed with primary technical and service providers for 3yr product road-maps, as well as issue management. Primary providers (whether service or technical [in house or external]) often require tight working partnerships in order to insure desired features needed at MUB become part of the product or service road maps they intend to deliver generally to all customers. This relationship is not about managing negotiations or purchasing, but about managing the relationship after MUB is already a customer and is looking to influence strategy with our providers as the relationships mature. In addition, most providers suffer from issues (whether features that do not work as expected, or do not perform as advertised), that require oversight in order to insure fixes are created, tested, and implemented at MUB.
Oversight of all planning, prioritizing, and executing business capabilities from their existing state to target state. This will encompass all aspects of execution including but not limited to: …
• Organizational changes related to future state capabilities
• Automation of capabilities
• Consistency of implementation approach
• Testing strategy and implementation to insure the latest techniques are run in an SDLC testing framework environment in parallel with production to reduce risk and meet governance standards, prior to actual production release
• Oversight of the creation of KPI measurements, ongoing analytics, and reporting of the same to demonstrate the success of these functions
Qualifications
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• Must have an MBA and a sound background in marketing and finance
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• 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
• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.; They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Why Work for MUFG Corporation?
• We are a financially strong and stable bank.
• We value workplace diversity.
• We are committed to the training and development of our employees.
• Innovative vacation benefits.
• We offer a matching 401k, a Retirement Plan, a variety of Flexible Health Benefits.