Junior Enterprise Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business, technical, non-functional, and architecturally significant requirements.

• Evaluate current processes, capabilities, systems, applications, technologies, and integrations to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for enhancement.

• Create and sustain business and technical capability models, linking capabilities to business outcomes, requirements, enterprise standards, systems, and modernization efforts.

• Establish and uphold traceability among business needs, capabilities, requirements, architecture standards, decisions, and solution components.

• Assist in the development of current-state and future-state architecture views, solution plans, assessments, process flows, system diagrams, and related architectural artifacts.

• Contribute to the development of enterprise architecture standards, principles, procedures, and governance processes, including materials for architecture reviews and decision-making.

• Perform research, gap analysis, impact analysis, and alternatives analysis while formulating evidence-based recommendations.

• Lead stakeholder discussions and collaborate with architects, technical specialists, business stakeholders, project leaders, and vendors to address inquiries and progress toward decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• At least five years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, enterprise analysis, technology consulting, solution planning, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience in eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and managing complex business and technical requirements.

• Experience conducting current-state, future-state, gap, impact, or alternatives analysis.

• Skilled in establishing traceability among business needs, requirements, processes, systems, capabilities, or solution components.

• Ability to define ambiguous problems and develop clear, evidence-based conclusions and recommendations.

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, facilitation, and both written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams within Agile or iterative delivery environments.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira and Microsoft 365.

• Preferred: experience supporting enterprise, business, solution, application, data, or technology architecture initiatives.

• Preferred: experience with business or technical capability modeling, capability-based planning, or current-state and future-state architecture models.

• Preferred: experience supporting architecture standards, solution plans, architecture decision records, or formal governance processes such as an Architecture Review Board.

• Preferred: experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate, Visio, or Confluence, particularly in healthcare, Medicaid, government, or another regulated environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment that values diversity.