The primary responsibility of the Chief Business Architect is to consult and guide the identification of business value through the holistic conceptualization and refinement of business strategy, analysis, planning, and design of manual and automated enterprise-level solutions
Essential Functions:
- Simplify business and technology by driving the domains, the Business areas, and the Enterprise to a mutually agreed upon target state and constructing roadmaps to get to that goal
- Collaborate with other roles to drive Domain Preferred Future State (PFS) by developing a current-state fact base that highlights the domain's case for change (including pain-points, applications, and overview of a domain) and using business architecture to architect the processes and capabilities with Best-Better-Good (including scope and vision statements as well as business activities)
- Support Enterprise Architecture during strategic consultation to provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary enterprise design independent of OpCo, region, portfolio, or business unit; provide strategic decision-making support for Business and IT
- Support Enterprise and Portfolio Architecture in the demand operating model to turn enterprise strategy into actionable work through decomposition of FedEx's most strategic initiatives
- Participate and lead in Business Architecture Community of Practice/Excellence activities & sub-teams
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Business Architecture practice and discipline knowledge
- Strong strategic thinking, includes abstract reasoning and critical thinking skills
- Systems thinking, supports an engineered approach starting with the end in mind; mitigate the challenge of ongoing incrementalism challenges
- In-depth knowledge of company operations and of the broader FedEx Enterprise
- Ability to operate in vague / undefined space with limited direction or oversight
- Influential leadership skills required to promote collaboration at all levels of the enterprise across multiple domains
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Have advanced experience with architecture techniques in various projects and complexities
- Experience working with business capability or enterprise analysis.
- Demonstrate strong leadership, human relations, systems/design thinking, strategic thinking, and presentation/communication skills.
- Planning and organizing abilities.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including business area, system architect, and developer representation
- Ability to influence and enable change, as well as persuade others to move toward consensus.
Domicile Information: Domicile Information: This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.
Minimum EducationBachelors degree in engineering, business information systems, computer science, or a related quantitative discipline.
Minimum ExperienceSeven (7) years of relevant experience is required, with at least five (5) years in areas such as applications development or maintenance, transportation/logistics operations, business/enterprise analysis, business process modeling, business object or logical data modeling, business and/or IT standards/processes, metrics design/analysis, software design, and systems strategic planning.
Preferred Qualifications: Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.
Pay: US Pay Range: $8,007.29/month - $14,413.11/month
Additional Details: Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by 12/2/2024.
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. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com .
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- Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
- EEO is the Law Supplement
- Pay Transparency Policy
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act
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