Senior Business Architect, Everyday Financial Services
ATB Financial
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Calgary, AB
Contract type: Full time
Remote
At ATB, we exist to make it possible for our clients, team members and communities. Our purpose is more than aspirational. It's a real commitment we live every day through our values (what we call the ATB ID ).
About
Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:
Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.
Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.
Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director, Business Architecture, we are looking for an experienced Senior Business Architect to complement our Everyday Financial Services (EFS) Business Architecture team. This team member will be responsible for helping to strategically build and manage our business architecture team for the Everyday Financial Services (EFS) business unit. They will partner with our internal and external SMEs to work collaboratively across the enterprise to ensure strategic alignment and serve as the bridge between multiple stakeholders to represent EFS priorities while identifying financial benefits. This role will be critical to identify and prioritize business capabilities required to enable our business strategy.
Our team prides itself on ensuring that excellent client and team member experiences are the outcome of every project we undertake. We are seeking a partner that keeps the voice of the client and team member in mind, is deeply curious about our business and is not afraid to challenge the status quo in pursuit of our goals. We are hungry to make big changes as we grow our business and need a partner who can harness our passion into thoughtful and well crafted projects and outcomes.
This role can be either hybrid or remote. If you live in Alberta, you’ll work both remote and onsite from an ATB corporate office, where time onsite is based on your job accountabilities and performance objectives. If you live outside of Alberta, you’ll work fully remote with occasional travel to ATB corporate locations in Alberta.
Accountabilities
Champion Business Architecture for EFS strategy: Act as a senior leader, championing Business Architecture and its Center of Excellence at ATB, and understanding business implications of current and future trends to drive purposeful innovation.
Align to and deliver on the EFS strategy: Create a 3-5 year roadmap of Business Capabilities for EFS, foster collaboration with CXT(Client Experience & Technology) partners ensuring alignment and understanding of EFS needs, and work with Technology Architects to guide solutions.
Manage Value Streams and requirements: Identify, create, and support Value Streams that drive EFS business metrics, develop high-level business case benefits for prioritization, and provide strategic requirements to business analysts for roadmap capabilities.
Build relationships and improve EFS processes: Develop and nurture relationships across business units, partners, and external vendors; evolve the EFS in-take process for continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement, and support the in-take process to ensure alignment with business architecture and strategy.
Skills, Experience And Requirements
Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen:
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes—we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.
We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
What happens next?
If you are shortlisted, you’ll hear from us after the posting closes. Check out our How We Hire page to learn more about our hiring process. If you need any accommodations throughout this process, please let us know at [email protected]
Stay in touch
We’re excited that you’re interested in a career with ATB. Follow us on LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram to learn more about what our team is up to.
About
Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:
Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.
Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.
Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director, Business Architecture, we are looking for an experienced Senior Business Architect to complement our Everyday Financial Services (EFS) Business Architecture team. This team member will be responsible for helping to strategically build and manage our business architecture team for the Everyday Financial Services (EFS) business unit. They will partner with our internal and external SMEs to work collaboratively across the enterprise to ensure strategic alignment and serve as the bridge between multiple stakeholders to represent EFS priorities while identifying financial benefits. This role will be critical to identify and prioritize business capabilities required to enable our business strategy.
Our team prides itself on ensuring that excellent client and team member experiences are the outcome of every project we undertake. We are seeking a partner that keeps the voice of the client and team member in mind, is deeply curious about our business and is not afraid to challenge the status quo in pursuit of our goals. We are hungry to make big changes as we grow our business and need a partner who can harness our passion into thoughtful and well crafted projects and outcomes.
This role can be either hybrid or remote. If you live in Alberta, you’ll work both remote and onsite from an ATB corporate office, where time onsite is based on your job accountabilities and performance objectives. If you live outside of Alberta, you’ll work fully remote with occasional travel to ATB corporate locations in Alberta.
Accountabilities
Champion Business Architecture for EFS strategy: Act as a senior leader, championing Business Architecture and its Center of Excellence at ATB, and understanding business implications of current and future trends to drive purposeful innovation.
Align to and deliver on the EFS strategy: Create a 3-5 year roadmap of Business Capabilities for EFS, foster collaboration with CXT(Client Experience & Technology) partners ensuring alignment and understanding of EFS needs, and work with Technology Architects to guide solutions.
Manage Value Streams and requirements: Identify, create, and support Value Streams that drive EFS business metrics, develop high-level business case benefits for prioritization, and provide strategic requirements to business analysts for roadmap capabilities.
Build relationships and improve EFS processes: Develop and nurture relationships across business units, partners, and external vendors; evolve the EFS in-take process for continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement, and support the in-take process to ensure alignment with business architecture and strategy.
Skills, Experience And Requirements
Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen:
- Enterprise-level thinking with a focus on the big picture
- Natural curiosity to drive client value and business results by questioning assumptions
- Strong business acumen and ability to quickly understand the organizational landscape
- Expert knowledge of Business Architecture principles and application
- Ability to develop and execute business strategies
- Proven skills in business problem-solving
- Ability to manage and coordinate business architecture initiatives through all phases
- Coordinate cross-functional teams for initiative delivery
- Assess and measure progress against deliverables, schedules, and KPIs
- Expertise in strategic planning, project framing, and business case development
- Work plan development, tracking, and milestone management
- Business Process Management expertise to identify improvement and automation opportunities
- Strong relationship management skills
- Ability to communicate vision to leadership using storytelling
- Ability to prioritize and manage expectations
- Experience with data reporting, visualization, and dashboarding
- Proficiency in descriptive and diagnostic analytics
- Deep understanding of Business Architecture methodologies and concepts
- 5+ years of experience applying business architecture practices in strategic initiatives
- Certification in a business architecture standard (asset)
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools like Archimate (asset)
- Experience in the Financial Industry (asset)
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes—we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.
We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
What happens next?
If you are shortlisted, you’ll hear from us after the posting closes. Check out our How We Hire page to learn more about our hiring process. If you need any accommodations throughout this process, please let us know at [email protected]
Stay in touch
We’re excited that you’re interested in a career with ATB. Follow us on LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram to learn more about what our team is up to.
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