The Business Architect role involves aligning business strategies with technology solutions, designing architectures, and advising senior leaders to optimize operations.
Valorem Reply is an award-winning digital transformation firm specializing in data-driven enterprise solutions, IT modernization, customer experience, product transformation, and digital workplace innovation using Microsoft technologies. We enable clients to securely and rapidly transform their operations with strategic business models and agile digital solutions.
As a Business Architect, you will serve as a strategic advisor who bridges the gap between business vision and technology implementation. You will design comprehensive business architectures that align organizational capabilities with technology solutions, ensuring seamless integration between business processes, data flows, and technical infrastructure. This role demands deep expertise in enterprise architecture, business process optimization, and stakeholder management across all organizational levels.
Responsibilities
- Develop comprehensive business architecture blueprints that align organizational strategy with technology capabilities
- Define business capability maps and assess current-state versus future-state architecture gaps
- Serve as a trusted business advisor to C-suite executives and senior leadership, providing strategic guidance on technology-enabled business transformation
- Guide clients through complex decision-making processes regarding technology investments and business model innovations
- Analyze existing business processes and recommend architectural improvements for efficiency and scalability
- Design organizational operating models that support digital transformation goals
- Establish business architecture standards, frameworks, and methodologies across the enterprise
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, and technical teams to ensure business requirements are properly translated into technical specifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Information Systems, or related field
- 10 years experience with focus on Marketing strategy and operations, Partner Incentive program design, management, and optimization
- Proven experience designing and implementing Sales Force Automation (SFA) solutions and CRM strategies
- Strong background in Go-to-Market strategy development and execution across multiple channels
- Experience in Sales/ Partner Channel Development, Management
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior executive stakeholders
Preferred qualifications
- Management Consulting experience
- Enterprise Technology Platform Experience: Direct experience working with or implementing solutions from major technology companies including Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, F5, Amazon (AWS), and Meta platforms
- Background in channel partner management and partner ecosystem development
- Experience with marketing technology stack integration and marketing operations
- Knowledge of incentive compensation design and sales performance management
- Business Process Automation: Proven experience designing and implementing workflow automation, robotic process automation (RPA), and intelligent document processing solutions
- AI-Driven Strategy Development: Experience with AI/ML solution architecture, including predictive analytics, recommendation engines, and automated decision-making systems for business optimization
- Operational Efficiency Optimization: Track record of identifying and implementing process improvements that deliver measurable ROI, cost reduction, and productivity gains
About Reply
Reply specializes in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Reply is a network of highly specialized companies supporting global industrial groups operating in the telecom and media, industry and services, banking, insurance and public administration sectors in the definition and development of business models enabled for the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services.
The base compensation range for this full-time position is between $130,000 - $180,000 plus benefits. Compensation decisions are supported through market data, where regional variances may exist based on cost of labor. We also take into consideration prior experience, relevant skills, education and/or training, certifications and, as applicable, other required qualifications. If you have questions regarding compensation, the talent acquisition team can provide relevant details during the interview process.
Reply is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to provide equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you need assistance and reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, email us at [email protected]. Visit our website at www.reply.com to learn more about our open roles.
Top Skills
Ai/Ml
Amazon Aws
F5
Google
Meta
Microsoft
Rpa
Salesforce
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