Business Architect - Cigna Healthcare- Hybrid

Summary:

The Business Architect Sr Advisor is responsible for identifying and presenting key business capabilities & impacts of new initiatives within the US Employer portfolio. This role requires a deep understanding of our business strategy organizational hierarchy technology landscape and business processes to do impact analysis support estimation processes and support business operational readiness process engineering and testing.

Role: The Business Architecture Sr Advisor supports the Business Architecture practice for US Employer. This includes driving strategic engagements with business and technology leaders partnering with business processes product and solution teams and supporting in the use of business architecture best in class frameworks and guidance. This role will maintain strong connectivity across the US Employer team with matrixed partners across the Enterprise to ensure the initiative architecture is positioned to achieve interim and long-term success through the support of scope and impact assessment and solutioning for that strategic priority. This role requires high levels of influence across business and technology enterprise organizations extensive business knowledge and innovative problem-solving skills. This role is expected to serve as a trusted partner and advisor at all levels within the company.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business strategy and objectives
• Drive progress towards strategic business goals of the organization through new program initiatives and foundational enhancements
• Develop and maintain end-to-end business architecture artifacts such as conceptual diagrams heat maps roadmaps.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture and Technology leadership to ensure technology solutions meet and align with business needs
• Ensure alignment between business architecture and delivery teams like business process engineering operational readiness and business acceptance testing
• Deliver on impact assessments to enable business architecture for existing/new capabilities and decomposes new business initiatives
• Ensures clarity of what is needed to achieve strategic goals and priorities and is responsible for assessing and identifying needs leveraging opportunities across Enterprise including Evernorth to enable decisions and recommendations
• Communicate the big picture to Business stakeholders to achieve alignment on target states and roadmap
• Drive continuous improvement and communicate periodic refreshes and governance of Business Architecture frameworks and best practices partnering with stakeholders to address gaps and develop new models/approaches as necessary
• Support stakeholder experience journey mapping when needed
• Provides leadership & guidance to make recommendations and collaborate with business to meet business needs
• Supports development of new and innovative business capabilities
• Leads business architecture ensuring alignment with Technology Solution Architecture to close operational gaps upfront in the initiative delivery lifecycle that arise during/post implementation

Qualifications:

• 10 years of healthcare experience on large cross functional initiatives
• Experienced leader - Ability to lead communicate manage and influence cross functional teams
• Proven experience in architecture building visual diagrams and maps
• Strong interpersonal written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent ability to research analyze and solve problems
• Process-oriented with quality mindset strong organization and planning skills
• Demonstrated ability to drive results required
• Customer-orientation and customer insight/experience skills
• Ability to interpret and synthesize data insights
• Ability to leverage enterprise and industry insights to provide innovative solutions
• Ability to quickly create and implement contingency plans and solutions for problems that arise
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization
• Strong collaboration & relationship building skills

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy balanced and feel secure. Thats why youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match company paid life insurance tuition reimbursement a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs visit Life at Cigna Group.

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