Business Architect

Role: Business Architect

Company: Arch Systems

Client: US Federal Govt.

Location: Remote - Travel As required by the Federal Government assignment.

Type: Full-time

Position Summary

Arch Systems is hiring a Business Architect for a contractor team that supports enterprise architecture at Federal Government. The team runs an authoritative enterprise software governance capability, a Federal Government capability that gives the Federal Government one current, traceable record of the software it owns, what it costs and who approved it. You will design how software requests move through one governed path, from idea to adjudicated and delivered work. You will also build the evidence behind portfolio and investment decisions. Your work helps Federal Government decide faster and with better evidence, cut duplicate software, and keep its approved software reliable.

What You Will Do

There are 2 focus areas to cover. Process and Intake and Alternatives and Investment.

Process and Intake

Map the current and future-state processes for ideas, demands, software requests and the approved software list node by node, and state the differences between them.

Design the unified intake, including:

• The intake questions
• Priority rules based either on mandate (law, policy, executive order) or on ease, cost and speed
• The discovery outcomes: a recommended solution, or not enough information

Write the routing decision table:

• New software goes to technical approval board.
• Version updates and renewals go to fulfillment.
• Record checks close unsupported requests and alert the requestor automatically.

· Write regression test scenarios from the process changes. The Government's ServiceNow team automates and runs the tests.

· Run discovery across people, process and technology. Group requests by capability and find duplicates and already-approved tools that meet the need.

· Build the question dictionary with the data team: each common data element, its definition and the role that answers it.

· Produce guidance for requestors on presenting a request to technical approval board and on giving demonstrations.

Alternatives and Investment

• Supply the comparison behind each recommended solution that comes out of discovery.
• Bring the authoritative software record comparisons up to a standard federal AoA, in support of AoAs that the Government leads and signs.
• Add the mission need, measures of effectiveness and the status quo as an alternative.
• Build life-cycle cost estimates that state their basis.
• Apply a stated risk method, weighted criteria and a sensitivity analysis.
• Prepare Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) inputs from the record.
• Design the financial management view of the portfolio.

Across the Role

• Create target-state process models for the relevant Federal Government business division.
• Validate the current ("as is") state with subject matter experts.
• Plan, facilitate and document Business Process Working Group sessions.
• Work daily with the demand process owner, technical approval board, divisional request contacts, the Government's ServiceNow and software licensing teams, and the CPIC and acquisition program offices.
• Produce work in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio that meets Section 508 accessibility standards.
• Your role is to recommend. You do not decide a request, set its priority, lead or sign an AoA, or select an alternative.

What You Bring

• Experience in business process architecture and enterprise architecture, including modeling current and target states.
• Experience designing requirements and tests, including turning process changes into test scenarios.
• Knowledge of Federal Government acquisition practice for analysis of alternatives.
• Knowledge of Capital Planning and Investment Control.
• Skill in facilitating working sessions with business subject matter experts and documenting the results.
• Clear writing for decision tables, process models and analysis that executives and governance boards read.
• Comfort working in a collaborative setting where Government staff and other contractor teams own the decisions and the systems.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF).
• Experience with ServiceNow intake, routing or demand management processes.
• Knowledge of the Federal Government Systems Engineering Life Cycle and Federal Government acquisition review gates.
• Experience reviewing or scoring IT business cases for annual budget submissions.
• Experience with Agile methods such as Kanban and Lean.
• Familiarity with JIRA.
• Experience comparing AI-capable tools in crowded software categories.

Certifications, Clearance and Eligibility

• Requirements are subject to the applicable Federal Government agency, position sensitivity determination and contract. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust background investigation are required.
• Place of performance: At a Federal Government-designated facility or approved work location, as required by the assignment.
• Hours: Follow the assigned Federal Government program schedule, excluding federal holidays; occasional adjustments may be required for priority deadlines.
• Telework: Subject to applicable Federal Government policies, required training and approval.
• Equipment: Use Government-furnished equipment where required. Personal or company storage devices may be prohibited.
• Travel: As required by the Federal Government assignment.