Business Architecture Associate Director

Role Summary
Leads business architecture workstreams to align strategy, operating model, processes, capabilities, and technology with client business goals. Drives transformation initiatives, shapes target-state designs, and advises senior stakeholders on business value realization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business architecture engagements and workstreams across complex transformation programs
• Define business capabilities, value streams, operating models, and organizational implications
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable business architecture roadmaps
• Facilitate workshops with client leadership and cross-functional teams
• Assess current-state processes, pain points, and capability gaps
• Design target-state business models, governance, and service delivery approaches
• Partner with technology, data, change, and program teams to ensure aligned execution
• Develop business cases, transformation plans, and executive-level presentations
• Manage client relationships and provide trusted advisor support to senior stakeholders
• Coach junior team members and contribute to practice development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• Extensive experience in business architecture, operating model design, or enterprise transformation
• Strong knowledge of business capability modeling, process design, and organizational change
• Experience leading workshops, stakeholder alignment, and large-scale transformation efforts
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work with senior executives and cross-functional global teams
• Experience with architecture frameworks, business process tools, and transformation methods
• Consulting experience preferred; MBA or relevant certification is a plus

Preferred Skills

• Business capability mapping
• Target operating model design
• Process improvement and transformation
• Strategic planning and business case development
• Stakeholder management and executive communication
• Change management and value realization
• Data-driven decision making
• Program and project leadership

Sample Success Measures

• Quality and adoption of target-state business architecture
• Stakeholder alignment across business and technology teams
• Measurable business outcomes and value realization
• Timely delivery of transformation milestones
• Team leadership and capability development

Bachelors Degree

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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