Principal Business Architect

Company: Nike, Inc.
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: March 24, 2020

Job Description:

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

If you're ready to innovate and lead in the Business Architecture space, join Nike's Enterprise Architecture & Platforms organization! You will be part of an organization that is revolutionizing Nike technology platforms and architecting a technology landscape that is simplified, modern, flexible and will ultimately enable Nike on its journey into 2020 and beyond.

The Business Architecture team will partner and engage with business and technology leaders across all the business functions within the enterprise in planning, creating, and maintaining a capability model that is aligned to the overall company and functional strategies to ensure that the people, process, data insights/information, and technology opportunities are accurately gathered and planned for short, medium and long-term execution.

As a Principal Business Architect, you will be part of a strategic team focused on aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. You will deliver a blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the capabilities required to run the business.

This role will engage, collaborate and partner with various functional business leaders, technical leaders and executive stakeholders to understand long and short-term business strategies, assess current & target capability maturity as input into prioritization and investment decisions, provide thought leadership and engage in proactive business capability planning to enable our strategic business priorities, intended business outcomes and values. This role will also be responsible for continuing to establish the practice of Business Architecture within Nike and will bring broad experiences in driving quality & consistency across business architecture methodology and deliverables enterprise wide.

Key Responsibilities
Drives and facilitates the right discussions with business leaders to identify business capabilities in relation to current and future business objectivesCreate and maintain business capability, data, process and technology inventories. Work with multiple capability and functional teams to gather and document the structure of Nike's business and technology landscape.Lead, build, handle, enhance business capability model along maturity / optimization framework to drive enablement of the longer-term roadmapPartner in the strategic planning process by providing input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging capabilities, creating capability heatmaps to provide visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities. Key Deliverables include (but not limited to): Capability Model, Capability Heatmaps, Capability Maturity Assessments, Capability Impact Assessments, Capability Health Assessments & Capability RoadmapsWorks closely with Domain & Solution architects to deliver business architecture outputs needed for End to End Architecture & Solution Architecture deliverablesPresents recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely and is able to focus on key points to portray the intended message or purposeAdvocate and drive adoption of "best practices" to ensure standardization of business architecture outputs across the enterpriseTakes an active role in enterprise portfolio investment strategies by assessing and rationalizing proposed enterprise capabilitiesBusiness thinking and highly strategic in order to provide practical recommendations that align with corporate strategyEffectively handle priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for escalation

WHAT YOU BRING TO NIKE

To rock this job, you will have:
Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business or a related field5+ years' experience preferred in performing the responsibilities of business architecture, capability planning/management, or similar experiences; overall 8-10 years of professional experience preferredLarge enterprise experienceDemonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills - ability to work cooperatively at all levels in matrix environmentStrong facilitation skills and experience in handling senior stakeholder relationship, partnership and interactionsExceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate strategic business strategy, capability and architecture conversations with all stakeholders (management, business users, and technology resources)Self-starter with high motivation and passion who thrives in an ever-changing, fast-paced business environment with the ability to adapt to changeStrong leadership, confidence, and influencing skills. High level of executive presence.Strong understanding of Agile driven development, Product model & bias towards action

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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