Business Architect - Cigna Healthcare- Hybrid (Finance)
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
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 109,000 - 181,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
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. That's why you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll 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 .
About Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.
The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.
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