Burns McDonnell is excited to hire a Senior Business Architect working in our Kansas City, MO office. Working within the Enterprise Transformation Office (EXO), you’ll collaborate across teams to help Burns McDonnell scale, innovate, and thrive as “One Burns Mac” into next 125 years.
As aSenior Business Architect, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the future of our enterprise. This is your opportunity to turn strategy into action—aligning organizational goals and translating them into measurable, outcome-driven initiatives that drive real impact.
In this role, you will play a critical part in assessing and optimizing business capabilities and processes, creating clarity around their maturity, and identifying where to invest in improvements. You’ll architect the transformation from current to future state through structured planning and implementation—pinpointing impacted stakeholders, interrelated processes, and the capabilities needed to enable lasting change. This position will be focused on supporting initiatives related to Sales, Marketing, Client Experience, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, and Finance.
Successful candidates will:
Possess an understanding of the Business Architecture Guild’s BIZBOK concepts.Demonstrate an ability to analyze and visualize architecture in the context of the various business opportunities and challenges.Exhibit strong executive presence and a proven track record of effectively influencing decisions and outcomes while fostering highly professional relationships throughout the organization.Apply big picture and systems thinking to daily work.Essential Functions
Participate in the development and maturation of business architecture and process management practice to drive enablement of long-term roadmap.Lead business architecture analysis and business need assessments to identify opportunities to optimize business architecture and value streams, drive innovation, and enhance competitiveness.Develop enhanced operating model designs to improve standardization, efficiency, and effectiveness informed by architecture.Use various techniques including interviews, surveys, and workshops to discover, analyze and assess business architecture.Partner with stakeholders to conduct internal stakeholder analysis, industry best-practice analysis, and other analysis to inform decision making.Monitor, measure, and provide feedback on process and capability maturity and performance.Elicit and document high-level business requirements for transformation initiatives ensuring alignment with the broader organization's goals and objectives.Maintain the business architecture repository in accordance with business architecture and process management framework.Collaborate with Program/Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, and other teams to enable transformation initiatives.Collaborate with stakeholders in rolling out changes to the business or various departments.Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to less experienced staff.Responsible for QA/QC process adherence.Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.Performs other duties as assigned.Complies with all policies and standards.