Principal Business Architect (Open to Remote)

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to use tech to tackle housing’s biggest challenges and impact the future of the industry. You’ll be a part of an expert team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

As a valued contributor to our team, you will advise on processes and analyses to monitor business problems and/or opportunities, including process improvement, system enhancement, and training. In this role, you will support the development, networking, and/or project management of strategic business objectives.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Enterprise Architecture - Business Architecture - Principal role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Partner with business, product and technology leads to manage a team defining business cases, setting transformation goals and objectives to launch key initiatives.
• Identify innovation opportunities and use hands-on concepts like interactive prototyping, low fidelity POC’s to showcase potential business value while managing a team doing the same.
• Lead large discovery sessions with SME’s and stakeholder groups to formulate business outcomes, customer personas, journeys & experiences, prototyping and POC’s for solving complex business problems.
• In partnership with business sponsors and product leads, envision, plan, implement, communicate, promote and update the target business architecture over multiple time horizons.
• Manage other business architects across multiple value streams on actionable architecture, engagement and relationship building strategies.
• Build relationships across business, product and Tech stakeholder groups to become a trusted partner and advisor in making key decisions while managing staff to do the same.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8 years of experience in IT or Finance Industry
• Prior experience as a business architect
• Bachelor degree or equivalent

Desired Experiences

• MBA in Finance and/or Capital Markets experience is preferred.
• Experience working with the Front office & Operations.
• In-depth knowledge of new technical capabilities with the ability to translate that knowledge, while training others, into business goals and objectives aligned to strategic priorities.
• Design thinking skills including hands-on prototyping, customer journey mapping, and persona development is a plus.
• The ability to make insightful, successful business decisions and tradeoffs assessing the internal and external business landscape, strategies, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options while managing resources to help the organization navigate the changing environment.
• Possess engagement management skills including nurturing stakeholder relationships, prompt response to requests, and proactively identifies business opportunities while managing others to do the same.
• A history of defining and new, original ideas and successfully managing a team implementing them across a diverse organization.

Skills

• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand.
• Successfully manage multiple competing work efforts across multiple teams. Involves assessing impacts, importance and urgency and setting direction and expectations - to meet or exceed expectations for timeliness and quality of work.
• Skilled in supporting, controlling, monitoring, and management of large, complex, and sometimes geographically dispersed IT infrastructure and applications to optimize IT service delivery.
• Business Process Management including business process modeling, process design and implementation, etc.
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion.
• Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options and identifying resources to meet the defined objectives.
• Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives.
• Skilled in creating visual concepts, creating content, and editing content by hand or with the help with computer software to communicate ideas.
• Operational Excellence including improving and overseeing operations.

Tools

• Experience with SAFe and Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of AWS suite of products
• Skilled in ARIS Express
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence
• Skilled in using OneNote.
• Skilled in Microsoft suite of products

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.

Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company. We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration. This role is classified as (Open to Remote). If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.