Business Architect, Oklahoma City, OK (First 4 weeks onsite and then complete Remote)

Summary: The Business Architect role involves defining and evolving enterprise architecture across business, technology, and integration domains, particularly within the Life and Annuity insurance sector. The position requires collaboration with IT and business leaders to develop capability models and support strategic initiatives. The role also includes roadmap planning, prioritization, and ensuring compliance with integration architecture standards. This is a long-term contract position that starts with four weeks on-site in Oklahoma City before transitioning to remote work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve future-state enterprise architecture across business, technology, and integration domains.
• Translate strategic business goals into enterprise-level architectural plans and domain-specific blueprints.
• Facilitate the creation of target operating models and business capability maps tailored to L&A.
• Develop and maintain business capability models to support product innovation, underwriting, policy administration, and surrounding processes.
• Collaborate with IT and business leaders to define and map technical capabilities that enable business strategy.
• Identify capability gaps and propose initiatives to build or mature key capabilities.
• Partner with portfolio and program management teams to align architecture deliverables with enterprise roadmaps.
• Support the development of multi-year transformation roadmaps, with clear prioritization of initiatives based on business value, architectural alignment, and technical feasibility.
• Facilitate architectural governance and investment planning across change portfolios.
• Define high-level integration patterns and future-state integration architecture between core L&A systems, digital platforms, and third-party services.
• Ensure architectural solutions enable interoperability, scalability, and compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards.

Key Skills:

• 12+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or strategy roles.
• 6+ years of experience in the Life and Annuity insurance domain is required.
• Demonstrated experience defining future-state architecture and capability roadmaps in insurance.
• Strong knowledge of core L&A processes: product development, new business, underwriting, policy admin, billing, claims, servicing.
• Familiarity with technology platforms used in L&A: PAS (e.g., EIS, ALIP, OIPA), CRM, BPM, data platforms, APIs.
• Experience with integration strategies and patterns (e.g., API-first, event-driven architecture).
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Oklahoma City

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other