BUSINESS ARCHITECT

Ready to join a US Best Managed Company? KENT® Corporation has a fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Business Architect! This critical role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing the development and deployment of individual IT capabilities to be implemented per KENT Corporation’s strategic IT plan. The Business Architect will also be directly responsible for the creation, maintenance, and communication of clearly defined business requirements and the effective transfer of these requirements to the IT development function.

• This position is designed and intended to be performed in Muscatine, IA.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Champion new capabilities to be developed as well as any enhancements to existing capabilities in alignment with meeting Kent Corporation’s strategic objectives.
• Serve as a liaison to the IT development and support areas of Kent Corporation IT ensuring business needs are correctly translated and communicated during all phases of an IT solution’s life cycle.
• Function as a subject matter expert in Kent Corporation’s core business processes
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve business performance through information technology and/or process reengineering
• Assimilate complex business models, processes, and scenarios into clear concise, IT business requirements for the development and support processes
• Help assess the business impact/risk of individual initiatives on the enterprise
• Perform the liaison role on individual project teams between the business function and Global Information Technology Services
• Participate in team reviews of all IT initiatives to ensure accuracy, completeness, and validity of project documentation
• Act as the first line of contact and communications for all IT related requests within their designated business core processes
• Manage the change request process for all incoming work requests within their designated business area
• Perform research on new and existing technologies to determine how their use will impact the business going forward
• Lead and coordinate the work for business focused sub-teams as part of large and complex IT initiatives as a functional lead

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have either Bachelor’s degree or significant progress toward a degree
• Master’s degree in, or significant progress towards this degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business or related field is preferred
• Equivalent combination of education and Business Architecture IT skills and experience considered
• Minimum 3 year’s experience in an IT Business Architecture or related role with the proven ability to work the associated best practices processes, and a proven record of success on initiatives across enterprise level business processes
• Must possess a broad range of business process experience with the ability to be immediately be productive on any given initiative across the enterprise with little technical direction
• Required knowledge of IT enterprise level business applications including data warehousing and analytical reporting, methods of ordering/payment/billing, manufacturing and inventory systems, financial systems, sales support systems, etc
• Required knowledge of IT Business Architecture and Project Management frameworks as well as Application Development methodologies, and IT Operations and Service Management processes
• Knowledge of general IT design and development methodologies, processes, and technology such as system life cycle, system testing, relational databases, programming constructs, etc
• Thorough understanding of Kent Corporation’s Strategic Vision, our business processes, and those of our customer’s is desired
• Previous experience with business rule collection methodologies and process mapping
• Ability to communicate complex business and technical issues vertically/horizontally to all levels of the company

TRAVEL:

• 5-10%