Role: IT Strategic Architect (Business Process Transformation & AI-Enabled Optimization)
Client Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hybrid Work - 3 Days onsite
- Healthcare domain experience is a must
Role Summary
- The IT Strategic Architect focuses on business strategy alignment, operating model transformation, and roadmap development, leveraging AI-enabled automation to drive measurable business outcomes.
- This role partners closely with executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into scalable transformation roadmaps, ensuring business processes are optimized for efficiency, growth, and agility.
- This is a business-outcome–driven role, shaping how AI/ML capabilities redefine processes, enhance decision-making, and unlock enterprise value.
- The architect bridges strategy and execution, ensuring investments are aligned to long-term business objectives and value realization.
Required Skills
- 8–12+ years in business strategy, transformation, or technology-led business initiatives
- Should have business analyst experience , healthcare domain experience
- Strong experience in operating model design, process transformation, and roadmap execution
- Proven ability to translate executive discussions into actionable strategic plans and roadmaps
- Experience identifying AI/ML use cases that drive tangible business value
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Strategy & Operating Model Alignment
- Partner with business and functional leaders to understand strategic priorities, growth objectives, and operating models
- Translate strategy into capability-driven transformation initiatives
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using AI-enabled automation
2. Process Transformation & Value Identification
- Assess current business processes and operations to identify:
- Inefficiencies and bottlenecks
- Manual dependencies and scalability challenges
- Opportunities for AI-driven automation and decision support
- Define clear value cases and business outcomes for transformation initiatives
3. Target State Operating Model Design
- Define future-state operating models and process frameworks that are:
- Scalable, efficient, and customer-centric
- Focused on measurable business outcomes
- Establish how AI/ML capabilities will enhance productivity, decision-making, and experience
4. Transformation Roadmap Development
- Develop multi-year transformation roadmaps that:
- Align business priorities with execution
- Balance value, cost, risk, and speed
- Sequence initiatives to deliver incremental, measurable impact
- Establish KPIs and value tracking mechanisms
5. Portfolio & Investment Prioritization
- Guide prioritization based on strategic alignment, ROI, and business impact
- Drive simplification and rationalization of processes and initiatives to reduce redundancy
- Promote consistency and reuse to improve efficiency and scalability
6. Strategic Governance & Executive Advisory
- Establish strategic guardrails for transformation initiatives
- Provide executive-level advisory on investments, trade-offs, and prioritization decisions
- Ensure sustained alignment between business strategy, execution, and value realization
- Outcomes & Value Delivered
- Strong alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap
- Scaled adoption of AI-driven automation across key business functions
- Improved efficiency, cost optimization, and speed to market
- Clearly defined and measurable business outcomes
- Sustainable foundation for continuous innovation and growth
Flexible work from home options available.
