Business Architect – Discrete Mfg

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Business Architect – Discrete Mfg to join our Client's team.

Client is seeking a Business Architect to be a senior, cross-functional resource responsible for bridging business strategy with enterprise systems and processes.

Role Overview  

The Business Architect will translate business requirements into scalable, well-governed solutions across the company's core application landscape, while also leading the Business Analysis team and the IT Quality Assurance (QA) team. The ideal candidate combines strong business process acumen with hands-on familiarity with ERP, CPQ, and CRM platforms, and is equally comfortable facilitating executive discussions and coaching analysts and testers on day-to-day delivery.

What Success Looks Like

- Business processes and system capabilities are clearly documented, aligned, and understood across stakeholder groups.

- The Business Analysis and QA teams operate with consistent standards, strong collaboration, and measurable quality improvements.

- Solution designs across ERP, CPQ, and CRM reduce rework, improve data quality, and support enterprise architecture goals.

- Projects are delivered with well-tested, well-understood requirements that minimize downstream defects and rework.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture & Process Design

- Partner with business stakeholders and IT leadership to document current-state and future-state business processes, capability maps, and value streams.

- Translate business strategy and operational needs into system and process requirements that span ERP, CPQ, CRM, and adjacent applications.

- Identify process gaps, redundancies, and automation opportunities, and recommend solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders (Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance) on how system capabilities can support business objectives.

- Maintain and evolve process and solution documentation, including workflow diagrams, requirements repositories, and architecture artifacts.

Team Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop the Business Analysis team, setting standards for requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.

- Lead the IT QA team, establishing test strategy, test case coverage, and release readiness criteria across projects and enhancements.

- Coordinate prioritization and resource allocation across business analysis and QA workstreams to support the enterprise project portfolio.

- Establish and monitor team KPIs (e.g., requirements quality, defect leakage, test cycle time) and drive continuous improvement.

- Foster collaboration between business analysts, QA engineers, developers, and solution architects throughout the project lifecycle.

Systems & Solution Expertise

-  Apply working knowledge of Infor Visual ERP to guide requirements, configuration decisions, and process improvements across manufacturing and finance workflows.

- Apply working knowledge of Tacton CPQ to support configure-to-order and quoting process design and enhancements.

- Apply working knowledge of Salesforce CRM to align sales, quoting, and customer data processes with downstream ERP and CPQ systems.

- Support integration and data-flow discussions across the application landscape (e.g., MuleSoft, Microsoft Fabric) in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture and Integrations teams.

Ensure proposed solutions align with master data governance standards and enterprise architecture principles.

General Traits

 - Exceptional verbal and written communication and project management skills.

 - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

 - Ability to work collaboratively and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Professional Experience  

- 7+ years of experience in business analysis, business architecture, or solution architecture roles, including experience in a discrete manufacturing environment.

- 3+ years of experience leading or managing a team, ideally spanning business analysis and/or QA disciplines.

- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (Infor Visual preferred), CPQ platforms (Tacton preferred), and CRM platforms (Salesforce preferred).

- Strong facilitation, requirements-gathering, and process-mapping skills (e.g., BPMN, value stream mapping).

- Solid understanding of software QA practices, including test planning, test case design, and defect management.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage both executive stakeholders and technical teams.

Preferred Experience

•    Experience in an engineer-to-order or configure-to-order manufacturing environment.

•    Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) or formal business architecture certification (e.g., CBAP, CBA).

•    Familiarity with integration platforms (MuleSoft) and analytics/data platforms (Microsoft Fabric).

•    Experience operating within a PMO or structured project governance model.

•    Experience in a private equity-owned or portfolio-company environment.

Education

 - Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Remote/Travel  

- Remote role

- 10% travel. Must be able to travel in US and to Canada (e.g., NY, Toronto, CA, etc.), as needed, to engage with stakeholders.

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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