Job Description
Job Title: Senior Business Architect (Technical)
Work Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Position Overview:
The Senior Business Architect(Technical) will play a critical role in documenting current-state business processes and defining future ready functional requirements for the EIT Angel Investment Tax Credit and Film Production Tax Credit systems. This role will lead structured discovery, stakeholder engagement, and requirements definition activities to support platform evaluation, modernization planning, and informed solution selection across multiple technology options.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience in complex business process analysis, regulatory or financial systems, stakeholder facilitation, and requirements governance, with the ability to translate policy and operational needs into clear, traceable, and actionable documentation.
Primary Responsibilities
- Business Process Analysis & Documentation
- Lead the documentation of current-state (“as-is”) business processes for EIT Angel Investment and Film Tax Credit programs, including application intake, review, approval, compliance, reporting, and audit workflows.
- Identify process inefficiencies, manual touchpoints, system limitations, and integration gaps impacting program execution and stakeholder experience.
- Develop comprehensive gap analyses to highlight improvement opportunities and inform modernization priorities.
- Requirements Elicitation & Validation
- Conduct structured stakeholder interviews, workshops, and working sessions with business owners, program administrators, finance teams, compliance staff, and technical stakeholders.
- Gather and document comprehensive functional requirements that are solution-agnostic and applicable across multiple platform options.
- Validate requirements through iterative review sessions to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with regulatory, policy, and operational needs.
- Business Rules & Workflow Definition
- Define and document business rules, eligibility criteria, approval thresholds, exception handling, and compliance requirements governing tax credit programs.
- Model end-to-end business workflows that clearly represent decision points, roles, handoffs, and dependencies.
- Develop decision matrices to support objective platform evaluation and vendor comparison.
- User Stories & Traceability
- Translate functional requirements into a structured user story library, complete with detailed acceptance criteria and business context.
- Ensure requirements are testable, traceable, and aligned to documented business objectives.
- Maintain a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) linking business goals, functional requirements, user stories, and evaluation criteria.
- Key Deliverables
- Current-State Process Documentation
- * Detailed process maps and narratives for EIT Angel Investment and Film Tax Credit systems
- * Identified gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities
- Comprehensive Functional Requirements Document
- * Clear, solution-independent functional requirements
- * Business rules, constraints, and non-functional considerations
- Business Process Workflows & Decision Artifacts
- * End-to-end workflow diagrams
- * Decision matrices supporting platform selection and evaluation
- User Story Library
- * Well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria
- * Alignment to business objectives and regulatory requirements
- Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- * Traceability across processes, requirements, user stories, and evaluation criteria
- * Support for governance, validation, and procurement decision-making
- Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex, enterprise-scale systems
- Strong expertise in business process modeling, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder facilitation
- Experience working with financial, tax, regulatory, or compliance-driven systems
- Demonstrated ability to create clear, structured, and audit-ready documentation
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge business, policy, and technical audiences
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting government or public-sector modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with tax credit programs, grants, or incentive-based systems
- Experience supporting platform evaluation, COTS selection, or procurement activities
- Proficiency with tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Jira, Confluence, or similar
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