Business Architect Lead Consultant at Allstate in Illinois

Business Architect Lead Consultant Location: USA - IL (Remote) At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Job Description The Business Architect Lead Consultant role will support the development and drive solutions forward that allow our organization to reach its goals by partnering with technology, business stakeholders and user experience. This role sits within the Sales and Distribution business team, and supports our Agency Service Takeout Strategy, which reimagines the exclusive agent service ecosystem so agents and staff can focus on delivering impactful customer needs while routine service is handled through streamlined processed and new technologies. The selected individual will support and lead the owning of the strategic direction and execution initiatives. This role requires somebody who is not afraid to work in the gray, work in a fast-paced environment and work across business units. Your ability to story tell in a strategic voice to officer level and present information will be part of the overall work. You will not be bored in this role. And you will have the opportunity to mentor junior business architects. Additionally, you would evaluate and uncover current opportunities, influence and support the strategic development of a solution, and drive the development and implementation of the solution alongside our tech, supporting business and user experience partners. Key Responsibilities • Analyzing, understanding and recovery of the organization's current business processes, goals, and objectives. • Identifying opportunities for improvement, optimization, and reuse within the business architecture while adhering to design principles and user experience. • Translating business requirements into technical specifications and guiding the implementation of initiative, operating at the capability-level, in support of broader platforms, and developing functional systems flow to ensure the efficacy of new capabilities. • Ensure execution of initiatives, proactively engaging with field stakeholder groups to collect insights and feedback. • Developing and maintaining business architecture models, frameworks, and roadmaps, production, quality, and customer service goals. • Guide the implementation of the initiative, Collaborating with stakeholders to align business strategies with technology solutions, working with other product owners to ensure integration between capabilities within a platform. • Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to provide recommendations on decisions about product strategy and iterations • Engage in discovery/test and learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and capability or solution direction to achieve business results. • Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of business architecture solutions and making recommendations for enhancements as needed, performing process development, improvement, rollout, and integration activities, and optimizing process oversight with process agility. Education • 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred) Experience • 5 or more years of related experience • Leading strategic initiatives (preferred) • Experience with Data Analytics • Familiarity with outcome based delivery model (preferred) Supervisory Responsibilities • This job does not have supervisory duties. #Li-DM1 Skills Data Analysis, Insurance Industry, Strategic Direction, Strategic Initiative, Strategy Development, Taking Initiative Compensation Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation. Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. 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