Business Architect

Business Architect 2029900

Meet the Team 

The Supply Chain Transformation Central Business Architect (CBA) serves as the primary strategic orchestrator bridging enterprise business vision, global physical manufacturing/fulfillment networks, and next-generation cognitive digital core systems. In the era of the AI-Forward Supply Chain, the Central Business Architect is responsible for defining the vision and roadmap by architecting, governing, and evolving end-to-end operational capability blueprints that transform traditional linear supply chain workflows into an intelligent, autonomous, self-healing, and multi-tier ecosystem.

Your Impact 

Target State Strategy & Architecture Blueprinting

• Enterprise Capability Modeling: Define, maintain, and publish the master Cisco Supply Chain Business Capability Model
• AI Roadmap Orchestration: Collaborate with functional architecture teams and AI Governance teams to define the 3–5-year cognitive supply chain roadmap.
• Value-Case Engineering: Construct quantified ROI models, total cost of ownership, benchmarks, and executive business cases to secure executive sponsorship for multi-million-dollar transformations.

Cross-Functional Orchestration & Ecosystem Alignment

• Strategic Stakeholder Bridging: Serve as the connective tissue aligning leaders across Global Supply Chain (Manufacturing, Logistics, Supplier Management, Quality, Product Component Operations & Global Planning), Enterprise IT, BU Product Management, Operations Finance, and Global Sales.
• Business Innovation Sprints (BIS): Design and facilitate intensive cross-functional BIS workshops to deconstruct complex operational challenges into rapid minimum viable capabilities.
• External Partner Co-Engineering: Interface with strategic partners to establish unified operating procedures, benchmarking and innovation roadmap

Architecture Governance & Discipline

• Architecture Review Board Leadership: Lead Supply Chain rapid assessments and other such activities to evaluate value case, investments needed, ensuring compliance with target-state modular capability designs and avoiding duplicative tool proliferation.
• Pilot-to-Scale Transition: Oversee the transition of new business models, AI/ML pilots into scalable enterprise-grade production.
• Guardrails & Compliance Enforcement: Embed governance and operating model for AI ethics guardrails directly into automated operational workflows.

Value Realization

• KPI & Value Realization Tracking: Establish and monitor quantitative value-realization scorecards, verifying that completed transformations deliver promised cost takeout, lead-time compression, and margin expansion.
• Digital Journey Dashboard Evolution: Curate and optimize real-time operational orchestration, surfacing process bottlenecks and friction points to operations leadership.
• AI Adoption & Autonomous Exception Rate: Building a vision for elevating autonomous supply chain exception resolution by reducing human touchpoints in routine supply chain roles.

Practice Leadership & Talent Enablement

• Capability Repository Management: Curate Cisco's centralized business architecture repository, ensuring reusable capability maps, process flows, and architectural assets are accessible enterprise wide.
• Team Mentorship: Coach and mentor domain business architects, process engineers, and technical leads across the broader Operations organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business or any other related field with at least 10 years of applicable experience, with a focus on 2 or more supply chain domains
• Ability to summarize detailed requirements into a digestible, fluid message that can be tailored for multiple levels of the organization
• Domain expertise in global high-tech electronics with hands-on experience architecting complex enterprise cores
• 7+ Years working on Enterprise Architecture / Transformation
• Familiarity in delivery of AI & Cognitive Supply Chain operational solutions
• Good understanding of business procedures and operations is necessary.
• Program management expertise, working knowledge of Supply Chain systems, and a proven ability to drive the efforts with large multi-functional teams
• Ability to summarize detailed requirements into a digestible, fluid message that can be tailored for multiple levels of the organization
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Preferred Qualifications

•  Strong storytelling and process blueprinting skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Outstanding research and analytical abilities.
• Strong leadership skills.       

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

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