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Hilltop Holdings is currently looking to hire a Business Architect. The Business Architect is responsible for delivering business value through successful elicitation, prioritization, documentation, and validation of requirements for system implementations and business process improvement efforts that support complex initiatives that create significant change in lines of business or enterprise-wide. This role partners with the executive community to proactively identify business processes that can benefit from project engagement and collaborates with PMO leaders to define for inclusion into the Strategic Planning process for evaluation, prioritization and placement on the roadmap. This role utilizes technical knowledge and a wide knowledge of business concepts, combined with the research skills to pull new insights quickly, to partner with business leads and technical architects to ensure business and information technology improvement strategies align with company strategic initiatives. The Business Architect is a skilled communicator who demonstrates courage to challenge suggested projects and initiatives that may not be optimal, in a positive, professional manner, and bring more effective alternative proposals to the table. The Business Architect serves as a consultative resource to the Communities of Practice for the company, contributing to high professional standards through providing expert practice guidance to the role-based and skill-based participants and business team members. This consultation may be in the form of group or individual coaching, key topic presentations, and identification of relevant industry trends. Critical to the success of this role is the individual’s ability to present information clearly and concisely to all levels of the organization, including executive decision makers, manage stakeholder expectations, synthesize multiple business lines needs into common packages of business information, requirements, system and data flow, and identify opportunities for integrations or system hardening and improvements. Additional business guidance and support includes development of standards that are leveraged by business, technology and PMO leaders to increase the effectiveness of project and program alignment to corporate strategic initiatives, and improve quality of program and project delivery. This role will work with multiple project teams, utilizing multiple project frameworks and with varying level of complexity at a time. Essential Functions:
Job Requirements:
Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HTH) is a Texas-based diversified financial holding company specializing in banking, mortgage origination, and financial advisory through its wholly owned subsidiaries, PlainsCapital Bank, PrimeLending, and HilltopSecurities. Hilltop Holdings is dedicated to Integrity, Collaboration, Adaptability, Respect, and Excellence. Our principles are the momentum that drives our actions, guides our decisions, and enables us to earn the confidence of the customers and communities we serve. If you want to be a part of a team on the rise, Hilltop Holdings may be your next move forward.
Hilltop Holdings is currently looking to hire a Business Architect. The Business Architect is responsible for delivering business value through successful elicitation, prioritization, documentation, and validation of requirements for system implementations and business process improvement efforts that support complex initiatives that create significant change in lines of business or enterprise-wide. This role partners with the executive community to proactively identify business processes that can benefit from project engagement and collaborates with PMO leaders to define for inclusion into the Strategic Planning process for evaluation, prioritization and placement on the roadmap. This role utilizes technical knowledge and a wide knowledge of business concepts, combined with the research skills to pull new insights quickly, to partner with business leads and technical architects to ensure business and information technology improvement strategies align with company strategic initiatives. The Business Architect is a skilled communicator who demonstrates courage to challenge suggested projects and initiatives that may not be optimal, in a positive, professional manner, and bring more effective alternative proposals to the table. The Business Architect serves as a consultative resource to the Communities of Practice for the company, contributing to high professional standards through providing expert practice guidance to the role-based and skill-based participants and business team members. This consultation may be in the form of group or individual coaching, key topic presentations, and identification of relevant industry trends. Critical to the success of this role is the individual’s ability to present information clearly and concisely to all levels of the organization, including executive decision makers, manage stakeholder expectations, synthesize multiple business lines needs into common packages of business information, requirements, system and data flow, and identify opportunities for integrations or system hardening and improvements. Additional business guidance and support includes development of standards that are leveraged by business, technology and PMO leaders to increase the effectiveness of project and program alignment to corporate strategic initiatives, and improve quality of program and project delivery. This role will work with multiple project teams, utilizing multiple project frameworks and with varying level of complexity at a time.
- Brings forward solutions for new strategic offerings by partnering with the EPMO Director to frame and drive cross company efforts that require significant Executive change management where the EPMO will take advantage of synergies to streamline services and/or make available new products and services, internal and external.
- Provides subject matter expertise in how business capabilities interact with technical capabilities to address client business problems and achieve client goals.
- Foster productive working relationships with all business and technical leaders at all levels, and effectively manage their expectations. Utilize breadth of knowledge of both business and technical skills to establish a role of leader, consultant, coach and mentor to support teams and team members through a continuous improvement journey.
- Engages in proactive periodic architecture review with business and technical architects to identify improvement opportunities. Works with the business and technology teams to eliminate gaps and inconsistencies in the business solution architectural design and to prevent creation of new issues, gaps or technical debt. Builds and updates enterprise topologies of key systems to track identified opportunities and manage the updates with business and technology partners.
- Participate in sessions as a coach and observer to support team member growth through feedback. Identify coaching opportunities with individuals, provide feedback and partner with managers to create and implement development plans enhance job performance.
- Develop and implement standards for the various PMO job roles to manage key functions of program and project delivery across multiple, large, complex IT and business process project initiatives utilizing the Hilltop Holdings project management framework and software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Provide peer reviews of business requirements, as needed. Provide constructive feedback and coaching to elevate team member skillsets.
- Develop and implement standards for the PMO community to address key skills and competencies, including:
- Effective elicitation, documentation, prioritization and validation of solution requirements
- Identify and provide recommendations for process improvements
- Provide data analysis for integration requirements, reporting needs, and other functions
- Facilitate requirement reviews and obtain approvals with project stakeholders
- work with developers to ensure understanding of the requirements and assist with issue resolution.
- Elevate team members’ ability to facilitate user acceptance testing from creation of test scripts, stakeholder participation and completion through traceability and integration with quality assurance for tracking and validation of remediation
- Negotiate through challenges in project delivery using influence to attain desired outcomes
- Work with the PMO Leadership community to continuously augment the PMO Library of templates, including materials drawn from industry leaders. Utilize larger business view to guide and curate team contribution to fill gaps or augment topics that can benefit from elaboration.
- Lead the development, maintenance and training of the business analysis methodologies, techniques, and standards utilized by the organization. This should come from both pull and push perspectives – gathering input from the team drawn from team challenges, questions or requests for augmentation (pull) as well as sharing industry standards (push).
- Other functions as needed.
Job Requirements:
- Must be currently living in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area. This is hybrid position that reports into the Dallas Office 3 days out of the week / 2 WFH.
- Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or equivalent experience or education; Master’s degree a differentiator
- Ability to prioritize and manage workload for multiple, simultaneous programs and initiatives.
- Experience delivering business requirements within multiple delivery frameworks to include waterfall, agile, hybrid
- Experience with SDLC and workflow management tools (Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc.)
- Experience using visualization tools to represent complex concepts in a clear and understandable way
- Experience identifying large-scale business process improvements plus business savvy to socialize opportunities to correct decision-makers to gain support
- Comfort managing the training and change management associated with large-scale implementation
- Comfort framing a challenging message with diplomacy to ensure stakeholders hear the information in a manner that can be consumed and actioned
- Ability to analyze and interpret business problems to determine the best solution or course of action
- Strong leadership, organization, and relationship management skills. Demonstrated coaching and mentoring skills
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with proven ability to interact with all levels of the organization as well as external business partners
- Experience identifying and monitoring risks, both technical and operational in nature
- Relevant additional certifications desirable
- Experience in the Financial Services industry a plus
- Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and Visio
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Hilltop Holdings offers a diverse range of financial services through its three primary subsidiaries, PlainsCapital Bank, PrimeLending, and HilltopSecurities. PlainsCapital Bank is a leading commercial bank with locations throughout Texas. PrimeLending is a national mortgage provider focused on purchase mortgage originations. HilltopSecurities provides financial advisory, clearing, retail brokerage, and other investment banking services. Hilltop Holdings seeks to build the premier Texas-based diversified financial services holding company through acquisitions and organic growth. To learn more, please visit www.hilltop-holdings.com.
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