IT Strategic Architect - Business Process Transformation & AI-Enabled Optimization

Role: IT Strategic Architect (Business Process Transformation & AI-Enabled Optimization)
Client Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hybrid Work - 3 Days onsite

• Healthcare domain experience is a must

Role Summary

• The IT Strategic Architect focuses on business strategy alignment, operating model transformation, and roadmap development, leveraging AI-enabled automation to drive measurable business outcomes.
• This role partners closely with executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into scalable transformation roadmaps, ensuring business processes are optimized for efficiency, growth, and agility.
• This is a business-outcome–driven role, shaping how AI/ML capabilities redefine processes, enhance decision-making, and unlock enterprise value.
• The architect bridges strategy and execution, ensuring investments are aligned to long-term business objectives and value realization.

Required Skills

• 8–12+ years in business strategy, transformation, or technology-led business initiatives
• Should have business analyst experience , healthcare domain experience
• Strong experience in operating model design, process transformation, and roadmap execution
• Proven ability to translate executive discussions into actionable strategic plans and roadmaps
• Experience identifying AI/ML use cases that drive tangible business value
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Strategy & Operating Model Alignment

• Partner with business and functional leaders to understand strategic priorities, growth objectives, and operating models
• Translate strategy into capability-driven transformation initiatives
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and optimize processes using AI-enabled automation

2. Process Transformation & Value Identification

• Assess current business processes and operations to identify:
• Inefficiencies and bottlenecks
• Manual dependencies and scalability challenges
• Opportunities for AI-driven automation and decision support
• Define clear value cases and business outcomes for transformation initiatives

3. Target State Operating Model Design

• Define future-state operating models and process frameworks that are:
• Scalable, efficient, and customer-centric
• Focused on measurable business outcomes
• Establish how AI/ML capabilities will enhance productivity, decision-making, and experience

4. Transformation Roadmap Development

• Develop multi-year transformation roadmaps that:
• Align business priorities with execution
• Balance value, cost, risk, and speed
• Sequence initiatives to deliver incremental, measurable impact
• Establish KPIs and value tracking mechanisms

5. Portfolio & Investment Prioritization

• Guide prioritization based on strategic alignment, ROI, and business impact
• Drive simplification and rationalization of processes and initiatives to reduce redundancy
• Promote consistency and reuse to improve efficiency and scalability

6. Strategic Governance & Executive Advisory

• Establish strategic guardrails for transformation initiatives
• Provide executive-level advisory on investments, trade-offs, and prioritization decisions
• Ensure sustained alignment between business strategy, execution, and value realization
• Outcomes & Value Delivered
• Strong alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap
• Scaled adoption of AI-driven automation across key business functions
• Improved efficiency, cost optimization, and speed to market
• Clearly defined and measurable business outcomes
• Sustainable foundation for continuous innovation and growth

Flexible work from home options available.