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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.