# Business Architect

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

**Target State Strategy & Architecture Blueprinting**

- Define, maintain, and publish the master Cisco Supply Chain Business Capability Model

- Collaborate with functional architecture teams and AI Governance teams to define the 3–5-year cognitive supply chain roadmap

- 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**

- Serve as the connective tissue aligning leaders across Global Supply Chain, Enterprise IT, BU Product Management, Operations Finance, and Global Sales

- Design and facilitate intensive cross-functional BIS workshops to deconstruct complex operational challenges into rapid minimum viable capabilities

- Interface with strategic partners to establish unified operating procedures, benchmarking and innovation roadmap

**Architecture Governance & Discipline**

- 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

- Oversee the transition of new business models, AI/ML pilots into scalable enterprise-grade production

- Embed governance and operating model for AI ethics guardrails directly into automated operational workflows

**Value Realization**

- Establish and monitor quantitative value-realization scorecards, verifying that completed transformations deliver promised cost takeout, lead-time compression, and margin expansion

- Curate and optimize real-time operational orchestration, surfacing process bottlenecks and friction points to operations leadership

- Building a vision for elevating autonomous supply chain exception resolution by reducing human touchpoints in routine supply chain roles

**Practice Leadership & Talent Enablement**

- Curate Cisco's centralized business architecture repository, ensuring reusable capability maps, process flows, and architectural assets are accessible enterprise wide

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain
- Enterprise Architecture
- AI
- Cognitive Supply Chain
- Business Architecture

### Nice to have
- storytelling
- process blueprinting
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- organizational skills
- analytical abilities
- leadership skills

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