Business Architect - Portsmouth, NH

About High Liner Foods

High Liner Foods was founded in 1899 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada as a small salt fish company. Lunenburg is still the current home of our Canadian Operations. As a category leader in Seafood, High Liner Foods has a strong footprint across Canada and the U.S. with close to $1 billion in sales.

High Liner Foods is the seafood brand people trust. Every day we’re Reimagining Seafood to Nourish Life through a focus on our customers, innovation, and of course, responsible operations. Our talented team is committed to the High Liner Foods goal of becoming the leader in branded, value-added seafood in North America.

We offer professional, technical and operational career opportunities across Canada and the United States. We believe in building a high-performance organization by investing in our people. We are focused on developing future leaders from within and fostering career growth and advancement.

It’s our time to make waves. Join us.

High Liner Foods is a career destination. We look for high-performing talent who value:

• Safety - it’s our #1 priority
• Opportunities to contribute to your community through volunteerism
• A culture of inclusion, support and recognition
• Senior leaders that are highly accessible and available to employees
• A strong focus on education and career development through training
• Competitive salary and performance rewards
• A comprehensive benefit plan designed to keep up with the changing healthcare needs across North America

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Director, IT Strategy and Architecture, the Business Architect (BA) is a strategic, active thought partner and application visionary who shapes business demand for technology based on a deep understanding of business objectives. The BA collaborates with business partners to create compelling business cases that lead to approved projects. The BA partners with the business community to conduct business process reviews that lead to process and system improvements. The BA acts as a liaison between the business community and the technical community, working with IT project teams and business partners to collect, clarify, and document business requirements (using standard tools and methodologies) from which process improvements, applications and solutions are developed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with all levels of the organization to identify, analyze, and develop plans around critical strategic priorities
• Act as a member of the functional business unit and develop partnerships with all stakeholders
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify business capability needs and prioritization
• Work with business leaders to create business cases for presentation to senior management for approval
• Challenge business leaders to identify the problem needing to be solved
• Evaluate and prioritize incoming demand against strategic initiatives and business objectives
• Lead and facilitate requirements gathering sessions in both “one on one” and group settings
• Apply thought leadership to emerging business projects
• Leverage external industry insights to drive innovation
• Review, analyze and evaluate ideas and opportunities to develop new products, technologies and business models
• Participate in the planning of projects to move ideas from business case to production
• Lead and/or facilitate business process mapping sessions
• Identify and recommend areas where processes can be streamlined, improved or eliminated
• Lead and/or facilitate capability mapping sessions in order to identify what capabilities exist at HLF and how they can be better utilized

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field
• 5 – 7 years direct work experience
• CCBA or CBAP certification is an asset
• Experience with CPG companies is an asset
• Experience with both foodservice and retail business units is an asset
• Experience with marketing technology is desired
• Experience with JDE E1 or another large ERP
• Experience with trade promotional management implementation is desired
• Experience with a major system implementation (ERP) is an asset
• Demonstrated experience in process analysis, business case development, requirements definition, test specifications
• Experience in data analysis and working with large volumes of data
• Keen ability to create strong partnerships at all levels of the business based on trust, empathy and capability
• Ability to work with outside consultants and vendors to achieve shared goals
• Able to understand business functionality and translate it into process and application requirements
• Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work product
• Ability to partner with software engineers and quality analysts to identify course of resolutions
• Strong understanding of basic system engineering, object-oriented design, information risk and security guidelines and architecture standards
• In depth understanding of various software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall)
• Understanding of modeling techniques, such as unified modeling language

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High Liner Foods is Remote Friendly! We offer a Flexible Hybrid Work Model where corporate office employees have the flexibility to choose a minimum of two office days per week, with the option to work wherever they prefer (office or remote) for the remainder of the week.

Health, Safety & Wellness

At High Liner Foods, we believe strongly in the safety and wellness of our employees. Our organization has a number of policies, programs and practices that focus on safety, wellness, health and sustainability of the overall organization. Company employees, including temporary/agency and contract workers, are required to provide proof of their full COVID-19 vaccination status if their role requires business travel by a means requiring vaccination (including, but not limited to, international air travel and/or domestic air and rail travel withing Canada) per regional laws/regulations. Employees will be considered fully vaccinated if they have received the required number of doses of a vaccine which has been approved by the health authority of the country in which they work.

Recruitment Process

Our process is meaningful but efficient! We want to get to know you and show you what our world is like.

Applicants who demonstrate potential will be contacted directly for a preliminary phone interview. Successful applications from this stage will participate in a behavioral-based interview with the hiring leader.

All hires are conditional upon the successful completion of references, background checks and applicable drug testing.

High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer committed to diversity & inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or marital status, genetic information or other protected status, covered by federal, state or local law.

Accommodations for Applicants with Disabilities. High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact humanresources@highlinerfoods.com for assistance.

Current employees please note: this position is referral bonus eligible! See our policy for more details.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)