Business Architect (Brazil / Chile)

Position Serve as the primary strategic partner to leadership, ensuring concrete transformations across the digital ecosystem. This role guarantees sustainability, consistency, and executive alignment, fostering smooth communication and the negotiation of technical and strategic decisions — from managing the team to direct engagement with the Head of Architecture and other organizational stakeholders. Key Objectives Ensure the evolution of the architecture strategy in alignment with business objectives, balancing global optimization with local optimization. Drive the evolution of the architecture discipline, strengthening and creating shared practices across architecture teams. Transparency and Governance of Decisions: Ensure architecture decisions are visible, easy to understand, reversible when appropriate, and made in the right forums (strategy, technology, investment, and design). Strategic Translation: Facilitate leadership, architecture teams, and technical teams' understanding of the domain strategy, accelerating execution aligned with that strategy. Operational Consistency: Manage architecture teams so they operate consistently, in sync, with agility, sustainably, and in proper alignment with leadership. Main Responsibilities Scale best practices across the company: Identify solutions and approaches that can be replicated or adapted within your scope of work and across the entire company. Ensure the continuous evolution of the Architecture Ecosystem: Keep the domain's Business Capability Model aligned with processes/systems, updating landscapes and inventories to support technical decision-making. Co-build Roadmaps: Collaborate on, coordinate, and socialize roadmaps that clearly outline initiatives, contributions to capabilities, dependencies, and target states. Architectural Leadership: Lead enterprise architecture decisions, contracts, and dependency management across different journeys and domains. Propose and negotiate architecture priorities. Initiative Follow-up: Track projects from options evaluation through implementation, ensuring adherence to standards and the existing ecosystem. Work Model Location: Brazil or Chile The position can be based in Brazil (office in the Congonhas region, São Paulo) or Chile (Santiago), in a hybrid model with 1 to 2 in-office days per week. Requirements Mandatory Requirements Experience leading enterprise architecture or corporate architecture Proven track record in technology decision-making: buy vs. build, vendor selection, business case development, investment evaluation Experience in architecture governance: documenting trade-offs, standardization, committees, and decision-making forums Experience coordinating roadmaps across multiple teams, identifying overlaps and negotiating synergies People management experience, with willingness to work in a 50% technical / 50% management capacity Fluent English Nice to Have Prior experience in an airline, airport, or travel tech company Knowledge of the passenger journey, sales force, and customer service A career path that includes engineering and/or solution architecture before moving into enterprise architecture Experience in a multi-country environment, with headquarters-versus-local-operation tension Experience defining where and how to apply AI agents based on application criticality Enterprise architecture frameworks and tools (TOGAF, ArchiMate, LeanIX, Ardoq) Spanish