Strategic Business Architect Senior Manager

Allstate Allstate · Insurance · United States · Remote

This role is a Senior Manager of Strategic Business Architecture within HR, focusing on translating business needs into HR processes and experiences. The role involves leading process architecture, redesigning employee lifecycle processes, and collaborating with HR technology teams to implement AI-enabled solutions for operational efficiencies. While AI is mentioned as a tool for improvement, the core function of the role is HR process design and management, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the people leader for a team of senior business architect focused on core employee lifecycle processes, driving global consistency, scalability, and full regulatory compliance across our global footprint.
  2. Partner closely with HR Centers of Excellence and business partners to lead end-to-end employee experience discovery and redesign—including strategy blueprinting, capability mapping, root cause analysis, and removal of blockers, inefficiencies, and waste.
  3. Develop clear “as-is” and “to-be” process models, create future-state roadmaps, and oversee successful implementation and adoption.
  4. Drive global process standardization while considerately balancing local regulatory and business requirements.
  5. Collaborate with HR Technology and Service Delivery teams improving operational efficiencies through streamlining, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.

Skills

Required

  • Deep expertise in HR process design, mapping, and re-engineering
  • Strong, hands-on Workday HCM expertise
  • Recognized program and project management skills
  • Proven people leadership experiences
  • Demonstrated ability to build stakeholder alignment, drive adoption, and influence effectively without direct authority
  • A strategic, analytical, and consultative mindset paired with a strong bias for execution and results

Nice to have

  • journey mapping and employee experience design across the HR lifecycle
  • Strong partnership skills with HRIS and technology teams to implement enhancements
  • Knowledge of change management principles, communication strategies, and stakeholder engagement
  • Skilled in using data to diagnose problems and measure HR service effectiveness
  • Understanding of operational analytics tools (Power BI, Workday reporting, etc.)
  • Demonstrated success leading teams of business architects or transformation professionals

What the JD emphasized

  • full regulatory compliance