Business Architect

Role overview

Workplace

• This is an on-site assignment requiring candidates to be in the office five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Assess business capabilities, define target business outcomes, optimize business processes, and develop enterprise architecture deliverables for governance approvals.
• Support modernization of the Forest Resources Inventory Information Management System and its enterprise architecture.
• Lead development of business architecture artifacts and maintain alignment with enterprise standards and governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analyze government information, consult government contacts, and conduct focus-group workshops on business architecture elements.
• Develop and maintain enterprise capabilities in line with strategy and contribute to business strategy and plans.
• Develop or revise artifacts within the Enterprise Information Architecture Federated Framework and ensure vertical integration.
• Model enterprise or core business capabilities and map business functionality to internal and external resources.
• Develop transformation plans with senior business management and support business solutions for delivery and operational functions.
• Maintain architectural governance and implementation controls.
• Develop enterprise blueprints that align strategic objectives with tactical demands and promote shared organizational understanding.

Experience requirements

• At least 10 years of total IT experience, including 5 years doing business architecture on large, complex projects.
• Experience completing business and information architectures at enterprise or core-business levels for governments or large organizations.
• Experience contributing business architecture practices to the transformation of government or large-organization program delivery.
• Experience leading project teams through enterprise engagement and working across projects and portfolios.
• Excellent communication, concept visualization, facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, consensus-building, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience collaborating with executives and senior management.

Architecture expertise and evaluation criteria

• Knowledge of or experience with Government of Ontario Information Technology Standards (GO-ITS) for Architecture.
• Experience developing business architectures using Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture methodologies and GO-ITS.
• Experience developing program-area business architecture documentation according to OPS standards and industry best practices.
• Experience aligning Business Architecture Documents with Solution Requirements and Information Architecture Documents, ensuring vertical integration.
• Knowledge and experience in services, business function, and business process modeling; BPMN; value chain analysis; business outcomes; performance measures and KPIs; and strategic, legislative, and technology alignment.
• Ability to create business architectures that inform and support elicitation of business and system requirements.