Business Architect 5964

Description :

• Providing leadership, guidance and support to the project team and subject matter experts; creates and maintains all models / artefacts / diagrams as it relates to establishing a shared use solution
• Update, develop and validate of all required business architecture and application architecture models / artefacts, documents and materials (according to industry best practices, GO-ITS standards and OPS EA guidelines using the appropriate version)
• Collaborates with cluster staff, project teams, clients and other OPS partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment
• Develops business processes using BPMN leveraging cluster / ministry tools and model repository (e.g. PowerDesigner)
• Identify issues and risks to be managed or addressed, and assist the project team or Client to facilitate mitigation
• Arrange and facilitate validation sessions
• Develop / revise business and / or application architecture artefacts according to cluster and corporate guidance
• Leads privacy impact assessment (PIA) and threat risk assessment (TRA) activities in collaboration with cluster staff, technical team members and other partners as required;

including responding to and / or actioning any risk recommendations or mitigations that may follow

• Researches industry best practices and conducts environmental or jurisdictional scans
• Participate in review and information sharing meetings
• Support Agile Enterprise Architecture delivery during the project
• Develop reference architecture artefacts / models / patterns for to enable shared use for future clients
• Arrange and facilitate Enterprise Architecture (EA) meetings with cluster staff, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders as required
• Support the process of acquiring cluster and corporate approvals such as Project Gating, LRC cluster governance processes, corporate architecture governance points (AGP), digital first assessments
• Provide status updates to both the project team and EA unit
• Provide transfer of knowledge and project deliverables to identified cluster staff
• Adhere to all OPS GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 56.0, GO-ITS 56.1, GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required
• Revise architectures per action and / or conditions arising from LRC’s governance body (Project Gating Review Committee) and Corporate EA Governance review bodies as required
• Utilize, reuse, and incorporate OPS Reference Architectures into the project architectures
• Ensure alignment with any other related and relevant business materials

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and / or follow up questions

Evaluation Criteria :

Business Architecture - 30%

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
• Demonstrated experience leading and facilitating workshops to gather business and application information, including validation and review sessions
• Demonstrated experience capturing business requirements, conducting business process re-engineering, business design and optimization;

identification of and alignment to business goals, as well as business performance measures

• Demonstrated ability to leverage latest industry best practices and trends
• Hands on experience developing business processes using BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)
• Identifying issues and risks to be managed or addressed to facilitate mitigation

Application / Solution Architecture 30%

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts
• Hands on demonstrated experience leading all aspects of solution design, including security and privacy
• Experience architecting enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel

Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Methodologies 20%

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in leading and delivering Business Architecture and Application Architecture projects
• Hands on demonstrated experience successfully leading project teams through all levels of governance processes (cluster and corporate) such a project gating, architecture governance points
• Hands on demonstrated experience preparing and delivering presentations to cluster and corporate architecture review boards to successful obtain approvals
• Experience leading project teams through the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process, Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) process and other technical or security assessment processes as required
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise architecture, including the ability to integrate / align with across all domains (business, information, application, technical, security)
• Hands on experience creating architecture artefacts, models and / or reports using PowerDesigner

Soft Skills - 20%

• Experience with agile
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks / issues with mitigations
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated consensus building skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements :

• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for business architecture such as, but not limited to : business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, value chain analysis, and other related disciplines
• 10+ years experience successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations
• Good understanding of diverse business environments, especially government and compliance / regulatory functions
• Proven ability to identify and analyze business requirements
• Knowledge and experience of information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures / needs
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated commitment and proven ability with effective stakeholder management
• Experience as a business architect, who has successfully modeled the business at the enterprise and / or core business levels for medium to large organizations
• Experience as a solution / application architect who has successfully modeled solution requirements, design and components for enterprise scale COTS solutions, Oracle Siebel preferred
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables / artefacts (e.g. models)
• Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Must haves :

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
• Demonstrated experience leading and facilitating workshops to gather business and application information, including validation and review sessions
• Demonstrated experience capturing business requirements, conducting business process re-engineering, business design and optimization;

identification of and alignment to business goals, as well as business performance measures

• Experience architecting enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel
• Experience with agile
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
30+ days ago