RQ07959 - Business Architect - Senior

About the job RQ07959 - Business Architect - Senior

Note: This is a hybrid assignment and requires working a minimum of 2 days per week (subject to change) onsite and 3 days from remotely.

The Land and Resources Cluster (LRC) has developed a robust, modernized digital compliance solution for the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks (MECP) called the Environmental Compliance Hub of Ontario (ECHO). The 2020 Ontario Onwards Action Plan has identified a Smart Regulation Transformation Strategy which has recommended the adoption of ECHO as the OPS-wide shared use platform for compliance related functions when regulatory Ministries are planning to replace existing compliance applications, have a new requirement or will benefit from integration to enable cross‑ministry oversight and analytics. In 2022, this shared use platform called Digital Compliance Platform (DCP) has been expanded to two partner ministries and continual expansion is the scope for this assignment.

DCP has been designed/configured using Oracle Siebel technology, and is based on leaned and streamlined compliance processes representing 4 common compliance business functions:

• Regulatory Profile Management
• Compliance Monitoring and Assurance (inspections and their outcome)
• Investigation and Enforcement

The purpose of this project is to:

• Continue to build and scale out DCP as a shared use service / product for regulatory Ontario Ministry compliance related programs. This will include updates to DCP's business and technical architecture and maturing of its DevOps processes like automated testing.
• Onboarding of new Ministry programs onto DCP as part of the second onboarding phase, including a digital channel to issue and manage licenses.

Note: This is a hybrid assignment and requires working a minimum of 2 days per week (subject to change) onsite and 3 days from remotely.

Responsibilities

• 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 LRCs 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

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)

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
• 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
• Demonstrated consensus building skills
• 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

• 10+ years as Business Architect
• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
• 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
• Hands on demonstrated experience successfully leading project teams through all levels of governance processes (cluster and corporate) such a project gating, architecture governance points
• 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)

Closing Date/Time2024-10-24, 12:30 p.m

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