Business Architect - Senior/Enterprise Architect

Business Architect

Overview

The Business Architect will provide senior-level business architecture expertise to support enterprise transformation initiatives within the Ontario Public Service (OPS). The consultant will be responsible for analyzing business operations, developing business architecture artifacts, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and ensuring alignment between business strategies, information architecture, solution architecture, and enterprise architecture standards.

This role requires extensive experience in government and large enterprise environments, with a strong understanding of business architecture methodologies, enterprise architecture frameworks, governance processes, and business transformation practices.

Responsibilities

Business Architecture Development

• Analyze government programs, services, business functions, and organizational capabilities.
  
• Consult with government stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business needs and strategic objectives.
  
• Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and stakeholder sessions to gather business architecture requirements.
  
• Develop and maintain Business Architecture Documents (BAD) in accordance with OPS standards and industry best practices.
  
• Design current-state and future-state business architecture models.
  
• Create business capability maps, business function models, service models, and value chain analyses.
  

Enterprise Architecture Alignment

• Ensure alignment between Business Architecture Documents (BAD), Solution Requirements Documents (SRD), and Information Architecture Documents (IAD).
  
• Support enterprise architecture governance processes and standards.
  
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, information architects, and business stakeholders.
  
• Contribute to architecture governance reviews, including Architecture Governance Point 1 (AGP1).
  

Business Process and Service Modeling

• Develop business process models using BPMN standards.
  
• Model business services, functions, outcomes, and performance measures.
  
• Define business capabilities, accountability models, and organizational relationships.
  
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement frameworks.
  

Data and Information Modeling

• Develop conceptual and logical data models.
  
• Create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) and data flow diagrams.
  
• Support information architecture initiatives and data governance objectives.
  
• Ensure business architecture artifacts support information management and data strategy requirements.
  

Governance and Compliance

• Apply OPS Enterprise Architecture methodologies and GO-ITS standards.
  
• Support governance controls and architecture compliance activities.
  
• Ensure business architecture solutions align with privacy, records management, information management, and accessibility requirements.
  
• Incorporate AODA standards and service design principles into architecture deliverables.
  

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage executives, senior management, business leaders, and technical teams.
  
• Present architecture recommendations and facilitate consensus-building activities.
  
• Support decision-making through effective communication and visual representation of business architecture concepts.
  
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback into architecture deliverables and governance submissions.
  

Mandatory Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience.
  
• Minimum 5 years of Business Architecture experience on large and complex projects.
  
• Experience delivering business architecture initiatives for government organizations, preferably within the Ontario Public Service (OPS), or other large public-sector or enterprise environments.
  
• Proven experience developing enterprise-level and program-level business architectures.
  

Business Architecture Expertise

• Business Capability Modeling.
  
• Business Function Modeling.
  
• Business Process Modeling (BPMN).
  
• Service Modeling and Service Design.
  
• Value Chain Analysis.
  
• Business Outcome Definition and KPI Development.
  
• Strategic Business Alignment.
  

Enterprise Architecture

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as:
  
• Zachman Framework
  
• TOGAF
  
• OPS Enterprise Architecture methodologies
  
• Experience participating in architecture governance processes and reviews.
  

Data Modeling

• Conceptual Data Modeling.
  
• Logical Data Modeling.
  
• Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs).
  
• Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs).
  

Technical and Architecture Tools

Experience with enterprise architecture and modeling tools such as:

• Sparx Enterprise Architect
  
• Orbus
  
• PowerDesigner
  
• Other enterprise modeling repositories and architecture tools
  

Government and Regulatory Knowledge

• OPS Enterprise Architecture governance processes.
  
• GO-ITS standards.
  
• Architecture Governance Point 1 (AGP1).
  
• Information Management principles.
  
• Privacy and Records Management practices.
  
• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
  
• Service Design principles and practices.
  

Required Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  
• Executive stakeholder management and facilitation.
  
• Workshop facilitation and consensus building.
  
• Strategic planning and business transformation expertise.
  
• Ability to develop enterprise-level architecture deliverables.
  
• Ability to align business, information, solution, and technology architecture domains.
  

Work Arrangement

• Five (5) days onsite.
  
• Government environment with extensive stakeholder engagement.
  
• Participation in architecture governance and enterprise transformation initiatives.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Ontario Public Service (OPS) experience.
  
• Experience with large-scale digital transformation programs.
  
• Experience aligning business architecture with acquired solutions and enterprise products.
  
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and innovation-driven business architecture practices.