RQ07305 - Business Architect - Senior

Responsibilities

• Analyzes government information pertinent to business architecture consults with appropriate government contacts on specific business architecture elements and conducts focus group workshops.
  
• Develops and maintains business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans.
  
• Develops/revises business architecture artefacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Federated Framework and ensures that these are vertically integrated. Models business at enterprise and/or core business levels.
  
• Design of capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources developing business transformation plans jointly with senior business management handling business solutions to the delivery and operational business functions of the company developing and maintaining architectural governance and controls over implementation.
  
• For each step of the business transformation plan business architects contribute in development of a blueprint of the enterprise in order to promote a common understanding of the organization and alignment of strategic objectives with tactical demands
  

General Skills

• 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; Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex multiproject/multiclient organizations;
  
• Good understanding of diverse business environments especially government environments and a good understanding of the business drivers in these environments.
  
• Proven ability to identify and analyze business requirements.
  
• Knowledge and experience of information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify ITenabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs;
  
• Business and Information Management & IT strategic and operational planning and performance management practices especially as they apply to the public sector environment;
  
• 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 in developing enterprise architecture deliverables/artefacts (e.g. models) Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures.
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices Planning and implementation of information management strategy.
  
• Experience translating business requirements into technical and functional requirements Proven experience and expertise with the development of Business Architecture for an acquired solution
  
• Experience utilizing techniques and strategies to elicit identify validate analyze model and document Business Architecture
  
• 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 Demonstrated experience participating in business systems requirements analysis and solution design activities
  
• Experience completing business architectures in government settings or similar complex multiproject/multiclient organizations
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.