Business Architect 7959-2412

at  Foilcon

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
  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)

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
• 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