Senior Business Architect Contract

On behalf of our Public Sector client, Wirehead has a new contract opportunity for a Senior Business Architect.

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Client: Government
Type: Contract
Role: Senior Business Architect
Term: 8 Months + extension
Pay Rate: Open
Start date: Negotiable
Req ID: 5963
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Requirements: What you’ll need
 
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
 
Deliverables:

Evaluation Criteria:
Business Architecture – 20%

·       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

Technical/Solution Architecture – 40%

·       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 technical/solution 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

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

Skills:

·       Experience and Skill Set Requirements
·       10+ years of experience leading multi-tier application infrastructure design, documentation and configuration for medium or large corporate implementations
·       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
·       Experience in completing business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations
·       Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
·       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
·       Experience in modeling solution requirements, design and components for enterprise scale COTS solutions, Oracle Siebel preferred
·       Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures

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
·       Identifying issues and risks to be managed or addressed to facilitate mitigation
·       Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts
·       Experience architecting enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel
·       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
·       Experience with agile
·       Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigation

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for this opportunity by using the Apply button or sending your resume directly to careers@wirehead.com

We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly. Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities.

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***This opportunity is in Toronto; preference will be given to local candidates. Wirehead does not offer a relocation package. We encourage you continue to refer to our Job listing page as new opportunities become available and updated on a regular basis. Thank you again for your interest in Wirehead!