Business Architect Contract

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

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Client: Government
Type: Contract
Role: Business Architect
Term: 8 Months + extension
Pay Rate: $110
Start date: Negotiable
Req ID: 5964
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Requirements: What you’ll need
 
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
 
Deliverables:

·       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

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

Application/Solution Architecture – 30%

·       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
·       Strong stakeholder management skills
·       Demonstrated consensus building skills

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)
·       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:

·       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
·       Experience architecting enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel
·       Experience with agile

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.

Wirehead is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please let our recruiter know.

***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!