RQ10910 - Business Architect - Senior

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts

• Hands on demonstrated experience leading all aspects of solution design, including security and privacy

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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