Lead Business Architect

2 weeks ago

Victoria, Canada Whopper Technologies Full time
Job Title: Lead Business Architect

Location: Hybrid -Victoria, BC

Duration: 1 years, extended 2 years

Seniority on the skill/s required on this requirement: Senior

Work authorization: any (candidate must be authorized to work in CA)

Must have skills: Minimum 10 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.

Job Description

The business architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, service managers, service owners and service delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The business architect’s scope of activities includes working with stakeholders to identify business capabilities and needs, helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to modernizing services, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on development and alignment of the business and IT strategy and business architecture of the organization. Reporting to the Vice President, Information Technology and Services, CIO.

The Lead Business Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.

  • Supports Formulation of Aligned Business/Technical Strategy and Guides Execution
  • Builds and Maintains Relationships
  • Plans and Manages Business Demand within the IT Portfolio
  • Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
  • Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
  • Analyse trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
  • Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
  • Communicate the value of business architecture, and its portfolio of services
  • Working with other divisional SME’s establish standard artifacts and templates for broader usage in support of Enterprise Architecture
  • Work with the stakeholders to define organization’s strategic goals and identify the business capabilities required to execute the strategy.
  • Coach and mentor other team embedded architects and technical leads, service owners/managers and business stakeholders to instil architectural thinking
  • Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
  • Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
  • Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
  • Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
  • Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.
  • Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
  • Candidate should have at the minimum 10 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant
  • Candidate should have at the minimum 10 or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
  • Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
  • Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management
  • Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
  • Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL framework
  • Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
  • Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
  • Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
  • Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development
  • Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles, and processes

Whopper Technologies, a minority women-owned enterprise, is at the forefront of digital transformation, technology excellence, and business growth solutions. Specializing in talent mobilization and innovation, we are dedicated to enhancing customer experiences across diverse sectors such as Information Technology, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Engineering, and the Public sector. With a focus on deploying top-tier talent and fostering innovation, we empower businesses to thrive and excel in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, helping them reach new heights of success.

Whopper Technologies is committed to fostering workforce diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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