Senior Business Architect

Candidates MUST be authorized to work in Canada / hold a valid work visa. CCI does not sponsor work visas.

Description:

A Senior Business Architect is needed to support Enterprise Architecture artifact creation for five projects within the Geospatial Ontario IT Program.

1. GIS
   Delivery Platform Planned Maintenance FY % allocation or 11 days of effort)
2. This is an annually reoccurring maintenance project for the GIS Delivery Platform (GDP). Work this fiscal will focus on software patching, Portal for
   ArcGIS
   implementation,
   Geocortex
   to
   VertiGIS
   migration, Cyber Security analysis/mitigations, and platform architecture review/documentation.
3. GIS Delivery Platform Planned Maintenance FY % allocation or 16 days of effort)
4. This is an annually reoccurring maintenance project for the GIS Delivery Platform (GDP). Work this fiscal will focus on software patching,
   ArcGIS
   Server, Windows, FME, VertiGIS and Oracle upgrades.
5. GIS Delivery Platform Modernization FY % allocation or 11 days of effort)
6. This is a GIS infrastructure modernization project focused on implementing modern platform monitoring, analytics, and reporting middleware.
7. GEO Data Maintenance Modernization (28% allocation or 25 days of effort)
8. This project aims to modernize the legacy LIO Editor GIS data maintenance solution. This is an implementation project for procuring new GIS infrastructure, configuring middleware, building editing tools, procedures, and following Ontario Government IT governance standards.
9. ArcGIS Portal (28% allocation or 25 days of effort)
10. This is a new high-priority project for multiple ministries. This project focuses on provisioning required ArcGIS Enterprise infrastructure and middleware resources, configuring, then deploying a Federated Portal for multi-ministry shared usage.

The successful candidate will be asked to complete professional Business and Information Architectures at the enterprise and/or core business levels for governments or large organizations.

You would be joining augmented project teams which includes a Senior Business/Information Architect, a Senior Solution Architect, multiple Senior Solution Designers, Senior Project Managers, Senior Service Designers, Senior Business Analysts, Vendor Subject Matter Experts, diverse technical teams (developers, testers, specialists, Database experts), and client business/technical leads.

Business/Information Architecture documentation would be developed in support of Enterprise Architecture Gating for 5 Geospatial Ontario IT Program projects. These project focus on the
GIS Delivery Platform and the Geospatial Ontario
client's operational mandate.

Led by you and another Solution Architect, the project team will work through the AGP 0, 1, 2 and 3 engagements with the LRC Enterprise Architecture team, Cluster, and Corporate Enterprise Architecture Review Board.

Mandatory Skills Requirement:

• You have a good understanding business process modelling alignment with data modeling and information resource management.
• You have extensive experience with OPS Enterprise Architecture Gating processes, with an emphasis on Architectural Gate Point 1 and 2 and the creation, review, and engagement process

Experience and Skill Set Requirements (Evaluation Criteria):

Information Architecture Technical Skills (45%):

• You have a good understanding business process modelling alignment with data modeling and information resource management.

• You have extensive experience with
OPS Enterprise Architecture
Gating processes, with an emphasis on Architectural Gate Point 1 and 2 and the creation, review, and engagement process.

• You have expertise in I&IT architecture (experience in one or more architecture domains, Business, and or data/information architecture expertise), IT strategies (business and technology solutions roadmap development), policies, standards, plans, current and emerging enterprise architecture principles, methodologies and frameworks (such as
Zachman
or
TOGAF
).

• You are a technology generalist and have breadth of knowledge across all architecture pillars (business, data, integration, infrastructure, application, and security), current and emerging technologies and are able to provide advice on the full life cycle of solution design and delivery to project solution architects and stakeholders.

• You can apply leading industry good practices and OPS standards in architecture design, software and systems engineering.

Research and Analytical Skills (20%):

• You have analytical skills to develop architectural solutions to meet complex, multi-year plans, spanning multiple internal/external stakeholders and broadly defined business objectives.

• You are able to research and recommend the innovative architecture deliverables that meet the business needs

• You are able to identify opportunities to leverage and introduce new and emerging technologies.

• You have problem solving skills to resolve significant integration, business and technical issues to address multiple systems/applications interfaces and interdependencies where requirements are not initially clear.

Leadership, Consultation, Collaboration, Facilitation, and Communication Skills (35%):

• You can establish effective working relationships; obtain support for I&IT strategies, portfolio solution decisions that align with ministry and OPS.

• You can lead/facilitate meetings to discuss/determine strategy and roadmap for architecture priorities and change management directions.

• You have strong negotiation and influencing skills to influence key decision-makers.

• You have effective consulting skills to engage multiple stakeholders and clients and identify top business needs.

• You can work with peer architects ,
GIS
and Information Management Specialists or analysts as a team under the leadership of the lead architects and project managers.

• You can develop options and make recommendations to stakeholders, management, and staff regarding information/data models and solutions that designed to align with ministry and OPS strategies.

• You have consultation and collaboration skills to consult with multiple stakeholders and clients to provide insights into the technology options and provide advice and recommendations to management staff regarding architecture strategy options.

• You have facilitation skills to lead discussions among stakeholders with different interests to land on portfolio decisions that align with ministry and OPS strategies.

• You have negotiation skills to establish effective working relationships with stakeholders and move the Portfolio IT Roadmaps forward.

• You can present the strategies and solutions to senior management and client ministry information and business SMEs.

• You can provide advice regarding approaches to contentious architecture design.

• You can lead planning sessions with ministry client, corporate IT groups, and development vendor.

Core Skills Required:

• Total IT experience of at least 10 years, out of which 5 years doing Business Architecture on large complex projects.

• Excellent communication, concept visualization, facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, consensus building, and problem- solving skills.

• Experience collaborating with executives and senior management.

• Successfully completed Business and Information Architectures at the enterprise and/or core business levels for governments or large organizations.

• Contributed to the successful transformation of government or large organization program delivery by applying Business Architecture practices.

• Ability to work across Projects in a Portfolio.

• Experience creating Conceptual and Logical Data models mapped against process requirements.

• Proven ability in designing optimized future versions of business areas.

• Proven ability in horizontal business integration (i.e., identifying common elements, delineation points)

• Knowledge of or experience in Government of Ontario Information Technology Standards (GO-ITS) for Architecture.

• Data Modeling and development of solution and Program Area(s) Data Architecture.

• Development of solution and Program Area(s) Information Architecture and corresponding Information Architecture Documentation (IAD) according to OPS standards and industry best practices.

• Knowledge of or experience with Information Management, including Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Records Management.

• Knowledge of or experience with Ideation, including Information/Data Requirements Analysis and corresponding Test Strategy planning.

• Experience in developing business architectures using Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture methodologies and GO-ITS.

• Development of Program Area(s) Business Architecture and corresponding Business Architecture.