RQ09073 Business Architect

Advantages
- Lead architecture efforts in a high-impact modernization project
- Apply frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF in a structured enterprise environment
- Collaborate with stakeholders across business, technology, and governance teams
- Opportunity to influence change management and enterprise strategy

Responsibilities
- Develop enterprise architecture deliverables and artifacts in alignment with Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practices.
- Utilize frameworks such as the Zachman Framework to design business, information, application, technology, and security architectures.
- Analyze information relevant to business architecture and conduct focus group workshops with stakeholders.
- Model business processes and capabilities at the enterprise and core business levels, including capability models and architectural solutions.
- Provide project management for large-scale, complex, and high-profile IT initiatives, ensuring adherence to standard methodologies.
- Ensure project deliverables meet clients' business requirements, budget, and timelines while maintaining compliance with OPS project management frameworks.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and analyze business requirements, integrating IT-enabled opportunities to address business needs.
- Facilitate communication, negotiation, and consensus-building among diverse stakeholders.
- Proactively identify and mitigate potential risks and issues throughout project lifecycles.
- Overcome resistance to change and capitalize on supportive forces at all project stages.

Qualifications
Must Haves:
- Demonstrated experience in crafting enterprise architecture deliverables compliant with Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practices.
- Proficiency in frameworks such as the Zachman Framework, TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), or other relevant frameworks.
- Deep understanding of diverse business environments, with a focus on government settings, including familiarity with key business drivers in these contexts.
- Understanding of data modelling principles and techniques, including entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) and data flow diagrams.

General Skills:
- Mastery of various methods, techniques, and tools for business architecture, including but not limited to business functional modelling, service lifecycle modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping, and value chain analysis.
- Deep understanding of diverse business environments, with a focus on government settings, including familiarity with key business drivers in these contexts.
- Proven ability to identify and analyze business requirements, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Knowledge and experience in leveraging information technology to integrate solutions and identify IT-enabled opportunities that address business pressures and needs effectively.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and consensus-building skills essential for effective stakeholder management and project execution.
- Demonstrated experience as a business architect, adept at modelling business structures at both enterprise and core business levels for medium to large organizations.
- Proficiency in the Zachman Framework, encompassing business, information, application, technology, and security architectures.
- Ability to advocate for and promote I&IT project management best practices, ensuring adherence to standard methodologies for successful project delivery.
- Proactive identification of potential risk events and issues, with the ability to develop mitigating strategies to circumvent challenges.
- Aptitude in articulating and prioritizing issues and risks at senior executive levels, recommending mitigation strategies, and employing effective change management strategies throughout project lifecycles.

Desirable Skills:
- Experience working within the public sector or large corporate environments, with an understanding of the unique challenges and constraints faced in these settings.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

Summary
Our client is seeking a highly capable Business Architect to lead business design and architecture initiatives for a core system modernization. The ideal candidate will combine deep architectural experience, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills to help define and guide transformation outcomes. If you are a collaborative professional with hands-on knowledge of enterprise frameworks and a passion for business alignment, this opportunity is for you.

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