Government of Ontario - Business Architect
Responsibilities
Analyzes government information pertinent to business architecture, consults with appropriate government contacts on specific business architecture elements and conducts focus group workshops. Develops/revises business architecture artifacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Federated Framework and ensures that these are vertically integrated. Models business at enterprise and/or core business levels.
General Skills
- 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;
- Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multiproject/multi-client organizations;
- Good understanding of diverse business environments, especially government environments, and a good understanding of the business drivers in these environments;
- Proven ability to identify and analyze business requirements;
- Knowledge and experience with of information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs;
- Business and IM/IT strategic and operational planning and performance management practices,especially as they apply to the public sector environment;
- Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills;
- Demonstrated commitment and proven ability to do 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 in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models)
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology /security architectures.
- Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management (including record keeping) policies and
practices
