RQ00723 - Business Architect - Senior

• Leads development of the Data & Analytics Operating Model — to the process and RACI level — that instantiates PHO’s product-management approach for analytics.
  
• Maps the intake-to-delivery pipeline (intake, triage, prioritization, delivery) and define clear roles and accountabilities across the Engine.
  
• Assesses capability gaps against the operating model and identify and recommend solutions to close them.
  
• Supports standing up the Data Science & Analytics Community of Practice with OCMOH and PHUs, embedding it in the operating model.
  
• Ensures the operating model supports both foundational Engine work and the HealthMap initiative, to start, and aligns with and advances the PHDU as the platform foundation for the Engine.
  
• Produces operating-model and governance artefacts suitable for OCMOH formal reporting, accountability, and approval.
  
• Analyzes information pertinent to business architecture, consults with appropriate contacts on specific business architecture elements, and conducts focus-group workshops.
  
• Develops and maintains the business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy, and contributes to business strategy and plans.
  
• Develops and revises business architecture artefacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Federated Framework, ensuring they are vertically integrated.
  
• Models the business at the enterprise and/or core-business levels.
  
• Designs capability models and related architectural solutions; maps capability functionality to internal and external resources; develops business transformation plans jointly with senior business management; and develops and maintains architectural governance and controls over implementation.
  
• For each step of the business transformation plan, contributes to a blueprint of the enterprise that promotes a common understanding of the organization and aligns strategic objectives with tactical demands.
  

Key Deliverables

• Data & Analytics Operating Model — business architecture, end-to-end process maps, and RACI.
  
• Product-management model for analytics, instantiated through process and accountabilities.
  
• Capability gap assessment with recommended solutions and a transformation roadmap.
  
• Architectural governance and controls for the Engine, with enterprise blueprint artefacts.
  
• Community of Practice operating design (roles, cadence, engagement with OCMOH and PHUs).
  

Required Skills

• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques, and tools for business architecture, such as business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, value chain analysis, and related disciplines.
  
• Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations.
  
• Good understanding of diverse business environments — especially government environments — and the business drivers within them.
  
• 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 and needs.
  
• Business and Information Management & IT strategic and operational planning and performance-management practices, especially as they apply to the public sector.
  
• 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 developing enterprise architecture deliverables / artefacts (e.g., models).
  
• Knowledge of the Zachman Framework, including business / information / application / technology / security architectures.
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience developing enterprise architecture deliverables based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
  
• Planning and implementation of information management strategy.
  
• Experience translating business requirements into technical and functional requirements.
  
• Proven experience and expertise developing Business Architecture for an acquired solution.
  
• Experience using techniques and strategies to elicit, identify, validate, analyze, model, and document Business Architecture.
  
• Demonstrated experience participating in business systems requirements analysis and solution design activities.
  
• Experience completing business architectures in government or similarly complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
  

Expected Skills

• Be an advanced professional able to apply concepts, practices, and procedures in practice.
  
• Work with minimal direction and lead and train others in technical components and concepts.
  
• Plan, lead, and deliver complex deliverables that provide options for decisions within the organization.
  
• Bring a high level of expertise in the required skill set, specialized in the technical area, and provide specific advisory support as required.
  

Must Haves:

• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques, and tools for business architecture, such as business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, value chain analysis, and related disciplines.
  
• Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations.
  
• Good understanding of diverse business environments — especially government environments — and the business drivers within them.
  
• 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 and needs