Business Architect

Description :

· Providing leadership, guidance and support to the project team and subject matter experts; creates and maintains all models/artefacts/diagrams as it relates to establishing a shared use solution

· Update, develop and validate of all required business architecture and application architecture models/artefacts, documents and materials (according to industry best practices, GO-ITS standards and OPS EA guidelines using the appropriate version)

· Collaborates with cluster staff, project teams, clients and other OPS partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment

· Develops business processes using BPMN leveraging cluster/ministry tools and model repository (e.g. Power Designer)

· Identify issues and risks to be managed or addressed, and assist the project team or Client to facilitate mitigation

· Arrange and facilitate validation sessions

· Develop/revise business and/or application architecture artefacts according to cluster and corporate guidance

· Leads privacy impact assessment (PIA) and threat risk assessment (TRA) activities in collaboration with cluster staff, technical team members and other partners as required; including responding to and/or actioning any risk recommendations or mitigations that may follow

· Researches industry best practices and conducts environmental or jurisdictional scans

· Participate in review and information sharing meetings

· Support Agile Enterprise Architecture delivery during the project

· Develop reference architecture artefacts/models/patterns for to enable shared use for future clients

· Arrange and facilitate Enterprise Architecture (EA) meetings with cluster staff, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders as required

· Support the process of acquiring cluster and corporate approvals such as Project Gating, LRC cluster governance processes, corporate architecture governance points (AGP), digital first assessments

· Provide status updates to both the project team and EA unit

· Provide transfer of knowledge and project deliverables to identified cluster staff

· Adhere to all OPS GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 56.0, GO-ITS 56.1, GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required

· Revise architectures per action and/or conditions arising from LRC’s governance body (Project Gating Review Committee) and Corporate EA Governance review bodies as required

· Utilize, reuse, and incorporate OPS Reference Architectures into the project architectures

· Ensure alignment with any other related and relevant business materials

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

Evaluation Criteria:

Business Architecture - 30%

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
• Demonstrated experience leading and facilitating workshops to gather business and application information, including validation and review sessions
• Demonstrated experience capturing business requirements, conducting business process re-engineering, business design and optimization; identification of and alignment to business goals, as well as business performance measures
• Demonstrated ability to leverage latest industry best practices and trends
• Hands on experience developing business processes using BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)
• Identifying issues and risks to be managed or addressed to facilitate mitigation

Application/Solution Architecture – 30%

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts
• Hands on demonstrated experience leading all aspects of solution design, including security and privacy
• Experience architecting enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel

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