Senior Business Architect

Downtown Toronto (Ryerson), Canada | Posted on 05/19/2026

The Senior Business Architect plays a critical role in shaping and aligning business architecture within a complex public-sector environment. This role focuses on analyzing programs and services, developing business and service models, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and target-state objectives. The individual will lead research, discovery sessions, and workshops, contribute to business transformation planning, and support architectural governance across business, application, technology, and security domains.

• Analyze information relevant to program design and business architecture within a government context.
• Lead and conduct research, discovery sessions, focus groups, and stakeholder workshops.
• Develop program and service definitions aligned to architectural standards and target-state architecture.
• Create and maintain business capabilities, service integration models, and governance frameworks.
• Develop and maintain business architecture artefacts in accordance with enterprise architecture standards.
• Model business architecture at enterprise, program, and service levels, including capability models, value streams, and accountability models.
• Ensure alignment of business architecture with application, technology, and security domains.
• Lead engagement through architectural governance checkpoints.
• Contribute to business transformation plans and enterprise blueprints to align strategy with execution.

• Strong knowledge of business architecture methods, techniques, and tools.
• Proven experience delivering business architecture initiatives in government or large, complex organizations.
• Ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into architectural models.
• Understanding of IT-enabled business transformation and public-sector operational environments.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experienced developing enterprise architecture artefacts and models.
• Knowledge of recognized enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience with public-sector enterprise architecture methodologies and standards.
• Knowledge of information management principles and practices.
• Experience translating business requirements into functional and technical requirements.
• Familiarity with accessibility legislation and standards.
• Experience supporting service design and digital delivery practices.
• Exposure to agile and scaled agile delivery methodologies.

• Business and process modeling tools
• Diagramming and documentation tools
• Collaborative whiteboarding and design tools
• Product backlog and agile delivery tools

• Enterprise architecture leadership and delivery experience
• Architecture documentation and governance expertise
• Communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities

• Total IT experience of at least 10 years, out of which 5 years doing Business Architecture on large complex projects
• Develop, lead and conduct Research Planning, Discovery and Workshops
• Develop and lead interviews, requirements elicitation and synthesis
• Creation of alignment of Business Architecture Document to the Solution Requirements Document (SRD) and the Information Architecture Document (IAD), as per best industry best practices, ensuring vertical integration.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Services modeling, Business Function Modeling, Business Process Modeling, proficient use of BPMN, Value Chain Analysis, Business Outcomes, Performance Measures and KPIs definition, Strategic, Legislative and Technology alignment,
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal + ability to package material for presentation.