RQ00723 - Business Architect - Senior

Maarut•Toronto, ON

About The Position

This role involves leading the development of the Data & Analytics Operating Model, including process and RACI, to implement PHO’s product-management approach for analytics. The position requires mapping the intake-to-delivery pipeline, defining roles and accountabilities, and assessing capability gaps. The Business Architect will support the establishment of the Data Science & Analytics Community of Practice, ensuring the operating model supports both foundational Engine work and the HealthMap initiative, while aligning with the PHDU. Responsibilities include producing operating-model and governance artifacts, analyzing business architecture information, conducting workshops, developing and maintaining business capabilities, and modeling the business at enterprise and core-business levels. The role also involves designing capability models, mapping functionality, developing business transformation plans, and creating enterprise blueprints that align strategic objectives with tactical demands.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.