Expert, Information Architecture

Canadian National Railway Company•Montreal, QC

About The Position

The Expert, Information Architecture is responsible for ensuring, via models, standards, technologies, and processes, that information is handled as a strategic business. The role is for a driven information architect to help build the next generation cloud and web native applications for CN’s new customer facing portals. The new portal aims to service both existing and new customers and use-cases and will help bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern applications and flows.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of overall work experience
Minimum 5 years demonstrating technical leadership qualities or overseeing deliverables
Between 7 to 10 years experience in a similar role
Experience understanding, designing, and implementing information architectures that enable well-integrated transactional, collaborative and analytical systems
Experience with various information modelling types and techniques at the enterprise level
Inspires others with impactful communications and adapts to the audience through speech and writing
Applies analytical thinking
Innovates through problem solving
Knows the business and stays current with industry trends to elevate expertise and work
Demonstrates organizational abilities
Collaborates with key internal stakeholders to enable higher productivity
Works independently with little supervision
Expert Knowledge of taxonomies and ontologies, as well as the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modelling) to less structured sources
Expert Knowledge of designing high volume, high performance transactional applications and services data using information, data and integration patterns.
Good Knowledge of business intelligence, data warehousing, relational and non-relational database management systems, and other data structures.
Good Knowledge of best practices and latest trends in the information architecture practice (e.g., Non-Structured Query Language (NoSQL), Master Data Management (MDM), Big Data).
Knowledge of Information and Enterprise Architecture tools such as Ardoq, Enterprise Architect SparX, Erwin, Microsoft Visio or others
Knowledge of rail, transportation, or logistics industry
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent demonstrated experience

Nice To Haves

Any knowledge for any of the above would be considered as an asset

Responsibilities

Understand CN’s customer systems requirements and business processes and translates them into information architecture models.
Develop, deliver, maintain, communicate, and govern information architecture strategy, standards, guidelines, diagrams, and models.
Identify and resolve gaps between solution conceptual models and the Business Information Model (BIM) as well as gaps between solution logical models and the enterprise logical data model
Understand and govern business processes related to Customer Services applications.
Using Domain Drive Design to ensure alignment and architecture across domains.
Define the data architecture framework, standards, and principles, including modelling, metadata, security, reference data, master data, versioning, lineage, and data lifecycle.
Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to educate best practices for data management
Define the policies, procedures, models to be used in collecting, organizing, storing, and accessing information
Design conceptual data, logical data, and business process models
Communicate deliverables with software engineering and supporting the development of logical and physical data models
Design and lead the data model and overall architecture of the data
Ensure alignment with corporate information standards, policies, solution, technology, and business architecture
Participate in relevant recurring architecture & design meetings
Work with peer architects, providing guidance on a comprehensive governance model to ensure solutions are developed according to the developed information architecture