Senior Business Architect - IT Projects

Description:

Background

Senior Business Architect would provide services to support the continuous improvement and modernization of various IT projects that support with our client's continuous improvement and modernization efforts by leveraging skillsets in business architecture, change and innovation to optimize internal and external stakeholder applications and services that align with their mandates.

Technical Criterias

• Must demonstrate has a minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience within the last fourteen (14) years working as a Business Architect within Large organizations tasked with the following; Researching, defining and communicating the current business architecture using deliverables such as: Strategy Maps, Business Model Canvas, Value Chains, Business Capability Models, and Business Process Models.
• Must demonstrate has a minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience within the last fourteen (14) years (as of bid closing) working as a Business Architect within *Large organizations tasked with the following; • Reviewing, Analyzing and evaluating emerging technologies, trends, business models and best practices for **senior management, to identify new services and delivery models that would better serve the clients or customers of the organization.
• Must demonstrate has a minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience within the last fourteen (14) years (as of bid closing) working as a Business Architect tasked with all the following; • Researching defining and communicating the value and Return on Investment (ROI) of proposed services and transformation initiatives through: Business Cases, Logic Models, Outcomes Registers, Benefits Realization Plans, KPIs.
• Must demonstrate, using project descriptions that has worked on a minimum of two (2) *Projects in the last five (5) years (as of bid closing) tasked with; • Guiding and leading people, process and organizational change in response to disruptive forces or opportunities towards desired business outcomes by meeting with a **variety of project stakeholders to help build awareness and secure buy-in for cross-organization initiatives and release readiness.
• Must demonstrate, using project descriptions that has worked on a minimum of two (2) *Projects in the last five (5) years (as of bid closing) tasked with; • Working with domain architects (information, data, application) and solution architects to align technical design decisions with business needs and goals.
• Must have valid Government of Canada's Reliablity clearance.
• Should demonstrate, using project descriptions, that at least 5 years of experience as a Business Architect. This experience should include: • Assessing transformation initiative impacts on job roles and organization structures • Making recommendations as to the best use of public funds.
• Should demonstrate experience within the last ten (10) years (as of bid closing) *Leading the following type of **Projects • Agile or Digital Transformation initiatives within the Government of Canada *Leading – Defined as the person in charge of the day to day activities of the project. **Projects must have a duration of at least six (6) months each to qualify.
• Should have one (1) of the following certifications; • Agile (scrum.org, Agile Alliance, PMI) • Change Management (PROSCII, Six Sigma, CCMP, ACMP) • PMP (Project Management Professional, PMI)

TASKS TO BE PERFORMED

Tasks may include but are not limited to:

• Developing policies and rules that allow the Agencies to carry out its mandate and functional responsibilities.
• Developing specifications for where, how and why the various Agencies components fit together.
• Researching, defining and communicating the current business architecture using deliverables by such methods as: Strategy Maps, Business Model Canvas, Value Chains, Business Capability Models, and Business Process Models.
• Reviewing, analyzing and evaluating emerging technologies, trends, business models and best practices to identify new services and delivery models that would better serve the clients or customers of the organization.
• Supporting the Agencies mandate by developing product roadmaps, frameworks, strategies, and contributing to project planning.
• Supporting deployments to meet business and application requirements.

• Identifying policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution.
• Analyzing, evaluate and document alternative project management technology solutions to meet business problems.
• Researching, defining and communicating the value and Return on Investment (ROI) of proposed services and transformation initiatives through: Business Cases, Logic Models, Outcomes Registers, Benefits Realization Plans, KPIs.
• Optimizing the overall architecture in terms of total cost of ownership by assessing third party license costs versus custom developed system components.
• Analyzing performance and recommend improvements.
• Preparing and delivering presentations as needed
• Delivering Conceptual Design and Design Documents
• Assessing the organizations capacity and capability to undertake and deliver on an initiative or a change

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