RQ08400 - Business Architect - Senior

MAG and SOLGEN seek to acquire an e-Discovery tool on an enterprise-wide basis to assist in conducting investigations, prosecutions and civil litigation on large scale and complex major cases. The tool is intended to address a core challenge in such cases: the time required to review documents and data collected by police or ministry clients, and vet out confidential or privileged information prior to disclosing them to opposing counsel.

Business Architects will work closely with MAG and SOLGEN business partners for the e-Discovery projects deliverables.

Scope

• Manage the planning, design, delivery, and implementation of architecture solutions for e-discovery project to meet critical business requirements of ministry clients
• Develop architectural artifacts, conduct reviews, and perform assessments to support the creation of ministry or enterprise-wide architectures, reference models, and I&IT projects.
• Collaborate with clients to develop secure application architectures for complex, high-availability, high-integrity, and high-confidentiality applications, typical in Justice applications.

Assignment Deliverables

• The Enterprise Information Architecture Federated Framework and ensures that these are integrated.
• Create, review, provide input, and support of Enterprise Architecture artifacts for all corporate or cluster checkpoints as required
• Create architecture documents such as data models (Conceptual/Logical/Physical) including integration of applications and information as required.
• Business models at enterprise and/or core business levels - Design capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources
• Develop and maintain architectural controls that are in alignment and adherence to Ministry of Government Services processes and standards
• Review standards and document business process flows, business logic, code dependencies, etc.
• Perform required analysis - business requirements, prepare functional/non-functional specifications & detail designs
• Create use cases and process flows; ensure alignment with the program area and associated business architecture, as well as traceability to solution logical and physical architectures.
• Consults with appropriate teams on specific business architecture elements and conducts focused group meetings to meet the deliverables.
• Participate in Knowledge transfer

Mandatory Requirements

• Proven experience and expertise with the development of Business Architecture artifacts for PaaS solutions utilizing PowerApps and SharePoint
• Successfully completed business architecture deliverables in government settings or similar large IT organization
• At least 10 years of experience in reviewing, collaborating and creating Architectural artifacts (like Solution Requirement Document, Business Architecture Document. Information Architecture Document, Solution Architecture Document)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for enterprise architecture deliverables such as, but not limited to: business functional modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping and other related disciplines
• Experience in converting client requirements and functional/non-functional specifications to architectural design artifacts with effort estimation
• Expertise in generating Entity relationship diagrams to describe the relation between different entities.
• Experience in modeling the business at the enterprise and/or core business levels for transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of life cycle methodologies for systems/software development for business applications and systems specifications design; software design, development, and integration; user interface design principles; database concepts; data and information architecture.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and, decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 40 Points

• At least 12 years experience in the creation of architecture documents (like business requirements, data models, functional/technical design)
• Ability to capture data and information needed to document, validate and analyze business processes of existing legacy systems and map them to the future state processes
• Experience in the use of business architecture and modeling software such as Power Designer, Enterprise Architecture

Criteria 2: Technical Expertise - 30 Points

• Experience in design and architecture especially for PaaS applications, preferred PowerApps and SharePoint, experience with cloud technologies
• Experience in leading teams to ensure all architectural artifacts are completed for all phases and aspects of a large-scale integrated projects
• Experience developing architecture artifacts for OPS/large IT organization architecture checkpoints and gating

Criteria 3: Communication Skills - 30 Points

• Proven ability to support the client in development of presentation materials and presenting to the wider audience
• Hands on experience in working with business stakeholders, internal project team, and vendors.
• Oral and written communication skills, interpersonal and consultative skills