Senior Information Architect

Position: Senior Information Architect

Duration: 6 Months assignment (contract)
Client Location: Toronto (Onsite: 7.25 hours/day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday)
Engagement Model: Professional Services Engagement – B2B (Incorporated Entities Only)

Note on Assignment Type

This position is provisionally Onsite, requiring 7.25 hours per calendar day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (excluding breaks). Conditions may change based on organizational requirements and at the discretion of the Hiring Manager.

About the Engagement

Akkodis is seeking a highly experienced Senior Information Architect to support enterprise-wide information architecture initiatives, digital transformation programs, and information management modernization efforts.

The successful consultant will provide strategic and operational information architecture expertise, working closely with business and technical stakeholders to establish information frameworks, taxonomies, metadata standards, business glossaries, and semantic models that support enterprise interoperability, information sharing, public service, and decision-making.

Scope

• Define and document enterprise information architecture requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.

• Develop information architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and strategic roadmaps.

• Design and implement enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks, and metadata standards.

• Conduct information architecture assessments and reviews supporting modernization initiatives.

Assignment Deliverables

• Semantic alignment of business concepts across participating organizations

• Information architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models

• Architecture standards, policies, and implementation recommendations

• Information architecture roadmaps and public service deliverables.

Expertise Required

Must Have:

• Defines, identifies and describes information architecture requirements with business and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.

• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks, principles, standards and roadmaps.

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.

• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadata management solutions.

• Experience supporting enterprise data public service initiatives.

Nice to Have:

• Experience creating logical data models and information architecture specifications.

• Experience supporting procurement activities, RFP development, and vendor evaluations.

Security Clearance

Required.

Important

This is a business-to-business engagement. Candidates must represent an incorporated entity, hold a valid business number, maintain appropriate insurance, and invoice for services rendered.

How to Apply

Submit your resume in confidence via the Akkodis Canada website.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.

Accessibility:

At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matter. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we’re making the future work for everyone.