Position: Senior Business Architect
Role Overview
The Senior Business Architect plays a critical role in
shaping and aligning business architecture within a complex public-sector
environment. This role focuses on analyzing programs and services, developing
business and service models, and ensuring alignment with enterprise
architecture standards and target-state objectives. The individual will lead
research, discovery sessions, and workshops, contribute to business
transformation planning, and support architectural governance across business,
application, technology, and security domains.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze
information relevant to program design and business architecture within a
government context.
- Lead
and conduct research, discovery sessions, focus groups, and stakeholder
workshops.
- Develop
program and service definitions aligned to architectural standards and
target-state architecture.
- Create
and maintain business capabilities, service integration models, and
governance frameworks.
- Develop
and maintain business architecture artefacts in accordance with enterprise
architecture standards.
- Model
business architecture at enterprise, program, and service levels,
including capability models, value streams, and accountability models.
- Ensure
alignment of business architecture with application, technology, and
security domains.
- Lead
engagement through architectural governance checkpoints.
- Contribute
to business transformation plans and enterprise blueprints to align
strategy with execution.
General Skills & Experience
- Strong
knowledge of business architecture methods, techniques, and tools.
- Proven
experience delivering business architecture initiatives in government or
large, complex organizations.
- Ability
to analyze business requirements and translate them into architectural
models.
- Understanding
of IT-enabled business transformation and public-sector operational
environments.
- Excellent
communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management
skills.
- Experience
developing enterprise architecture artefacts and models.
- Knowledge
of recognized enterprise architecture frameworks.
Desirable Skills
- Experience
with public-sector enterprise architecture methodologies and standards.
- Knowledge
of information management principles and practices.
- Experience
translating business requirements into functional and technical
requirements.
- Familiarity
with accessibility legislation and standards.
- Experience
supporting service design and digital delivery practices.
- Exposure
to agile and scaled agile delivery methodologies.
Tools & Technologies
- Business
and process modeling tools
- Diagramming
and documentation tools
- Collaborative
whiteboarding and design tools
- Product
backlog and agile delivery tools
Evaluation Criteria
- Enterprise
architecture leadership and delivery experience
- Architecture
documentation and governance expertise
- Communication,
facilitation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities
Must Have:
- Total
IT experience of at least 10 years, out of which 5 years doing Business
Architecture on large complex projects
- Develop,
lead and conduct Research Planning, Discovery and Workshops
- Develop
and lead interviews, requirements elicitation and synthesis
- Creation
of alignment of Business Architecture Document to the Solution
Requirements Document (SRD) and the Information Architecture Document
(IAD), as per best industry best practices, ensuring vertical
integration.
- Demonstrated
knowledge and experience with Services modeling, Business Function
Modeling, Business Process Modeling, proficient use of BPMN, Value Chain
Analysis, Business Outcomes, Performance Measures and KPIs definition,
Strategic, Legislative and Technology alignment,
- Excellent
communication skills - written and verbal + ability to package material
for presentation.
About Symbiotic Digital
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that
solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do
for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)
We serve customers in two ways:
- Digital
Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven
Results
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital
provides a business system that enables us to deliver expert technical staff to
solve complex business and IT challenges. Trusted by leading organizations
across Canada, we are a 100% Indigenous-owned company.
Skills Required
- Total IT experience of at least 10 years, 5 years in Business Architecture on large projects
- Develop, lead and conduct Research Planning, Discovery and Workshops
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
What We Do
Symbiotic Group Inc. is a consulting company that helps SMBs drive measurable results in sales, digital marketing, and operations. They also provide IT consulting services and focus on advancing business and career opportunities for Indigenous peoples.
