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Business Architect

Full time

Toronto, ON

$95000 - $130000 CAD / year

 Our client is among the Global Top 25% of Most Engaged Companies. They are looking for a dynamic Business Architect to join their progressive and growing team.  
 
Job Description:
Accountable for the articulation of the business architecture strategy and roadmap. Develops artifacts, including business capability maps and value streams, to align business goals and objectives with underpinning technology solutions. Responsible for articulating specific architectural views and viewpoints that facilitate enterprise-wide business decisions. The role might also include participation in particular projects and initiatives.
  • Supports development of the business architecture strategy and roadmap     
  • Performs alignment with the corporate business goals and objectives.
  • Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and additional efficiencies
  • Conducts change assessments to determine the impact of proposed changes and support enterprise-level decision-making
  • Provides the required oversight and business process support as necessary to establish, maintain, and enhance business technology solutions and roadmaps to execute the Strategy, Vision, and goals of the business unit
  • Documents current capabilities and articulates a future state based on emerging business need
  • Supports development of the best path to implement change based on strategic business opportunity 
  • Contributing to defining and evolving architecture principles, policies and standards, governance, enterprise-wide decisions, etc.
  • Collaboration with the different lines of business (LoBs) to develop an enterprise-wide business capability model that captures value streams and business capabilities (at various levels of granularity).
 
Responsibility 
  • No financial responsibility
  • No direct reports
  • Provides authoritative guidance to peers and senior management on specialized areas, with full accountability for that advice
  • Partners with the Director, of Enterprise Architecture to collaborate on ideas and resolve issues related to area of specialization
  • Define current capabilities and articulate future state based on emerging business needs
  • Validate alignment between technology solutions and business unit strategies
Qualification Needed:
  • Minimum 7 years of work experience with a four-year college/university degree or 10 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience in the design and modelling of business solutions
  • Exposure to complex business process landscapes
  • TOGAF certification is an asset
  • Analytical skills to effectively use tools and methodologies
  • Excellent written and oral presentation skills
  • Ability to understand overarching business models as well as intricacies and nuances of the assigned functional business areas
  • Ability to establish and cultivate successful relationships with business leaders and tactfully handle feedback
  • Analytical skills to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details, as well as abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding
  • Ability to communicate effectively, influence others and initiate action
  • Interprets business needs at a tactical and strategic level
  • Highly organized and able to assist the business in governance processes
  • Ability to combine business and technical thinking 

Note: The successful candidate must be eligible to work in Canada and be subject to a background check.
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