Lead Business Architect
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Location: New Canada, NS B4V 4V5
Description:
Role: Lead Business Architect
Location: Victoria, BC (Hybrid) The Candidate should be prepared to be onsite working with the team at the BCPC offices for minimum of 2 days per week. Our Office location is 2940 Jutland Road, Victoria, BC
Contract Duration: 1 Year
Extension: 2 options of 1 Year each
Working Hours: 37.5 Hours
Rate:
Description of Services:
The business architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, service managers, service owners and service delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The business architect's scope of activities includes working with stakeholders to identify business capabilities and needs, helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to modernizing services, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on development and alignment of the business and IT strategy and business architecture of the organization as a whole. Reporting to the Vice President, Information Technology and Services, CIO. The Lead Business Architect must:
Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
Communicate the value of business architecture, and its portfolio of services
Working with other divisional SME's establish standard artifacts and templates for broader usage in support of Enterprise Architecture
Work with the stakeholders to define organization's strategic goals and identify the business capabilities required to execute the strategy.
Coach and mentor other team embedded architects and technical leads, service owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
The Lead Business Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.
1. Supports Formulation of Aligned Business/Technical Strategy and Guides Execution Works with Business and Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy and Roadmap
Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces. Understands the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction, and architecture.
Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of business strategy.
Uses planning-driven, design-driven, and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models. Connects Strategy to Execution
Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for business architecture aligned with technical architecture to formulate an overall enterprise roadmap.
2. Builds and Maintains Relationships Builds the Business Architecture Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement
Positions the BA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
Engages with leadership through both cyclical planning and continuous improvement to understand and align business need and inform technical roadmaps through ongoing engagement and translation priorities and key outcomes.
Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment. Enables Value-Based Messaging and Manages Cross-Functional Relationships
Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
3. Plans and Manages Business Demand within the IT Portfolio Supports Portfolio Modernization and Develops Roadmaps
Maintains the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or service-driven delivery teams. Supports Solutions Design and Delivery
Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision making.
Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, service management and service delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
4. Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes Develops the Business Architecture
Positions the BA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Working across embedded architecture and technical leads to ensure the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate, and execute business strategy.
Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
Lead resource and contributor to business value measurement metrics as defined within enterprise practice
Deliver and own updated business architecture and aligned technical/business roadmap Brings Alignment Across Business and IT
Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive businessoutcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., operational excellence, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
Competencies
Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
Balances the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital
Location: Victoria, BC (Hybrid) The Candidate should be prepared to be onsite working with the team at the BCPC offices for minimum of 2 days per week. Our Office location is 2940 Jutland Road, Victoria, BC
Contract Duration: 1 Year
Extension: 2 options of 1 Year each
Working Hours: 37.5 Hours
Rate:
Description of Services:
The business architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, service managers, service owners and service delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The business architect's scope of activities includes working with stakeholders to identify business capabilities and needs, helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to modernizing services, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. They focus on development and alignment of the business and IT strategy and business architecture of the organization as a whole. Reporting to the Vice President, Information Technology and Services, CIO. The Lead Business Architect must:
Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
Communicate the value of business architecture, and its portfolio of services
Working with other divisional SME's establish standard artifacts and templates for broader usage in support of Enterprise Architecture
Work with the stakeholders to define organization's strategic goals and identify the business capabilities required to execute the strategy.
Coach and mentor other team embedded architects and technical leads, service owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
The Lead Business Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.
1. Supports Formulation of Aligned Business/Technical Strategy and Guides Execution Works with Business and Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy and Roadmap
Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces. Understands the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction, and architecture.
Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of business strategy.
Uses planning-driven, design-driven, and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models. Connects Strategy to Execution
Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for business architecture aligned with technical architecture to formulate an overall enterprise roadmap.
2. Builds and Maintains Relationships Builds the Business Architecture Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement
Positions the BA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
Engages with leadership through both cyclical planning and continuous improvement to understand and align business need and inform technical roadmaps through ongoing engagement and translation priorities and key outcomes.
Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment. Enables Value-Based Messaging and Manages Cross-Functional Relationships
Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
3. Plans and Manages Business Demand within the IT Portfolio Supports Portfolio Modernization and Develops Roadmaps
Maintains the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or service-driven delivery teams. Supports Solutions Design and Delivery
Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision making.
Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, service management and service delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
4. Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes Develops the Business Architecture
Positions the BA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Working across embedded architecture and technical leads to ensure the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate, and execute business strategy.
Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
Lead resource and contributor to business value measurement metrics as defined within enterprise practice
Deliver and own updated business architecture and aligned technical/business roadmap Brings Alignment Across Business and IT
Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive businessoutcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., operational excellence, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
Competencies
Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
Balances the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital