Senior Information Architect

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive information architecture needs assessment under the guidance and leadership of project leads and cluster architects.
• Conducts and facilitates stakeholder interviews and/or workshops to determine reporting requirements.
• Plans, leads and facilitates review sessions to confirm and/or validate requirements.
• Lead, develop and present required information architecture artifacts to support Corporate/Cluster ARB approvals.
• Conceptual Data Model.
• Logical Data Model.
• Fact/Dimension Matrix.
• Logical Dimensional Model.
• Interface Data Requirements and design.
• Support project leads to create detailed plans and resource estimates for information architecture components.
• Provide information architecture expertise and support/inform to solution design/development.
• dhere to all applicable GO-ITS standards.
• Revise architectures per action and/or conditions arising from LRC's governance body (Project Gating Review Committee) and Corporate EA Governance review bodies as required.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Information Architecture Skills - 60%:

• Hands on demonstrated experience in the creation of data models (Conceptual, Logical, Physical) and capturing information integration requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in developing Fact & Dimensional Matrix and determining Resource Types, using existing Business Process Models.
• Demonstrated experience in creating and normalizing Logical Data Models (With complete attributes, data type and data size).
• Demonstrated experience in developing information architecture specifications through interpretation of relevant.
• Business Architecture models and other business/application specifications.
• Demonstrated experience in information modeling for Siebel based applications.
• Hands on experience creating architecture artefacts, models and/or reports using Power Designer.
• Demonstrated experience in leading in-depth and complex information architecture reviews and assessments, development and/or support projects, to support new and changed enterprise priorities and initiatives, and client clusters' and their clients' information architecture and/or business needs.
• Experience producing and presenting information architecture deliverables to successfully obtain Corporate/Cluster ARB approval.
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience applying / aligning with Government Information Architecture standards.

Soft Skills - 30%:

• Experience working with agile/iterative methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills, communication skills, both written and verbal and meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements.
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and Demonstrated consensus building skills.

Public Sector Experience - 10%:

• Experience with Government or Public Sector I&IT standards, project delivery methodologies, and practices.
• Experience with Government or Public Sector enterprise architecture review / approval processes (Cluster and Corporate).
• Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems.
• Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Government.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in creation of data models (Conceptual, Logical, Physical) and capturing information integration requirements.
• Experience producing and presenting information architecture deliverables (models) to successfully obtain Cluster/Corporate ARB approval.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in developing BI data models (conceptual, logical, physical).
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in creating and normalizing Logical Data Models with complete attributes, data type and data size.
• Demonstrated experience in information modeling for systems based on Siebel is an asset.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in developing information architecture specifications through interpretation of relevant Business Architecture models.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience in defining, identifying and describing information architectural requirements with clients, and obtaining I&IT management approval.
• Demonstrated experience in leading in-depth and complex information architecture reviews and assessments.
• Demonstrated experience in providing professional information architecture expertise and undertaking comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews in support of systems/infrastructure needs.
• Demonstrated experience providing plans and resource estimates for large-scale and complex information architecture projects.
• Demonstrated hands on experience creating architecture artefacts, models and/or reports using Power Designer (or similar architecture/modeling tools).