Senior Enterprise Information Architect

Job Description

Procom is currently looking for a Senior Enterprise Information Architect for our client in the public sector

THIS CONTRACT HAS A TBD START DATE AND GOES FOR 8 MONTHS LATER (GREAT CHANCE OF EXTENSION)
LOCATION: HYBRID (3 DAYS PER WEEK ONSITE EITHER OTTAWA OR TORONTO)
**SOME TRAVEL ONCE PER QUARTER**
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
CLEARANCE: ELIGIBLE FOR RELIABILITY
REFERENCES: 2

Skills and Competencies

Must Have:
 

• Minimum of (10) years of experience in a senior leadership role
• Minimum of (10) years of relevant functional experience including data modeling, and information classification expertise at the enterprise level
• Minimum of (10) years of experience related to information architecture frameworks, information models, metamodels, taxonomies and ontologies
• Experience working in a unionized environment an asset.
• Strategically minded with understanding of business and data to drive business value and financial objectives.
• Experience in creating innovative strategies to improve the organization’s ability to drive data driven decision making.
• Experience in managing relationships with technology, operations, and business members.
• Experience in assessing financial, human and customer impacts.

Nice to have:
 

• TOGAF
• MBA

***IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS POSITION, PLEASE SEND AN UPDATED RESUME IN WORD FORMAT WITH THE DETAILED INFORMATON THAT IS LISTED UNDER THE EXPERIENCE AND LIST THE PROESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS THAT YOU HAVE WORKED WITH***

STATEMENT OF WORK

Duties and Key Responsibilities

Functional / Technical:
 

• Create and maintain an Enterprise Information Management framework.
• Create and manage conceptual business information models to provide the organization with a future-state view of the information landscape that is unencumbered by the specific data implementation details imposed by proprietary solutions or technologies.
• Define and implement a systemic use of metamodels, taxonomies and ontologies to support the Enterprise’s data assets.
• Maintain repositories for representing the data assets including sources, structure, business glossary, classification, and associations (High-level flows)
• Assist data and analytics leaders, and business and IT leadership in developing information governance processes and structures.
• Maintain the strategic direction for enterprise information management.
• Translate the information architecture contribution to business outcomes into simple briefings for use by various stakeholder groups.
• Lead discovery sessions with primary business stakeholders to obtain knowledge of business data objectives, challenges, and requirements
• Maintain a vision for the enterprise information management capabilities and lead the development of the enterprise information management roadmap championing innovative solutions that are scalable, adaptable, and synchronized with ever-changing business needs and the complexity of digital transformation
• Enable and promote the discoverability of information assets with a focus on self service
• Lead discovery sessions with primary business stakeholders to obtain knowledge of business data objectives, challenges, and requirements
• Support the Enterprise Data Architect in the identification and recommendation of appropriate enterprise data solutions
• Mentor other data architects , both within the team and within other enterprise services or business units, in order to promote broad understanding of the enterprises’ data assets

Leadership:
 

• Be an evangelist and agent of cultural change by championing the use of digital technology and practices in order to establish a digital mindset from the top down
• Drive collaboration, knowledge sharing and best practices among partners and colleagues to help establish a robust digital ecosystem, positively impacting business outcomes
• Take responsibility to advance the digital dexterity of business partners and present new business options and opportunities based on successful digital examples

 

This employer uses both human and technology-assisted tools to support candidate screening and assessment. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

This posting is for a public sector assignment. Compensation will be determined through the competitive bidding process and will be within the approved rate structure for this assignment.