Job DescriptionResponsibilities:- Provide professional information architecture expertise, and undertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews in support of systems/infrastructure needs for clients (i.e. I&IT clusters, their clients and enterprise I&IT organizations).
- Participate in enterprise-wide and cross-jurisdictional architecture projects with information components.
General Skills:- Defines, identifies and describes information architectural requirements with clients, and obtains I&IT management approval.
- Develops and obtains approval for detailed plans and resource estimates for large- scale and complex information architecture projects and/or components of other projects with information architecture elements.
- Ability to complete 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.
- Researches, develops, implements and maintains information architectural policies and standards, as approved by management
- Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.
- Provides general and situation-specific information architecture interpretation advice and expertise to other project and/or enterprise level I&IT project teams, client management and staff, cluster clients, and external contractors.
- Leads and or/participates in highly sensitive information architecture investigations.
- Develops information architecture specifications for RFPs and participates in assessing bids and negotiating contracts/SLAs with service providers and vendors
- Demonstrated experience developing checkpoint deliverables and creating necessary artefacts for checkpoints
- Knowledge and experience creating information architecture artefacts such as logical and information data models
Desirable Skills:- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
RequirementsExperience and Skill Set Requirements:Must Haves:- Defines,identifies and describes information architecture requirements withbusiness and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstratedexperience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experiencedesigning and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Experiencewith Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadatamanagement solutions.
- Experiencesupporting enterprise data governance initiatives.
Nice to have:Prior OPS/public sector exp.
Ideal experience with the below:
- ControlledVocabulary Framework
- BusinessGlossary
- SemanticConcept Models
- InformationDomain Models
- InformationDomain Maps
- MetadataStandards and Frameworks
- InformationInventories
- Semanticalignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Informationarchitecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
Skill Set Requirements:General Skills:- Defines,identifies and describes information architecture requirements withbusiness and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstratedexperience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experiencedesigning and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Demonstratedexperience establishing common business definitions, controlledvocabularies, business glossaries, semantic models and information domainmodels to support interoperability, information sharing and enterprisedata governance across multiple business domains.
- Experiencedeveloping conceptual information models, information domain maps,controlled vocabularies, business glossaries and semantic structures thatsupport information discovery, interoperability, information sharing andcommon understanding of business concepts across organizationalboundaries.
- Abilityto conduct complex information architecture assessments and reviewssupporting enterprise modernization and digital transformationinitiatives.
- Experienceestablishing metadata standards, metadata models and information assetinventories.
- Experienceresearching, developing and maintaining information architecture policies,standards and best practices.
- Knowledgeof information governance, stewardship and information lifecyclemanagement principles.
- Experiencefacilitating stakeholder workshops to establish common businessterminology, business concepts and information requirements.
- Experiencedeveloping information architecture artefacts with traceability tobusiness capabilities, business processes and business requirements.
- Abilityto translate strategic business objectives into information architecturedeliverables and implementation roadmaps.
- Demonstratedability to provide expert information architecture advice to projectteams, business stakeholders and senior management.
- Experiencesupporting architecture governance processes, checkpoints and architecturereview boards.
- Stronganalytical, problem-solving, collaboration and communication skills.
Resource will support the following deliverables:- ControlledVocabulary Framework
- BusinessGlossary
- SemanticConcept Models
- InformationDomain Models
- InformationDomain Maps
- MetadataStandards and Frameworks
- InformationInventories
- Semanticalignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Informationarchitecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
Desirable Skills:- Experiencewith Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadatamanagement solutions.
- Experiencesupporting enterprise data governance initiatives.
- Knowledgeof semantic technologies, ontology concepts and knowledge graphinitiatives.
- Experiencewith public sector information architecture programs.
- Knowledgeand understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policiesand practices.
- Knowledgeand understanding of AODA and related standards.
- Abilityto manage competing priorities and tight timelines.
