Lead Business Architect [BHJOB13022_13174} - Jobs in Victoria

Job Description

On behalf of our client in Victoria, BC, Ignite Technical Resources is looking for a Business Architect for a 12-months contract position. This position requires 2-days of on-site work per week at their Victoria office.Role: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.Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• 10+ years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as:
  • Business, information, solution or technical architecture
  • Application development
  • Middleware
  • Information analysis
  • Database management
  • Operations in a multitier environment
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, businessamp; IT principles, and processes.

Due to the volume of resumes, only those candidates being considered will be contacted.Ignite Technical Resources is a Vancouver-based Information Technology resourcing firm built around three principles: speed, efficiency and quality. We provide highly trained and qualified technical consultants to your organization as a flexible work force option.Ignite. Wired for people.Follow Ignite on Twitter @ignitetechnical and become a fan on Facebook for up-to-date information about our company including job postings!About Ignite Technical:Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Vancouver BC, Ignite Technical Resources has been the preferred IT Staffing provider for many of Canada’s largest and well-known organizations for over 15 years.By specializing in Information Technology, we ensure that our processes are focused exclusively on providing qualified IT Professionals and our commitment to speed ensures your teams and projects are staffed quickly and efficiently. Our years of experience provide us with one of the most well-developed networks of candidates in the Canadian market. Come see why Ignite Technical is one of Canada’s premier providers of IT Professionals On-Demand.Ignite Technical Resources – Your Source for Top Talent