Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Must Haves:
- Defines,
identifies and describes information architecture requirements with
business and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstrated
experience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,
principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experience
designing and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,
business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Experience
with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadata
management solutions.
- Experience
supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.
Nice to have:
Prior OPS/public sector exp.
Ideal experience with the below:
- Controlled
Vocabulary Framework
- Business
Glossary
- Semantic
Concept Models
- Information
Domain Models
- Information
Domain Maps
- Metadata
Standards and Frameworks
- Information
Inventories
- Semantic
alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Information
architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
Skill Set Requirements:
General Skills:
- Defines,
identifies and describes information architecture requirements with
business and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstrated
experience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,
principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experience
designing and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,
business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Demonstrated
experience establishing common business definitions, controlled
vocabularies, business glossaries, semantic models and information domain
models to support interoperability, information sharing and enterprise
data governance across multiple business domains.
- Experience
developing conceptual information models, information domain maps,
controlled vocabularies, business glossaries and semantic structures that
support information discovery, interoperability, information sharing and
common understanding of business concepts across organizational
boundaries.
- Ability
to conduct complex information architecture assessments and reviews
supporting enterprise modernization and digital transformation
initiatives.
- Experience
establishing metadata standards, metadata models and information asset
inventories.
- Experience
researching, developing and maintaining information architecture policies,
standards and best practices.
- Knowledge
of information governance, stewardship and information lifecycle
management principles.
- Experience
facilitating stakeholder workshops to establish common business
terminology, business concepts and information requirements.
- Experience
developing information architecture artefacts with traceability to
business capabilities, business processes and business requirements.
- Ability
to translate strategic business objectives into information architecture
deliverables and implementation roadmaps.
- Demonstrated
ability to provide expert information architecture advice to project
teams, business stakeholders and senior management.
- Experience
supporting architecture governance processes, checkpoints and architecture
review boards.
- Strong
analytical, problem-solving, collaboration and communication skills.
Resource will support the following deliverables:
- Controlled
Vocabulary Framework
- Business
Glossary
- Semantic
Concept Models
- Information
Domain Models
- Information
Domain Maps
- Metadata
Standards and Frameworks
- Information
Inventories
- Semantic
alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Information
architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
Desirable Skills:
- Experience
with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadata
management solutions.
- Experience
supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.
- Knowledge
of semantic technologies, ontology concepts and knowledge graph
initiatives.
- Experience
with public sector information architecture programs.
- Knowledge
and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies
and practices.
- Knowledge
and understanding of AODA and related standards.
- Ability
to manage competing priorities and tight timelines.
