Note: This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid", working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment, you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.

Must haves:

• Proven experience and expertise with the development of Business Architecture artifacts for PaaS solutions utilizing PowerApps and SharePoint
• Successfully completed business architecture deliverables in government settings or similar large IT organization
• At least 10 years of experience in reviewing, collaborating and creating Architectural artifacts (like Solution Requirement Document, Business Architecture Document. Information Architecture Document, Solution Architecture Document)

Description

Scope

• Manage the planning, design, delivery, and implementation of architecture solutions for large, complex I&IT projects to meet critical business requirements of ministry clients and affect external stakeholders.
• Develop architectural artifacts, conduct reviews, and perform assessments to support the creation of ministry or enterprise-wide architectures, reference models, and I&IT projects.
• Collaborate with clients to develop secure application architectures for complex, high-availability, high-integrity, and high-confidentiality applications, typical in Justice applications.

Assignment Deliverables

• Develop/review business architecture artifacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture Federated Framework and ensures that these are integrated.
• Create, review, provide input, and support of Enterprise Architecture artifacts for all corporate or cluster checkpoints as required
• Create architecture documents such as data models (Conceptual/Logical/Physical) including integration of applications and information as required.
• Business models at enterprise and/or core business levels - Design capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources
• Develop and maintain architectural controls that are in alignment and adherence to Ministry of Government Services' processes and standards
• Review standards and document business process flows, business logic, code dependencies, etc.
• Perform required analysis - business requirements, prepare functional/non-functional specifications & detail designs
• Create use cases and process flows; ensure alignment with the program area and associated business architecture, as well as traceability to solution logical and physical architectures.
• Consults with appropriate teams on specific business architecture elements and conducts focused group meetings to meet the deliverables.
• Participate in Knowledge transfer

A Note on the VOR Master Service Agreement:

• The VOR Master Service Agreement which expires on April 5, 2025, leaves some Contracts with funding unassigned for fiscal 2025-26. If the current statement of work expires on March 31, 2025, the remaining funds can be used to exercise an option to extend the SOW beyond March 31, 2025, based on business case approvals. Such extensions will be allowable, only if the Master Service Agreement is extended beyond April 5, 2025, and be upon the same terms, conditions, and covenants contained in the SOW.
• The start date is subject to change based on security clearances and contract signing timelines.

Experience and Skillset Requirements

Desired Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for enterprise architecture deliverables such as, but not limited to: business functional modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping and other related disciplines
• Experience in converting client requirements and functional/non-functional specifications to architectural design artifacts with effort estimation
• Expertise in generating Entity relationship diagrams to describe the relation between different entities.
• Experience in modeling the business at the enterprise and/or core business levels for transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of life cycle methodologies for systems/software development for business applications and systems specifications design; software design, development, and integration; user interface design principles; database concepts; data and information architecture.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and, decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 40 Points

• At least 12 years' experience in the creation of architecture documents (like business requirements, data models, functional/technical design)
• Ability to capture data and information needed to document, validate and analyze business processes of existing legacy systems and map them to the future state processes
• Experience in the use of business architecture and modeling software such as Power Designer, Enterprise Architecture

Criteria 2: Technical Experience - 30 Points

• Experience in design and architecture especially for PaaS applications, preferred PowerApps and SharePoint, experience with cloud technologies
• Experience in leading teams to ensure all architectural artifacts are completed for all phases and aspects of a large-scale integrated projects
• Experience developing architecture artifacts for OPS/large IT organization architecture checkpoints and gating

Criteria 3: Communication Skills - 25 Points

• Proven ability to support the client in development of presentation materials and presenting to the wider audience
• Hands on experience in working with business stakeholders, internal project team, and vendors.
• Oral and written communication skills, interpersonal and consultative skills

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points

• Experience in working with Architectural artifacts within the OPS would be an asset