MUST HAVES:

• 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
• Design application landscapes and integration strategies, ensuring seamless data and process flow between systems from local and global target state viewpoints.

Description

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
• Design application landscapes and integration strategies, ensuring seamless data and process flow between systems from local and global target state viewpoints.

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.
• Experience with application lifecycle management and system interoperability.
• Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, trends and directions, both technologically and within provincial health domain
• Experience and expert knowledge of application and integration architecture standards and technologies, such as FHIR, while being able to astutely navigate information sensitivity and ownership with health landscape.
• Support business architecture initiatives by aligning information and application design to business goals.
• Provides general and situation-specific information / application-integration 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 business, information, and application-integration architecture investigations.
• Strong familiarity with composable architecture, microservices, and API, middleware, and integration platform technologies.
• Experience in developing information and application-integration architecture deliverables (e.g. frameworks, models, patterns, processes, governance, playbooks)

Desirable Skills:

• 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
• Experience in developing business architecture deliverables (e.g. models, presentations) based on TOGAF, Zachman, etc..
• Strong familiarity with business process modeling and understanding of core business domains.
• Expertise in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

NOTE

• Extension/Amendment Attestation: Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond the maximum contract value and any extension options included in the original SOW.
• Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Hybrid" as consultants will be required to work onsite at the work location 3 days a week and 2 days from home.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Information & Integration Architecture Experience - 50%

• 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
• Design application landscapes and integration strategies, ensuring seamless data and process flow between systems from local and global target state viewpoints.
• Breadth and depth of relevant career experience.
• Breadth and depth of public sector and/or health sectors.

General Skills and Experience - 30%

• 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.
• Experience with application lifecycle management and system interoperability.
• Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, trends and directions, both technologically and within provincial health domain
• Experience and expert knowledge of application and integration architecture standards and technologies, such as FHIR, while being able to astutely navigate information sensitivity and ownership with health landscape.
• Support business architecture initiatives by aligning information and application design to business goals.
• Provides general and situation-specific information / application-integration 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 business, information, and application-integration architecture investigations.
• Strong familiarity with composable architecture, microservices, and API, middleware, and integration platform technologies.
• Experience in developing information and application-integration architecture deliverables (e.g. frameworks, models, patterns, processes, governance, playbooks)

Desirable Skills - 20%

• 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
• Experience in developing business architecture deliverables (e.g. models, presentations) based on TOGAF, Zachman, etc.
• Strong familiarity with business process modeling and understanding of core business domains.
• Expertise in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices