11801

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut, Toronto-based information architecture specialist, seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead enterprise-level architecture efforts for client clusters and cross-jurisdictional projects. You will define architectures, develop roadmaps, and ensure compliance with information management policies.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in information governance, metadata standards, and semantic models, with experience in public sector or OPS contexts.

Qualifications

• 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 metadata management solutions such as Purview, Informatica or Collibra.
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional information architecture expertise and undertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews for clients’ systems/infrastructure.
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Skills

Information architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Policy development

Metadata standards

AODA knowledge

Semantics

Governance

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Informatica

Collibra

Job description

RQ11571 - Information Architect - Senior

• Job Opening ID 11801
• City Toronto
• Country Canada
• Number of Positions 1
• Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide professional information architecture expertise, andundertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews insupport of systems/infrastructure needs for clients (i.e. I&IT clusters,their clients and enterprise I&IT organizations).
  
• Participate in enterprise-wide and cross-jurisdictionalarchitecture projects with information components.
  

General Skills:

• Defines, identifies and describes information architecturalrequirements with clients, and obtains I&IT management approval.
  
• Develops and obtains approval for detailed plans andresource estimates for large- scale and complex information architectureprojects and/or components of other projects with information architectureelements.
  
• Ability to complete complex information architecture reviewsand assessments, development and/or support projects, to support new andchanged enterprise priorities and initiatives, and client clusters’ and theirclients’ information architecture and/or business needs.
  
• Researches, develops, implements and maintains informationarchitectural policies and standards, as approved by management
  
• Ensures integration with related corporate and clientcluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in theindustry.
  
• Provides general and situation-specific informationarchitecture interpretation advice and expertise to other project and/orenterprise level I&IT project teams, client management and staff, clusterclients, and external contractors.
  
• Leads and or/participates in highly sensitive informationarchitecture investigations.
  
• Develops information architecture specifications for RFPsand participates in assessing bids and negotiating contracts/SLAs with serviceproviders and vendors
  
• Demonstrated experience developing checkpoint deliverablesand creating necessary artefacts for checkpoints
  
• Knowledge and experience creating information architectureartefacts such as logical and information data models
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Managementprinciples, concepts, policies and practices
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarianswith Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

Requirements

Experience 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
• InformationDomain Maps
• MetadataStandards and Frameworks
• 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
• InformationDomain Maps
• MetadataStandards and Frameworks
• Semanticalignment of business concepts across participating organizations
• Informationarchitecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
• 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.