RQ11571 - Information Architect - Senior

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a Senior Information Architect in Toronto, Ontario. You will provide expertise in information architecture, conduct assessments, and support enterprise I&T initiatives with metadata standards and governance.

Responsibilities include developing IA artefacts, taxonomies, data models, and governance artifacts; leveraging Purview, Informatica and Collibra; and ensuring accessibility and policy compliance in delivery.

Qualifications

• Defines, identifies and describes information architecture requirements with business and technical stakeholders and obtains approvals.
• Develops enterprise information architecture frameworks, principles, standards and roadmaps.
• Designs enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
• Experience with metadata management solutions (Purview/Informatica/Collibra).
• Supports enterprise data governance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide information architecture expertise for clients and enterprise I&T projects.
• Lead architecture reviews and develop artefacts for checkpoints and bids.
• Create information architecture artefacts like data models and domain maps.
• Ensure policies/standards alignment with industry best practices.
• Collaborate with project teams and external vendors.

Skills

IA frameworks

Stakeholder collaboration

Policy compliance

Information modelling

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Informatica

Collibra

Job description

RQ11571 - Information Architect - Senior

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

Job 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.
  

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
  
• 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.
  

Prior OPS/public sector exp.

Ideal experience with the below:

• Controlled Vocabulary Framework
• Business Glossary
• Semantic Concept Models
• Information Domain Maps
• Metadata Standards and Frameworks
• Semantic alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
• Information architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models

Nice to have:

Resource will support the following deliverables:

• Controlled Vocabulary Framework
• Business Glossary
• Semantic Concept Models
• Information Domain Maps
• Metadata Standards and Frameworks
• Semantic alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
• Information architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
• 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.