Job Description :

AMANST Inc. is looking for Senior Business Architect for a contract opportunity with Ontario Government.

 

Estimated Business Days: 200 days

 

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership, guidance and support to the project team and subject matter experts on business analysis and business architecture
• Leads the elicitation, elaboration, analysis and validation of business requirements and data needs
• Applies expert level business analysis and architectural skills to document detailed user stories
• Plans and facilitates workshops to gather requirements and create user stories and artefacts
• Provide support during the design, implementation and testing phases of the project
• Supports the product manager and product owner to refine and groom the product backlog
• Leads the identification and mapping of business needs and requirements to assess solution options or improvements
• Works with the developers to align business requirements with solution capabilities
• Report progress on deliverables on a regular basis at stand-ups, and other team meetings as required
• Proactively raise risks/issues and propose mitigation strategies
• Conduct feasibility analysis, scoping and provide work estimates on user stories
• Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions
• Conducts fit/gap analysis between business needs and solution capabilities
• Documents process patterns to support client onboarding
• Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state
• Review and provide feedback of technical design documents
• Conducts product walkthroughs / demonstrations at the end of each sprint cycle
• Facilitate and produce Sprint artefacts as required
• Ensures alignment to OPS standards, directives and policies (i.e. Ontario Digital Service, Enterprise Architecture, Record Keeping, Archiving and Privacy, Security, Accessibility)

 

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

 

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

 

Business Analysis and Architecture – 40%

• Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates
• Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience capturing business requirements, conducting business process re-engineering, business design and optimization; identification of and alignment to business goals, as well as business performance measures
• Demonstrated experience conducting fit/gap analysis between business needs and solution functionality
• Expert knowledge/experience decomposing high level business needs into detailed business requirements and/or user stories
• Expert knowledge/experience creating business architecture artefacts, process patterns and/or reference architecture
• Expert knowledge/experience creating business process maps/diagrams
• Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements, System Requirements Specifications, Business requirements / rules, Business Process Models, Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical), Risks and Issues, Business and System Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrices, Status Reports, Test Plan / Strategies, Test Cases etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements
• Demonstrated ability in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates
• Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
• Ability to write high quality business cases, working with corporate governance bodies and navigating approvals

 

Technical Skills - 25%

• Proven experience in investigating, analyzing and estimating system applications in large integrated complex environments
• Experience with all stages of system implementation in complex solutions
• Demonstrated experience with implementation of business solutions using Commercial off the Shelf solution implementations such as Oracle Siebel based systems
• Ability to document requirements using story boarding utilizing tools such as Jira
• Experience with prototyping tools to deliver high quality prototypes and mock-ups
• Experience with business process mapping tools such as Visio

 

Soft Skills - 30%

• Experience with agile
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
• Proven experience coaching and leading project team resources
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated consensus building skills

 

Public Sector Experience – 5%

• Experience with Public Sector I&IT Solutions architecture, application design, quality assurance standards, project delivery methodologies, and practices
• Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while developing cross cluster, multi-year business solutions including knowledge of Commercial off the Shelf product implementations with third party vendors
• Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
• Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
• Knowledge of Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act to support OPS’ Digital First Strategy with user centric designs; familiarity with Digital Service Standards and Service Design Playbook