Architect

Job Description Description: • The Client?s and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) require a Business Architect to support the enhancement of the Forest Resources Inventory Information Management System (FRI IMS) and update its Enterprise Architecture (EA). The Business Architect will assess business capabilities, define target business outcomes, optimize business processes, and develop key EA deliverables required for governance approvals. • The role will support the modernization of FRI IMS, including the implementation of centralized data storage using Databricks and Azure Storage, public-facing data exchange capabilities, and a cloud-based data processing and analytics platform. The Business Architect will lead the development of business architecture artifacts and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and governance requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Responsibilities: • Analyzes government information pertinent to business architecture, consults with appropriate government contacts on specific business architecture elements and conducts focus group workshops. • Develops and maintains business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans. • Develops/revises business architecture artefacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Federated Framework and ensures that these are vertically integrated • Models business at enterprise and/or core business levels. This also includes: • Design of capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources, • Developing business transformation plans jointly with senior business management, • Handling business solutions to the delivery and operational business functions of the company • Developing and maintaining architectural governance and controls over implementation • For each step of the business transformation plan, business architects contribute in development of a blueprint of the enterprise in order to promote a common understanding of the organization and alignment of strategic objectives with tactical demands. The project teams consist of you, a Sr. IT Business Architect (lead), project leads, product manager, solution designer, service designer, QA tester, business analysts, subject matter experts and other project team members. The