Business Architect - TEMPORARY position, up to one year

What can I expect to do in this role?

The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Ontario Provincial Police, and the Commander of Business Management Bureau is seeking a qualified candidate to provide professional business architecture expertise, and undertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews in support of systems/infrastructure needs for OPP clients across the organization; to prepare and advise on business architecture policies, standards, processes and controls; and to participate in enterprise-wide and cross-jurisdictional architecture projects with business components.

How do I qualify?

Mandatory:

Ability to pass an OPP background security investigation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Business and information architecture, IT strategies, policies, current and emerging enterprise architecture principles, methodologies, mechanisms and techniques, to define, analyze, develop and implement IT architecture policies, standards, tools and techniques.

Industry standards to provide state of the art advice, including systems analysis, design, development, testing and implementation methods, tools and techniques.

Applying leading industry and organization-wide best practices and standards in architecture, software and systems engineering, design and development tools and techniques, and software lifecycle methodologies to provide timely delivery of projects and subject matter expertise to development teams across the OPP.

Knowledge of business process modelling, data modelling, and/or information resource management, business analysis, design and process re-engineering to lead analysis and systems solutions.

Consultation, collaboration and facilitation skills to consult with multiple stakeholders and clients to advise members on technical issues, facilitate discussions among stakeholders with different interests and encourage participation in the systems design process.

Persuasion and negotiating skills to establish effective working relationships, obtain buy-in for systems development, promote systems to senior management and stakeholders and provide advice and recommendations to management/staff regarding most effective architecture system strategies.

Develop architectural solutions to meet complex, multi-year plans, spanning multiple stakeholders and broadly defined business objectives.

Resolve significant integration and technical issues to address multiple systems/applications linkages, interdependencies and impacts where requirements are not initially clear; to research and recommend innovative systems architecture alternatives and integration strategies; and to plan and coordinate all phases of complex systems architecture.

Develop appropriate performance measures that are adaptive and responsive to address the continuous introduction of new and emerging technologies, use of unfamiliar or unproven technology, broadly defined or undefined business and systems requirements.

How to Apply:

Resume / cover letter must be received no later than 11:59 pm on 15-May-2018. Submit quoting WIN ID # (if applicable) and file # 18-061 showing how your qualifications, training and experience relate to the position to: Marissa McKay.

Email: IMS.Recruitment@OPP.CA

Only those applicants selected for interview will be contacted.

The OPP is an equal opportunity employer, and will accommodate your needs under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Collection of Information

Your personal information is being collected and will be used to determine your qualifications for employment with the Ontario Public Service, and for recruitment modernization initiatives. OPS Careers is an authorized common service in accordance with s. 6 of the Ministry of Government Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.25 and this collection of personal information is necessary to the proper administration of OPS Careers.

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All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Monday, May 14, 2018 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.