Job Description

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A rapidly growing fintech company based out of downtown Toronto, is looking for someone to assist in their continued, large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.

What\'s in it for you?

Join a team in expansion mode with an award-winning platform in an industry sector that is experiencing rapid change. Features include a dynamic team and working environment that provides ongoing support with frequent companywide social events and a fully stocked kitchen.

Responsibilities:

Business Architecture:

• Support the development of a Business Architecture strategy, capabilities, and practice in alignment with the company\'s Enterprise Architecture strategy and build engagement within the company\'s portfolio and various COE.
• Support the development of a structured business architecture approach, methodology and toolbox for capturing the key views of the enterprise including (but not limited to) business-outcome-statements, strategy on a page, business capability modeling, value-streams mapping, process and ecosystems modeling
• Contribute to development, maintenance, and publishing of Enterprise Architecture-related strategies, blueprints, policies, standards, plans and guidelines
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to deliver wholistic solution architectures for products and solutions. Take ownership of developing and maintaining of contextual, conceptual, and business architecture artifacts for solutions within an evolving ecosystem
• Contribute to development of product and technology strategies and roadmaps that are customer focused, aligned with strategic direction, and driven by business outcomes
• Provide an enterprise approach to integrating and streamlining processes and technologies to maximize value and minimize impact across the organization
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices for business architecture, business strategy and IT trends

Strategy and Planning:

• Participate in the development of the company\'s Strategy and capture the strategic and tactical goals through various business models (including vision, goals, objectives, mission, tactics, roadmaps, plans, capability maps, value streams)
• Support the build and maintenance of the portfolio\'s operating model (including capabilities, functions, services, partners, customers, org design etc.) and its continuous evolution to align with strategic direction
• Facilitate business leaders and cross functional teams in the development, maintenance and evolution of the organization and portfolio business capability roadmap that demonstrates how current and future business models will drive IT needs. Deliverables include (but not limited to): Capability models, maturity and impact assessments and roadmaps
• Engage key business stakeholders to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business strategy

Strategic Relationship Management:

• Facilitate interaction with business leaders, product managers, and product owners in business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of product decisions to the line of business, business unit, and greater enterprise
• Build strong relationships across portfolios and with a diverse set of the company\'s system stakeholders and partners
• Develop knowledge and understanding of customer needs and objectives to effectively support new business/partnership opportunities

Must Have:

• An undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or related field or equivalent working experience, is mandatory.
• Five+ years of overall working experience, with two or more recent years focused on Business Architecture in Enterprise Architecture practice.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and translate strategic, tactical and operational business requirements into conceptual and business architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and apply frameworks for complex problem solving.
• Demonstrated experience of developing business architecture models such as BPMN 2.0, data flow diagrams, information models, business functional model, UML, Capability maps, business-outcome-statements, strategy on a page, value-streams mapping, process, and ecosystems modeling.
• Excellent knowledge of the business architecture practice and applicable industry experience in implementing solutions for finance and/or Information Management.
• Self-driven, hands-on & results-oriented to perform in a matrix environment
• Solid conceptual and analytical problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs, and evaluate opportunistic innovative ideas with internal and external partners.
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to convey complex and/or ambiguous business problem in a clear and simple way that is understood by the diverse audience.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating, collaborating, and communicating with small and large groups.
• Outstanding stakeholder and customer relationship management abilities.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of Architecture frameworks (such as Zachman, TOGAF) and applicability to the financial sector.
• Knowledge of other frameworks such as ITIL, PMBOK, COBIT, security and privacy standards and principles applicable to the financial sector is an asset
• Knowledge of Archimate is an asset.
• Knowledge of LeanIX is an asset.
• Fluent English level.

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