Job Description

Overview:

The

Office of the Registrar General (ORG)

is transforming how vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) are managed in Ontario. As part of this modernization, ORG seeks a

Business Architect

to help design and align future-state business capabilities with cutting-edge technologies, ensuring a seamless, efficient, and secure service experience for Ontarians.

The Business Architect will play a critical role in the replacement and consolidation of legacy case management solutions. Working within a cross-functional service transformation team, the Architect will guide business design decisions, enable strategic alignment, and support the consolidation or retirement of outdated applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead business architecture efforts to support the transformation of vital event registration systems. Analyze current business processes and propose optimized, scalable, and integrated future-state models. Align architectural design with Ontario Public Service (OPS) standards, strategic goals, and enterprise IT systems. Collaborate with Product Managers, IT Architects, Portfolio Managers, and government stakeholders to define, document, and validate business needs and solutions. Develop and maintain business capability models and transformation roadmaps. Design conceptual and logical data models and ensure vertical integration with IT and information architecture deliverables. Contribute to governance processes including architectural reviews and compliance with AGP1 and GO-ITS standards.

Required Experience and Skills:

Business Architecture

IT experience

, including as a Business Architect on large, complex public sector or enterprise projects. Proven expertise in completing business architecture engagements for core or enterprise-level initiatives. Strong knowledge of business capability modeling, data modeling, and business transformation planning.

Business Architecture Design

Experience with business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, BPMN, value chain analysis, and KPI development. Ability to translate business needs into architecture blueprints that inform solution and requirements design. Familiarity with aligning business processes with service design and digital service standards.

Artifact Development

Creation of business architecture documentation (BAD) aligned with Solution Requirements Documents (SRDs) and Information Architecture Documents (IADs). Ability to align OPS standards and best practices into business architecture artifacts.

Architecture Alignment

Experience aligning acquired solutions or services with existing IT product strategies.

Interpersonal & Communication Skills

Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, consensus-building, and facilitation skills. Experience working with senior executives and multi-disciplinary teams.

Frameworks and Standards

Experience with

Zachman Framework

,

OPS Enterprise Architecture

, and

GO-ITS

standards. Knowledge of AODA, Privacy, and Records Management principles as they apply to architecture.

Desirable Assets:

Experience working with Salesforce, DevOps environments, Miro Boards, and Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Visio). Familiarity with service design lifecycle stages (Pre-Discovery, Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live). Experience developing epics, features, and user stories, and managing product backlogs. Knowledge of enterprise modeling tools such as Sparx EA, PowerDesigner, and Orbus iServer. Demonstrated success in stakeholder engagement and business architecture for acquired solutions.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: From $85.00 per hour

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Application question(s):

How many years of total IT experience do you have? How many years have you worked as a Business Architect on large, complex projects? How many years of experience do you have in horizontal business integration? How many years of experience do you have developing Conceptual and Logical Models, including Data Models? Do you have experience designing optimized future-state business models? If yes, how many years?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON

Application deadline: 2025-07-03
Expected start date: 2025-07-14