We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Business Architect to lead the technical and strategic design of a comprehensive Data & Analytics Operating Model. In this role, you will hold complete architectural ownership over the creation of enterprise-level business architectures, end-to-end operational processes, and structural accountability matrices that instantiate a product-management approach to data and analytics. Operating with minimal direction, you will collaborate with senior executives to map capability models, design organizational blueprints, and establish architectural governance controls to align long-term strategy with tactical delivery demands.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Duration: 6-month contract
Public Sector Experience: Preferred
Advantages
Principal Design Authority: Lead the structural blueprinting of an enterprise-tier data and analytics engine from the ground up.
Product-Centric Innovation: Pioneer a product-management methodology within a complex, multi-client public data landscape.
High-Executive Visibility: Shape target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps directly alongside senior management and strategic leaders.
Flexible Hybrid Balance: Enjoy an adaptable scheduling split that combines real-time team collaboration with remote delivery autonomy.
Responsibilities
Operating Model Architecture: Lead the development of the Data & Analytics Operating Model, defining end-to-end process maps and granular Responsibility Assignment Matrices (RACI) across the data pipeline.
Pipeline Infrastructure Mapping: Structure and formalize the intake-to-delivery pipeline, specifying clear checkpoints for intake, triage, prioritization, and solution delivery frameworks.
Capability Gap Assessments: Analyze enterprise organizational capabilities against the target operating model to isolate functional gaps, recommending solution architectures and transformation roadmaps to close them.
Governance Framework Engineering: Establish and maintain robust architectural governance and implementation controls, producing formalized design artifacts suitable for executive review and sign-off.
Enterprise Blueprint Modeling: Model the organization at both the enterprise and core-business levels, building vertically integrated artifacts in compliance with federated information architecture frameworks.
IT-Enabled Opportunity Integration: Evaluate emerging information technology trends to integrate and identify automated, IT-enabled opportunities to solve pressing business workflow constraints.
Stakeholder Workshop Facilitation: Plan, lead, and conduct structured focus groups and design workshops to elicit, validate, and document business architectures among multi-client stakeholder environments.
Strategic & Operational Planning: Contribute to corporate strategic planning, translating high-level business objectives into clear technical and functional requirement blueprints that promote a shared organizational understanding.
Qualifications
Core Business Architecture Seniority: 10+ years of progressive professional experience successfully modeling business structures at the enterprise or core-business level for medium to large organizations.
Methodological Framework Mastery: Proven hands-on expertise utilizing a wide range of business architecture tools, including functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, event modeling, process mapping, and value chain analysis (Strictly Required).
Complex Ecosystem Delivery: Demonstrated track record of completing end-to-end business architectures inside government settings or similar multi-project / multi-client organizations (Strictly Required).
Strategic Analysis & Requirements Engineering: Expert capability to identify, validate, and analyze complex business requirements and translate them into actionable tactical demands (Strictly Required).
IT Infrastructure Literacy: Sound knowledge of information technology parameters, with a verified ability to identify and integrate IT-enabled opportunities within data ecosystems (Strictly Required).
Enterprise Architecture Standard Knowledge: Solid understanding of industry-standard frameworks, such as the Zachman Framework (encompassing business, information, application, technology, and security architecture layers).
Soft Skills: Superior consultation, facilitation, consensus-building, and negotiation mechanics, with an established history of delivering independent technical advisory support.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional experience building enterprise architecture deliverables based on specific regional government architecture processes and practice playbooks.
Functional understanding of information management strategy, data utility frameworks, and digital inclusion standards (such as AODA).
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Business Architect" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Business Architect to lead the technical and strategic design of a comprehensive Data & Analytics Operating Model. In this role, you will hold complete architectural ownership over the creation of enterprise-level business architectures, end-to-end operational processes, and structural accountability matrices that instantiate a product-management approach to data and analytics. Operating with minimal direction, you will collaborate with senior executives to map capability models, design organizational blueprints, and establish architectural governance controls to align long-term strategy with tactical delivery demands.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Duration: 6-month contract
Public Sector Experience: Preferred
Advantages
Principal Design Authority: Lead the structural blueprinting of an enterprise-tier data and analytics engine from the ground up.
Product-Centric Innovation: Pioneer a product-management methodology within a complex, multi-client public data landscape.
High-Executive Visibility: Shape target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps directly alongside senior management and strategic leaders.
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Flexible Hybrid Balance: Enjoy an adaptable scheduling split that combines real-time team collaboration with remote delivery autonomy.
Responsibilities
Operating Model Architecture: Lead the development of the Data & Analytics Operating Model, defining end-to-end process maps and granular Responsibility Assignment Matrices (RACI) across the data pipeline.
Pipeline Infrastructure Mapping: Structure and formalize the intake-to-delivery pipeline, specifying clear checkpoints for intake, triage, prioritization, and solution delivery frameworks.
Capability Gap Assessments: Analyze enterprise organizational capabilities against the target operating model to isolate functional gaps, recommending solution architectures and transformation roadmaps to close them.
Governance Framework Engineering: Establish and maintain robust architectural governance and implementation controls, producing formalized design artifacts suitable for executive review and sign-off.
Enterprise Blueprint Modeling: Model the organization at both the enterprise and core-business levels, building vertically integrated artifacts in compliance with federated information architecture frameworks.
IT-Enabled Opportunity Integration: Evaluate emerging information technology trends to integrate and identify automated, IT-enabled opportunities to solve pressing business workflow constraints.
Stakeholder Workshop Facilitation: Plan, lead, and conduct structured focus groups and design workshops to elicit, validate, and document business architectures among multi-client stakeholder environments.
Strategic & Operational Planning: Contribute to corporate strategic planning, translating high-level business objectives into clear technical and functional requirement blueprints that promote a shared organizational understanding.
Qualifications
Core Business Architecture Seniority: 10+ years of progressive professional experience successfully modeling business structures at the enterprise or core-business level for medium to large organizations.
Methodological Framework Mastery: Proven hands-on expertise utilizing a wide range of business architecture tools, including functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, event modeling, process mapping, and value chain analysis (Strictly Required).
Complex Ecosystem Delivery: Demonstrated track record of completing end-to-end business architectures inside government settings or similar multi-project / multi-client organizations (Strictly Required).
Strategic Analysis & Requirements Engineering: Expert capability to identify, validate, and analyze complex business requirements and translate them into actionable tactical demands (Strictly Required).
IT Infrastructure Literacy: Sound knowledge of information technology parameters, with a verified ability to identify and integrate IT-enabled opportunities within data ecosystems (Strictly Required).
Enterprise Architecture Standard Knowledge: Solid understanding of industry-standard frameworks, such as the Zachman Framework (encompassing business, information, application, technology, and security architecture layers).
Soft Skills: Superior consultation, facilitation, consensus-building, and negotiation mechanics, with an established history of delivering independent technical advisory support.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional experience building enterprise architecture deliverables based on specific regional government architecture processes and practice playbooks.
Functional understanding of information management strategy, data utility frameworks, and digital inclusion standards (such as AODA).
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Business Architect" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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