We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Architect to lead the transformation and modernization of enterprise information systems and data analytics platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for defining target business outcomes, mapping business capabilities, optimizing complex processes, and developing formal Enterprise Architectur
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e deliverables. Working alongside cross-functional project teams—including solution designers, product managers, data architects, and business analysts—you will lead governance checkpoint engagements, establish business architecture controls, and ensure vertical and horizontal integration across solution requirements, information frameworks, and corporate strategies.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 11-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Modernization Leadership: Lead business architecture for complex enterprise cloud platforms, centralized storage, and data analytics ecosystems.
High-Level Governance Oversight: Direct project teams through formal enterprise architecture review boards and governance frameworks.
Cross-Functional Executive Influence: Partner directly with senior leaders, solution architects, service designers, and product owners.
Dedicated Onsite Collaboration: Drive strategic alignment in a focused 5-day per week onsite workspace in Toronto.
Responsibilities
Business Architecture & Capability Modeling: Design capability models, map functional capabilities to enterprise resources, perform value chain analyses, and model business functions, accountabilities, and processes using BPMN standards.
Enterprise Governance & Alignment: Lead project teams through formal architecture governance processes, developing and maintaining architectural controls, governance blueprints, and checkpoint artifacts.
Document & Artifact Development: Author comprehensive Business Architecture Documentation (BAD) and ensure vertical alignment with Solution Requirements Documents (SRD) and Information Architecture Documents (IAD).
Business Transformation & Strategy: Collaborate with executive leads and senior managers to translate strategic corporate objectives into tactical business transformation blueprints, target business outcomes, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Stakeholder Consultation & Workshops: Facilitate focus groups, co-design workshops, and alignment sessions with business leads, subject matter experts, and cross-functional technical teams.
Integration & Service Design: Align business architecture frameworks with service design practices, identifying common integration elements and delineation points across project portfolios.
Requirements Elicitation Support: Ensure business architecture models directly inform, validate, and support the elicitation of functional, technical, and operational system requirements.
Procurement & Governance Support: Provide expert guidance and architectural review support for procurement activities, service acquisitions, and vendor solution evaluations.
Qualifications
Enterprise Architecture Experience: 10+ years of total IT experience with at least 5 years dedicated to delivering Business Architecture for large, complex enterprise initiatives (Strictly Required).
Formal Methodology Expertise: Proven experience developing business architectures using formal government or enterprise framework standards (such as GO-ITS) (Strictly Required).
Business Architecture Documentation (BAD): Extensive experience authoring formal Business Architecture Documentation and ensuring vertical integration with Solution Requirements (SRD) and Information Architecture (IAD) (Strictly Required).
Process & Capability Modeling: Demonstrated mastery in business capability mapping, business function modeling, value chain analysis, and BPMN process modeling (Strictly Required).
Stakeholder Facilitation & Governance: Proven track record facilitating workshops, collaborating with executive management, and guiding projects through formal architecture governance review boards (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Knowledge of the Zachman Framework, SAFe Methodology, or Enterprise Architecture modeling tools (e.g., PowerDesigner, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus).
Experience in adjacent architectural domains such as Information Architecture, Data Architecture, or Application Architecture.
Familiarity with Digital Service Standards, Service Design practices, and web accessibility standards (AODA/WCAG).
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 an experienced Senior Business Architect to lead the transformation and modernization of enterprise information systems and data analytics platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for defining target business outcomes, mapping business capabilities, optimizing complex processes, and developing formal Enterprise Architecture deliverables. Working alongside cross-functional project teams—including solution designers, product managers, data architects, and business analysts—you will lead governance checkpoint engagements, establish business architecture controls, and ensure vertical and horizontal integration across solution requirements, information frameworks, and corporate strategies.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 11-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Modernization Leadership: Lead business architecture for complex enterprise cloud platforms, centralized storage, and data analytics ecosystems.
High-Level Governance Oversight: Direct project teams through formal enterprise architecture review boards and governance frameworks.
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Cross-Functional Executive Influence: Partner directly with senior leaders, solution architects, service designers, and product owners.
Dedicated Onsite Collaboration: Drive strategic alignment in a focused 5-day per week onsite workspace in Toronto.
Responsibilities
Business Architecture & Capability Modeling: Design capability models, map functional capabilities to enterprise resources, perform value chain analyses, and model business functions, accountabilities, and processes using BPMN standards.
Enterprise Governance & Alignment: Lead project teams through formal architecture governance processes, developing and maintaining architectural controls, governance blueprints, and checkpoint artifacts.
Document & Artifact Development: Author comprehensive Business Architecture Documentation (BAD) and ensure vertical alignment with Solution Requirements Documents (SRD) and Information Architecture Documents (IAD).
Business Transformation & Strategy: Collaborate with executive leads and senior managers to translate strategic corporate objectives into tactical business transformation blueprints, target business outcomes, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Stakeholder Consultation & Workshops: Facilitate focus groups, co-design workshops, and alignment sessions with business leads, subject matter experts, and cross-functional technical teams.
Integration & Service Design: Align business architecture frameworks with service design practices, identifying common integration elements and delineation points across project portfolios.
Requirements Elicitation Support: Ensure business architecture models directly inform, validate, and support the elicitation of functional, technical, and operational system requirements.
Procurement & Governance Support: Provide expert guidance and architectural review support for procurement activities, service acquisitions, and vendor solution evaluations.
Qualifications
Enterprise Architecture Experience: 10+ years of total IT experience with at least 5 years dedicated to delivering Business Architecture for large, complex enterprise initiatives (Strictly Required).
Formal Methodology Expertise: Proven experience developing business architectures using formal government or enterprise framework standards (such as GO-ITS) (Strictly Required).
Business Architecture Documentation (BAD): Extensive experience authoring formal Business Architecture Documentation and ensuring vertical integration with Solution Requirements (SRD) and Information Architecture (IAD) (Strictly Required).
Process & Capability Modeling: Demonstrated mastery in business capability mapping, business function modeling, value chain analysis, and BPMN process modeling (Strictly Required).
Stakeholder Facilitation & Governance: Proven track record facilitating workshops, collaborating with executive management, and guiding projects through formal architecture governance review boards (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Knowledge of the Zachman Framework, SAFe Methodology, or Enterprise Architecture modeling tools (e.g., PowerDesigner, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus).
Experience in adjacent architectural domains such as Information Architecture, Data Architecture, or Application Architecture.
Familiarity with Digital Service Standards, Service Design practices, and web accessibility standards (AODA/WCAG).
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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