RQ11571 - Information Architect - Senior

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

Job Description

Responsibilities:

- Provide skilled information architecture expertise, and undertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews in support of systems/infrastructure needs for clients (i.e. I⁢ clusters, their clients and enterprise I⁢ organizations).

- Participate in enterprise-wide and cross-jurisdictional architecture projects with information components.

General Skills:

- Defines, identifies and describes information architectural requirements with clients, and obtains I⁢ management approval.

- Develops and obtains approval for detailed plans and resource estimates for large- scale and complex information architecture projects and/or components of other projects with information architecture elements.

- Ability to complete complex information architecture reviews and assessments, development and/or support projects, to support new and changed enterprise priorities and initiatives, and client clusters’ and their clients’ information architecture and/or business needs.

- Researches, develops, implements and maintains information architectural policies and standards, as approved by management

- Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.

- Provides general and situation-specific information architecture interpretation advice and expertise to other project and/or enterprise level I⁢ project teams, client management and staff, cluster clients, and external contractors.

- Leads and or/participates in highly sensitive information architecture investigations.

- Develops information architecture specifications for RFPs and participates in assessing bids and negotiating contracts/SLAs with service providers and vendors

- Demonstrated experience developing checkpoint deliverables and creating necessary artefacts for checkpoints

- Knowledge and experience creating information architecture artefacts such as logical and information data models

- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

- Defines, identifies and describes information architecture requirements with business and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.

- Demonstrated experience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks, principles, standards and roadmaps.

- Experience designing and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.

- Experience with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadata management solutions.

- Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.

Prior OPS/public sector exp.

Ideal experience with the below:

- Controlled Vocabulary Framework
- Business Glossary
- Semantic Concept Models
- Information Domain Maps
- Metadata Standards and Frameworks
- Semantic alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Information architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models

Nice to have:

Resource will support the following deliverables:

- Controlled Vocabulary Framework
- Business Glossary
- Semantic Concept Models
- Information Domain Maps
- Metadata Standards and Frameworks
- Semantic alignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Information architecture artefacts supporting development of common data models
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadata management solutions.

- Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.

- Knowledge of semantic technologies, ontology concepts and knowledge graph initiatives.

- Experience with public sector information architecture programs.

- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.

- Knowledge and understanding of AODA and related standards.

- Ability to manage competing priorities and tight timelines.

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