RQ11571
- Information Architect
- Senior
- Job Opening ID 11801
- City Toronto
- Country Canada
- Number of Positions 1
- Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description

Responsibilities:
- Provide skilled information architecture expertise, andundertake comprehensive architecture needs assessments and complex reviews insupport of systems/infrastructure needs for clients (i.e. I⁢ clusters,their clients and enterprise I⁢ organizations).
- Participate in enterprise-wide and cross-jurisdictionalarchitecture projects with information components. General

Skills:
- Defines, identifies and describes information architecturalrequirements with clients, and obtains I⁢ management approval.
- Develops and obtains approval for detailed plans andresource estimates for large
- scale and complex information architectureprojects and/or components of other projects with information architectureelements.
- Ability to complete complex information architecture reviewsand assessments, development and/or support projects, to support new andchanged enterprise priorities and initiatives, and client clusters’ and theirclients’ information architecture and/or business needs.
- Researches, develops, implements and maintains informationarchitectural policies and standards, as approved by management
- Ensures integration with related corporate and clientcluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in theindustry.
- Provides general and situation-specific informationarchitecture interpretation advice and expertise to other project and/orenterprise level I⁢ project teams, client management and staff, clusterclients, and external contractors.
- Leads and or/participates in highly sensitive informationarchitecture investigations.




- Develops information architecture specifications for RFPsand participates in assessing bids and negotiating contracts/SLAs with serviceproviders and vendors
- Demonstrated experience developing checkpoint deliverablesand creating necessary artefacts for checkpoints
- Knowledge and experience creating information architectureartefacts such as logical and information data models
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Managementprinciples, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarianswith Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards Requirements Experience and Skill Set

Requirements:
Must Haves:
- Defines,identifies and describes information architecture requirements withbusiness and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstratedexperience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experiencedesigning and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Experiencewith Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra or equivalent metadatamanagement solutions.
- Experiencesupporting enterprise data governance initiatives. Nice to have: Prior OPS/public sector exp. Ideal experience with the below:
- ControlledVocabulary Framework
- BusinessGlossary
- InformationDomain Maps
- MetadataStandards and Frameworks




- Semanticalignment of business concepts across participating organizations
- Informationarchitecture artefacts supporting development of common data models Skill Set

Requirements:
General

Skills:
- Defines,identifies and describes information architecture requirements withbusiness and technical stakeholders and obtains appropriate approvals.
- Demonstratedexperience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks,principles, standards and roadmaps.
- Experiencedesigning and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies,business glossaries, classification frameworks and metadata standards.
- Demonstratedexperience establishing common business definitions, controlledvocabularies, business glossaries, semantic models and information domainmodels to support interoperability, information sharing and enterprisedata governance across multiple business domains.
- Experiencedeveloping conceptual information models, information domain maps,controlled vocabularies, business glossaries and semantic structures thatsupport information discovery, interoperability, information sharing andcommon understanding of business concepts across organizationalboundaries.
- Abilityto conduct complex information architecture assessments and reviewssupporting enterprise modernization and digital transformationinitiatives.
- Experienceestablishing metadata standards, metadata models and information assetinventories.
- Experienceresearching, developing and maintaining information architecture policies,standards and best practices.
- Knowledgeof information governance, stewardship and information lifecyclemanagement principles.
- Experiencefacilitating stakeholder workshops to establish common businessterminology, business

📌 11801 (Toronto)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Toronto