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IT Architect Specialist (Business Architecture)
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Dunsmuir 09
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 127,900.00 - 161,800.00
Position Highlights
The Business Architect will join the Enterprise Architecture team which is part of BC Hydro Technology; partnering with key
business and technology stakeholders to produce strategies, roadmaps, plans, reference architectures, solution blueprints &
designs to help guide technology investments and deliver quality, secure solutions that align to business goals and
objectives.
The Business Architect will provide services that:
- Strategically guide the design and realization of business and operating models
- Identify and guide people, processes and technology requirements to operationalize the operating models
- Support organizational change and investments in response to disruptive forces and toward achieving targeted business
outcomes
- Create Business Architecture deliverables that clarify strategic intentions, identify business outcomes, explore implications,
impacts and risks
- Help leaders understand, apply and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize
business and operating models
- Support the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture teams’ services and help define the strategy for the EA discipline.
- Align business and IT.
To deliver these services, the Business Architect builds strong relationships with business and IT leaders. This role also
leads and mentors solution architects, SMEs and delivery teams assigned to various initiatives to ensure efficient execution
of business imperatives and alignment to technology standards.
What you'll do
- Responsible for Business Architecture, including Business Process Re-engineering; working with key stakeholders to
define a strategic plan for leveraging Business Architecture as part of the organization’s overall enterprise architecture.
- Establishes Business Architecture Center of Excellence including methodology, guiding principles, standards, systems
and processes.
- Establishes and executes appropriate governance, ensuring that Business Architecture is a primary input to the
development of other EA viewpoints such as solutions, information and technical architecture.
- Participates in the EA governance and assurance process to identify business, information, and solution architecture
issues at the front end of the project life cycle, and at the different stages of the product and project lifecycle.
- Works in collaboration with stakeholders to support and advise on business process related activities / initiatives / projects
throughout the organization.
- Defines appropriate project-related Business Architecture deliverables, review and approve such deliverables.
