Senior Information Architect

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Job Description:

Our client has a requirement for an Senior Information Architect for a  12 month contract opportunity.  The positions are located in North York.

What makes this Special:

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Requirement:

• Responsible for the overall design of the information architecture
• Must balance the need for access against security and performance requirements.
• Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance (incl. defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates).
• Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded and leveraged across lines of business.
• Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards and transformation rules.
• Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements.
• Monitor compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact.
• Monitor emerging industry standards (such as XML, RDF, OWL and XBRL) to determine impact.
• Translate strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, associated metamodel, common business vocabulary, ontology’s and taxonomies, which will then be used to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.
• Develop a metadata management and repository strategy to manage all enterprise information architecture project artifacts.
• When necessary, oversee mapping of enterprise information architecture models to package application models, to determine impact or assess suitability of vendor solutions to enterprise information architecture requirements.
• Facilitate the mapping and auditability of information assets as they flow from upstream legacy, package or custom development and interfaces to downstream analytical applications, thus ensuring optimal transparency, quality, consistency and controlled redundancy across the enterprise.
• Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or information across multiple content types (structured, semi structured, XML or unstructured) to support convergence of information asset migration planning or impact analysis.
• Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance (including defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates).
• Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded and leveraged across the enterprise.
• Ensure the enterprise information architecture maps to the enterprise architecture.
• Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise consistency specifications.
• Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements.
• Ensure timely and appropriate information models exist to aid projects.
• Develop a model management strategy in support of enterprise reuse and data-sharing objectives.
• Validate audit objectives and assist with creation of audit plans to ensure continued data integrity and transparency.
• Establish guidelines for reporting procedures on the reuse of enterprise information architecture artifacts.
• Participate with new development activities and ensure they are consistent and well integrated with the established enterprise information architecture, using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards adoption.
• Facilitate consistent business analysis for information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archiving and recovery strategies.
• Assist in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.
• Participate in key project design reviews as part of the methodology process to ensure application designs adhere to enterprise information architecture guidelines.
• Review corporate data sources for new business information and better sources of data feeds.
• Interface with the business community to provide data governance and design strategies.
• Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as consumer privacy issues and PCI ) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
• Monitor compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
• Monitor emerging industry standards (such as XML, RDF, OWL and XBRL) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
• Evaluate industry best practice data models (i.e.: ARTS) and provide leadership for adapting to our business.
• Drive data design and stewardship practices for large enterprise initiatives such as CRM.  Leverage enterprise data quality toolsets (i.e.: Oracle UCM) to provide a platform that functions as the master file for enterprise customer identification.

Qualified Candidates will have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related study (such as library science), or equivalent related project experience.
• 10+ years of direct information architecture work experience, ideally in a fast paced, changing retail environment
• In-depth experience designing and implementing information solutions.
• Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures that enable well-integrated transactional, collaborative and analytical systems.
• Data/information modeling expertise at the enterprise level.
• Understanding of common information architecture frameworks (such as Zachman and FEAF).
• Understanding of differences between relational modeling and object modeling.
• Understanding of taxonomies and ontology’s, as well as the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modeling) to less structured sources.
• Understanding of metamodels.
• Knowledge of problem analysis, structured analysis, and design and programming techniques.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for a variety of stakeholders.
• Knowledge of project planning and management, including scope, time and resource management.
• Experience creating information policy to support effective design of information systems and use of information across the enterprise.
• Experience with various information modeling techniques (such as data flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams or create/read/update/delete matrices).
• Familiarity with business intelligence and data warehousing development techniques.
• High-level understanding of relational database management systems and other data structures.
• Experience with data governance structures and tools
• Experience with enterprise customer master technologies (i.e. Oracle UCM)
• Strong leadership skills, communicating and influencing business application owners/champions, users and 3rd party suppliers
• Experience writing business cases to demonstrate the value of information management initiatives
• Familiarity with PCI-DSS, PIPEDA, PHIPPA and other regulatory items that affect retail and healthcare data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms and is able to tailor communication to audience, mediate and facilitate communications between others, and communicate information architecture to all levels of management and customers.  Must have the ability to gain buy-in from stakeholders on complex issues.
• Ability to work at tactical and strategic level simultaneously
• Extensive experience in dealing with large IT System and Service providers
• Ability to exercise professional judgment and assume responsibility for decisions
• High energy team builder committed to continuous improvement
• Works well with others.
• Is a respected leader.
• Is charismatic.
• Remains neutral toward any specific technology choice or vendor; is more interested in results than personal preferences.
• Displays intellectual integrity.
• Is motivated by long-term results.

Key Words: PIPEDA, Information Architect, Zachman, XML

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