HM Note: This contract role is remote, and candidates work remotely. Candidates must reside in Ontario, Canada. Candidate resumes must include first and last name, email and telephone contact information. This role commences April 1, 2026

Description

Scope

• The Senior Business Architect will provide advanced architectural leadership and guidance to support the project team in navigating Corporate Architecture Review Board (CARB) gates, with particular focus on AGP 2, where key architecture and requirements deliverables are produced. The Senior Business Architect will be responsible for ensuring that business, information, and software requirements are aligned with enterprise standards, strategic objectives, and regulatory expectations.

Assignment Deliverables

• CARB Documentation: Develop Information Architecture, Business Architecture, System Requirements, and System Architecture documents covering data, processes, requirements, integrations, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Solution Requirements: Produce functional/non‑functional requirements, system use cases, data models/data dictionary, and reporting requirements to support solution design and integration planning.
• Stakeholder & Feasibility Support: Deliver executive‑to‑team presentations and status reports, and perform feasibility assessments of solution options, risks, costs, and organizational readiness.
• Testing & Implementation Support: Support test strategy development, UAT planning and execution, test coordination, defect management, and readiness assessment for

Skills

Experience and Skillset Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience with working for the Ontario Public Sector
• Experience with implementing an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
• Experience in health care, preferably a correctional health care setting
• Experience working on digital health related projects

Desired Skills and Experience

• Status reporting
• System and network architecture documents
• Experience in Enterprise Architecture Gating
• Experience authoring governance deliverables and seeking approvals
• Designing Value Chains, Value Stream Mapping, BPMN 2.0, Collaboration Diagrams, Business Context diagrams, information modeling, Business Canvas Modeling
• Experience completing environmental scans, reference architecture analysis, enterprise requirements analysis
• Experience conducting Impact & Risk Analysis (TRA, RMR)
• Knowledge of and experience in Change Management (ADKAR)
• Experience working with Agile teams, agile frameworks, burndown, & estimation
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma (asset)
• Knowledge of Corrections

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Business Architecture - 40 Points

• Hands on/working 10+ years' experience in business architecture for large scale implementations including exposure to developing technical architecture
• Demonstrated experience in creating Business Cases, Business Requirements Document, other Business architecture artefacts, Enterprise architecture artefacts and assist Solution designer/architect in the preparation of technical artefacts including technical design
• Demonstrated experience working on large systems implementation and case management solutions
• Excellent knowledge of system concepts and development methodologies to support business applications
• Experience working on digital health projects
• Experience implementing an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution

Criteria 2: Technical Skills - 25 Points

• Experience in technical and functional design and architecture for n-tier applications
• Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD sessions
• Demonstrated experience in working with technical SMEs and business SMEs in reviewing and analysing design gaps, provide initial cost and time estimates for change requests and enhancements, assist development team in first level triaging of defects to identify solution gaps and review with business and delivery team

Criteria 3: Communication Skills - 20 Points

• Demonstrated experience to provide leadership in the creation of business architecture documentation, functional and technical design documentation
• Proven ability to support the client in development of check point artifacts, gating material and Enterprise Architecture artefacts
• Hands on experience in working with business stakeholders on functional design sessions and detailed solution design sessions in particular experience working specifically with health care providers/professionals
• Experience with briefing ministry management and officials

Criteria 4: Tools and Methodology - 15 Points

• Experience in the use of business architecture and modeling software such as Power Designer, Enterprise Architecture
• Experience with the Ontario Public Sector Architecture gating process
• Experience with Electronic Medical Record solutions

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT

• Knowledge around Business Processes and workflows.

To whom

• Project Manager / Team members

When

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation in DevOps Wiki and boards throughout the duration of the project life cycle.

Must Haves:

• Experience with implementing an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
• Experience in health care, preferably a correctional health care setting
• Experience working on digital health related projects