Director, Portfolio Architect / Information Architect to Strategize and modernize the data landscape to drive business outcomes.
S.i. Systems
Toronto, ON-
Number of positions available : 1
- Salary To be discussed
-
Permanent job
- Published on April 5th, 2024
-
Starting date : 1 position to fill as soon as possible
Description
Our client in the insurance industry is looking for a Director, Portfolio Architect / Information Architect to Strategize and modernize the data landscape to drive business outcomes.
Location: Downtown Toronto
Responsibilities:
- Accountable to ensure high quality delivery of leading-edge solutions that meet time and cost requirements that align with business unit (BU) and enterprise architecture principles and design standards
- Proactively identify areas and opportunities to use technology for enhancing organizational efficiency e.g. advocating critical Data elements
- Research and recommend opportunities to leverage technology and keep up with the industry to support the strategy e.g. identifying gaps in existing Data Governance tools
- Drive a high-performance culture for practitioner Solution Architects and influence this culture within IT
- Ensure leaders, employees and vendors work together to drive performance and that high expectations are achieved within the values of the organization
- Establish Enterprise Information Model by producing Ontologies and Taxonomies relevant to Canada Life business domains e.g. Health & Dental Insurance, Investing & Saving, Retirement
- Ensure Ontologies and Taxonomies enable delivery teams to build solutions (e.g. logical Data Models, domain aligned APIs, Data Mesh domains)
- Enable reuse of common Data models and develop Data modeling best practices
- Evangelize Metadata and Data Glossaries maintained by Data Governance team
Must Haves:
- 10+ years of experience in IT environments with a preference for significant complexity, highly regulated, and/or financial services
- 5+ progressive leadership experience related to both projects and teams
- Expertise in Data modeling and Information classification at an organization level for complex, large enterprises; including defining Data entities and relationships between entities
- Data Management fundamentals (e.g. Ontologies/Taxonomies, Data Governance, Business Glossary, Technical Glossary, Metadata Definition)
- Experience with implementing conceptual Data models including business capability aligned Data domains and canonical Data elements at an initiative level in alignment with enterprise standards
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: designing domain-driven Data products (based on Data Mesh paradigm), establishing Data Governance (including Data Quality and Data Lineage), defining Metadata, implementing MDM system, modelling APIs
- Information architecture frameworks in the financial, insurance and healthcare industries e.g. BIAN, ACORD, HL7 FHIR
- Proficiency in Erwin, ER/Studio or other visualization tools to represent Data models
Requirements
undetermined
undetermined
undetermined
undetermined
Other S.i. Systems's offers that may interest you
- Job posting | Senior Python developer to build an enterprise data warehouse. | Ottawa,ON
- Job posting | Senior Bilingual Project Manager to delivery a migration from Office 2016 to M365 | Montreal,QC
- Job posting | Sr. Platform Engineer with Typescript (NodeJS) experience to work in AWS environment for a banking client | Toronto,ON