Director, Portfolio Architect / Information Architect to Strategize and modernize the data landscape to drive business outcomes.

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