Business Analyst, Enterprise Architecture to support Architecture Review Board (ARB) and broader Enterprise Architecture function

S.i. Systems client is looking Business Analyst, Enterprise Architecture to support Architecture Review Board (ARB) and broader Enterprise Architecture function.

12 month contract - high chance of extension - 37.5 hours week - 3 days a week onsite in downtown Vancouver OR Calgary

MUST HAVES:

• 8-10+ years of experience in process design, technology governance, business analysis, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or facilitating governance forums (e.g., Architecture Review Board, solution design reviews, or risk management processes).
• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certifications
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture and governance concepts, including Capability mapping, Reference architectures, Application and technology lifecycles, Technical debt, risk, and exception management.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Business Analysis certifications (CBAP, PMI‑PBA)
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise architecture repositories or tools (e.g., LeanIX or comparable platforms)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enterprise Architecture Governance Leadership

• Serve as the operational lead for the ARB, ensuring architecture decisions are timely, well‑informed, and aligned to enterprise strategy.
• Coordinate with business partners to manage unplanned demand.
• Translate complex business and technical change into clear, decision‑ready architectural insights that enable confident leadership decisions.
• Act as the custodian of architecture decisions, ensuring outcomes are detailed in a consistent, auditable, and committed manner, with defined owners and timelines.

Architectural Insight, Analysis & Data Stewardship

• Champion LeanIX as the enterprise’s primary source of truth, driving high standards for data quality, lifecycle accuracy, and meta‑model integrity.
• Partner closely with enterprise, solution, and domain architects to ensure architecture artifacts tell a coherent enterprise story.
• Analyze trends across ARB submissions to surface systemic risks, technical debt, emerging patterns, and opportunities for simplification.
• Create and evolve dashboards and analytical views that enable leadership to understand architecture health, risk exposure, and decision throughput.
• Proactively lead data‑quality improvements, influencing teams to treat EA data as a strategic asset, not an administrative task.

Process Excellence and Continuous Improvement

• Continuously evolve ARB and EA governance processes to be lean, predictable, and value focused, balancing speed with architectural rigor.
• Leverage AI‑assisted analysis and automation to improve process efficiency, decision throughput, and the quality of architectural insights, while maintaining appropriate governance controls.
• Define and maintain standards, templates, and guidance that make it easier for teams to do the “right thing” architecturally.
• Contribute to the maturation of enterprise architecture practices, including:
• Use metrics and collaborator feedback to measure governance efficiency and drive ongoing improvement.

Partner Engagement & Communication

• Act as a trusted partner to ARB members, architects, product leaders, and delivery teams.
• Engage with business partner to manage and triage unplanned demand.
• Support unplanned or high‑urgency requests with clarity, pragmatism, and decision‑making.
• Translate architectural outcomes into clear, audience-appropriate communications for executives, project groups, and governance bodies.
• Collaborate with ServiceNow and enablement teams to automate and streamline architecture workflows, reducing manual effort and cycle time.
• Visibility across enterprise‑wide initiatives and strategic investments.
• Opportunity to shape and mature architecture governance as a business enabler, not a bottleneck.
• A role that blends strategic thinking, architectural rigor, and organizational leadership.