Reporting to the Manager, Business Improvement & Architecture, the Business Architect plays a crucial strategic role to bridge the gap from strategy to execution, aligning business & technology to achieve strategic outcomes and facilitate operating model impacts. This role is responsible for designing and aligning the business architecture of the corporation, ensuring that it supports the strategic goals and objectives of the business. The role oversees the implementation and governance of business architecture, collaborating with various stakeholders across the enterprise including enterprise architecture, strategy, product management, and senior business leadership.

As a trusted advisor to business leaders, the Business Architect develops & maintains the target business architecture to make the business changes required to achieve our long-term enterprise strategic objectives and benefits, maintaining a business capability model and maturity to determine what capabilities need to mature to achieve our objectives.

• Apply business architecture tools and techniques to analyze, design and communicate the execution of business strategy.
• Clarify business problems, explore solution options, and shape initiatives early to ensure readiness for execution.
• Deliver high-level business requirements and impact assessments that clarify scope, align business and technology, and enable confident, informed decisions.
• Identify the gaps between the current and target state business architectures and work alongside senior business leadership to define the initiatives and actions required to close them.
• Define and maintain business architecture framework, standards, and best practices for the corporation.
• Document, maintain and model the enterprise business capabilities, value streams, resources and processes (in conjunction with Business Process Architects).
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to develop and maintain the connections between business and technology architecture.
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to support initiative shaping, solution alignment, and roadmap development—ensuring business needs are clearly defined
• Establish and maintain the governance, standards, methods, tools and best practices for business architecture development and use.
• Guide the business process team in applying business architecture to address strategic and operational challenges.

Education:

• Degree in commerce, business administration or related discipline.
• Business or Technical Architecture certification is strongly recommended (CBA, CEA, CITA, TOGAF, etc.)

The following are considered assets:

• • Project management certification or recognized accounting designation.
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification.
  • Lean and or Six Sigma certification.
  • Experience in Business and/or Digital transformation projects.

Experience: 

• Seven years of related experience in business solution design, solution architecture or management consultation covering a wide range of disciplines including:
  • Three years working as an architect or alongside architects.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced communication skills to convey technical information in a clear, concise and understandable manner for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advanced analytical skills to solve problems and recommend solutions to enhance operations to improve service delivery.
• Experience with BPM software and tools (e.g. Visio, Archimate, BPMN).

Health benefits

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

• flexible health, dental and vision plans
• health spending account
• travel health coverage
• other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

• registered pension plan
• group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
• critical illness insurance
• sick leave to cover short-term disability
• long-term disability

Wellness

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

• vacation entitlement
• flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• lunch-and-learn offerings
• discounted gym memberships and wellness account

Diversity and inclusion

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.