Business Architect (RE-06), IM/IT Strategic Management

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Assessment accommodation

This position is located in Ottawa. As a result of the global pandemic, OSFI employees are currently working from home. Should the current telework environment no longer apply, the successful candidate will be required to report to and work onsite from the Ottawa office.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY: Achieving a representative and diverse workforce has been identified as an organizational need for OSFI and may be applied at any time during this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the specified designated group(s) will be considered. As such, first consideration for an appointment may be given to candidates who self-declare as belonging to one of the four designated employment equity groups (Persons with a disability, Aboriginal people, Members of a Visible Minority, or Women).

In order to self-declare, please ensure to check off the appropriate box within the online application under the Employment Equity section. We encourage you to consult theses links to learn more about employment equity and self-declaration:
• https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/services/gc-jobs/employment-equity.html
• https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/services/gc-jobs/applying-government-canada-jobs-how-to-apply.html#EE

Duties

What you will be doing:
- Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
- Analyze the business structure and service delivery framework and make recommendations to implement value-added changes to strategic, core, and support business functions and processes.
- Work closely with Client Relationship Management team and business clients to understand and capture functional and non-functional requirements for IT investments that support business capabilities.
- Lead workshops and meetings with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, identify and map expected outcomes, develop and communicate strategic and operational business designs and process models.
- Design and direct the governance activities associated with architecture assurance and compliance.
- Understand and analyze technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

Work environment

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) is an independent agency of the Government of Canada, established in 1987 to contribute to the safety and soundness of the Canadian financial system. OSFI supervises and regulates federally registered banks and insurers, trust and loan companies, as well as private pension plans subject to federal oversight.

What OSFI offers
OSFI is a separate agency that offers a competitive salary and eligibility for performance pay annually. People are the foundation of our organization. You will become part of a diverse community that acknowledges that everyone has varied experience and fosters an environment where communication and teamwork amplify our effectiveness.

Working at OSFI offers the following:

Mandate
The work you do at OSFI matters. Your efforts contribute to the safety and soundness of the financial sector. A strong financial sector promotes competition, and benefits all Canadians.

Learning & Development
Our organization understands that ongoing learning and development is critical and necessary, and must evolve with developments in the Financial Sector. Learning and Development is a key component of our Human Capital Strategy.

Community & Culture
We strive to create a working environment that allows employees to work to their fullest potential. We strive to promote employee wellbeing, including a focus on balancing work and personal needs. Subject to operational requirements, we offer opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Benefits
As a Federal Government Agency, OSFI offers a number of competitive benefits to its employees, including a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, maternity and parental leave benefits, vacation (4 weeks), personal and family leave days.

Intent of the process

The immediate need is to staff one position with a language requirement of Bilingual Imperative (BBB/BBB) on an indeterminate basis.

A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be created to staff similar positions with various tenures (indeterminate, term, acting, etc.) and/or security requirements (reliability, secret, etc.) within the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:
- A degree from a post-secondary institution with a specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another field relevant OR an acceptable combination of relevant professional industry experience, training and education.

Degree equivalency

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:
- Recent* and significant** experience in in examining and identifying candidate business processes for re-design and identifying options for improvement.
- Significant** experience using modeling techniques to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
- Significant** experience modeling future state business processes.
- Experience in providing advice to senior management verbally and in writing.
- Experience in applying architectural principles to business solutions.

*“Recent” is defined as having been acquired in the last 2 years.
**Significant means the depth and breadth of experience that is normally acquired by performing the tasks over a period of 5 years or more.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET EDUCATION:
- In addition to the Essential Qualifications identified above, please provide details if you possess one or more of the following Asset Education and Asset Experience criteria identified below.
 MBA or a Master's degree in a field relevant to the position to be staffed.
 Certified Business Architect® Certification.
 Open® Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Certification (Level 1, 2 or 3).
 TOGAF® 9 Certification (Level 1 or 2).

Degree equivalency

ASSET EXPERIENCE:
- You may be required to meet a combination of any of these asset experience criteria:
 Experience in a significant business transformation change initiative within an organization.
 Experience as a business architect in a public or private organization related to the financial services sector*.
 Experience working with an Enterprise Architecture tool to develop and document business architecture models.
 Experience developing and implementing a business architecture practice within an organization.

*Financial services sector includes experience working in a financial institution, including banks, insurance companies, pension funds, wealth management firms, and accounting firms (dealing with audits), as well as government departments that directly deal with the Supervision and Regulation of these institutions, or other relevant areas.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE:
- Knowledge of how business architecture integrates with and supports strategic business planning;
- Knowledge of how business architecture integrates with the other components of a holistic enterprise architecture (EA);
- Knowledge of effective techniques for eliciting business process transformation requirements to support a business vision and strategy;
- Knowledge of business capability modeling techniques and best practices.
- Knowledge of business process modeling techniques and the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard.
- General knowledge of commercial enterprise software solutions, such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Case Management, Enterprise Content Management, office productivity tools, integration platforms, data management and collaboration tools.

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES:
- Critical Thinking
- Impact and Influence
- Change Leadership
- Building Business Relationships
- Collaboration
- Excellent Oral Communication Skills
- Excellent Written Communication Skills

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
- OSFI is committed to having a skilled and diverse workforce representative of the Canadian population. In order to meet our employment equity objectives, selection for this position may be made from among qualified candidates who self-declare as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Persons with a disability, Aboriginal people, Members of a Visible Minority, or Women. OSFI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we strongly encourage candidates to self-declare if they belong to one of these designated employment equity groups.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Willingness and ability to travel within Canada.
- Willingness and ability to work overtime, on occasion.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

- In our current telework environment, the ability to work remotely from home within Canada with access to Internet in one’s residence is a condition of employment.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

In order for your application to be considered, you must submit a completed questionnaire. You will be required to demonstrate how you meet the education and experience criteria (essential and asset) for the initial screening, in answering online screening questions. It is NOT sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must clearly demonstrate HOW, WHEN and WHERE the qualification was met through substantiation by examples. Information on your described education and experience provided in the screening questions should be supported by your résumé. Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process.

By providing the required information in the suggested format, you will ensure that the assessors are in a position to assess the depth, complexity and scope of your experience.

A written examination may be administered.

An interview may be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

The ability to communicate effectively in writing may be assessed using the candidate's application, as well as through the evaluation process.

Please note that OSFI has offices located in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. If you are screened in, you may be required to travel to one of these locations to complete assessment (exam, interview, etc.).

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only). Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. A candidate may be appointed to a position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications may be applied at any time during the staffing process, including screening. Candidates may be contacted and assessed against these criteria at any time during this process.

Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an organizational need and may be applied in this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the specified designated group(s) will be considered.

A top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail (including sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

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OSFI's Ottawa location is downtown with easy access to shopping, restaurants, gyms, financial institutions and more. The building is less than a five minute walk from LRT and STO stops.

As a Separate Agency, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) appoints employees in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). OSFI is named in Schedule V of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and it offers the same pension and benefits plans as the core Federal Public Service. In addition to this, OSFI employees obtain a minimum of 4 weeks of vacation leave per year, earn a competitive salary, and are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.