Job Description

Enterprise Architect – Federal Migration & Support Services

Mission Overview

This is a strategic mission within the ICT Department of a federal public agency, launched as a vital initiative supporting a large-scale governmental restructuring and the creation of a unified Directorate for Migration

The agency aims to professionalize and modernize data exchanges across its various internal applications and external data sources, with a key focus on enhancing reporting, data consolidation, and analytics capabilities. The chosen technical strategy involves designing and implementing a centralized data layer.

Additionally, the agency is actively participating in a major multi-entity digitalization program that sets up optimization efforts across several national immigration and legal authorities. In light of the departmental merger, the overarching objective is to define a unified, collaborative TO-BE enterprise architecture that bridges this multi-entity program with the agency's existing internal systems.

To successfully execute these strategic and tactical initiatives, the agency requires an external Enterprise / Business Architect to provide high-level architecture expertise.

Core Objectives

The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for creating a comprehensive inventory of all core applications and mapping every data stream within the agency, as well as data flows with external public partners and social security registers. A significant portion of this data is securely hosted within an enterprise data warehouse.

Leveraging this comprehensive "AS-IS" mapping, the architect will design and propose a targeted "TO-BE" solution to build a Centralized Data Layer This layer will achieve two main goals:

1. Advanced Reporting & Consolidation: Enable the agency to easily generate business intelligence reports and cross-reference available data via consolidated, robust databases.
2. Program Integration:
   Optimize the agency's alignment and participation in the broader multi-entity transformation program by simplifying internal data flows and centralizing data exchanges.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Architecture:
  Establish a formal business architecture framework at a tactical and strategic level to ensure a seamless alignment between the application/data layers and the business units. This includes building and maintaining the enterprise Capability Map
• Application Layer:
  Design, inventory, and analyze the current state ( AS-IS) and target state ( TO-BE) of the overall application landscape.
• Data Layer Architecture: Map out the AS-IS and TO-BE relationships, integrations, and dependencies between applications and data streams. Propose concrete optimization strategies via a Centralized Data Layer, strictly aligning with current architectural foundations ( Azure Data Warehouse and PowerBI) while collaborating closely with Internal Software Architects and the Head of Data & Analytics.
• Documentation Lifecycle: Analyze existing documentation, identify information gaps, and establish a clear action plan to elevate technical and architectural documentation to enterprise standards.
• Synergy & Gap Analysis: Evaluate structural synergies and gaps within the internal architecture, mapping out potential optimization paths in direct alignment with partner program architects and the broader federal framework.
• Working Group Participation: Initially, this role will be actively deployed within the Support Services Working Group to help establish the new unified directorate, spanning the following corporate domains: ICT, HR, Facilities/Logistics, and Finance/Procurement

Note: Deliverables and assignments will be continuously refined and adapted in mutual consultation to meet evolving project priorities and organizational necessities.