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Business Architect

 
 
 
 
 





Global Enterprise Services (GES) is one of the foundational divisions of TMX organization that empowers internal TMX business lines for their technology needs, operations and digital innovation. GES as a client centric organization focuses on building technology capabilities, enabling our clients with the best technology solutions and providing effective technology financial and resource management processes. The cost effective operation is a key attribute of the GES execution. GES is responsible for delivery of all technology initiatives and services across TMX.

Business Architecture and Governance is a division within GES and is responsible for the definition and ongoing updates to technology roadmap, principles, standards, policies and business enterprise architecture for the entire TMX Group

Role Summary:

Business Architect will be a member of the Business Architecture and Governance team and will play an important role in defining and documenting the business enterprise architecture. The individual will perform this in a cost-effective and practical approach through a responsive framework. This framework must articulate the current state, target state and migration paths for key components of the TMX business technology environment in order to support of long and short term business goals and objectives.
Business Architect will play a major contributory role in creating policies and governance standards at TMX. The individual in this role will perform extensive modeling using various EA tools. The role will also require extensive documentation.
Business Architect will work collaboratively with business partners, project teams and other architecture professionals across the organization.

Key Accountabilities:

● Work closely with individual business lines to understand the business vision, strategy, and business capabilities and define technology roadmaps and blueprints accordingly.
● Document and model the architecture using standard methodologies and tools
● Be a contributing member of the team that create IT enterprise policies and governing standards
● Document the policies and governing standards
● Map business capabilities and technology capabilities to define target future state strategic business enterprise architecture
● Participate in the definition and implementation of technology governance that adheres to industry best practices while identifying the business risks and benefits of alternative technology business enterprise architectures.
● Assist in the selection and use of technologies, create business enterprise architecture model that is pragmatic, easy to follow, create value, and reduce technology complexity while being flexible and responsive to business needs.

Must Have Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of Architecture, Enterprises or Business Architecture & IT Governance related experience
• Excellent modelling and diagramming skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Expert in business enterprise architecture frameworks
• Solid experience with financial industry and capital markets, trading and clearing environment
• Experienced with variety of technology architecture including application, infrastructure, data and security
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical terms, ability to deal with abstract concepts and communicate these effectively through compelling written and graphical materials
• Have proven experience in delivering solutions, technology and architecture design at enterprise level
• ITIL and COBIT governance framework
• UML modeling, design patters and class diagrams
• Tools like EA
• Frameworks like : TOGAF
• Good understanding of the following technologies:
o Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac operating systems
o Database technologies – RDBMS and inmemory databases
o Cloud platforms
Nice to Have(s):
• Infrastructure as a Service, virtualization, Infrastructure as a code and containerization technologies
• Integration Platforms and Platform as a Service
• API first strategy– public and private APIs, API centric design and RESTful APIs
• Digital and Social engineering, Web technologies, Omni channels
• Big Data Analytics, Master Data Management, Hadoop, Spark
• Cybersecurity and cryptography
• Disruptive technologies applicable to stock exchange business such as blockchain
• Open source platforms
• End point devices such as mobile and single sign on
• Familiarity with enterprise level products such as Google for work, ServiceNow, Work Day, Salesforce, JIRA, ERP, CRM

Skills:

  • Infrastructure architecture





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