At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.
Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.
At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
The Lead, Business Architect contributes to the development, execution and maturing of Ontario Health's enterprise architecture program and responsible for supporting the portfolio's Provincial Health Data and Digital Service (PHDDS) initiative. This initiative is a large-scale, complex, transformation initiative that will establish and implement the new operating model for Ontario Health and the province. PHDDS is recognized as a top priority initiative by the Ministry of Health’s Data and Digital Branch with exposure to all executive levels both within Ontario Health (OH) and the Ministry. A strong collaborative working relationship with the leadership team across provincial data leaders and Digital Excellence in Health (DxH) as well as across Ontario Health is essential. As a Lead, Business Architect, you will play a leading role in ensuring that Ontario Health and partner solutions support the needs of the business in alignment to the overall vision of “collect data once, use many”. The Lead, Business Architect looks at enterprise-wide solutions and is responsible for leading change initiatives for the organization. The Lead, Business Architect will also be responsible for mentoring Architects and Senior Architects by elevating their scope of knowledge and breadth of aspects of business architecture.
The Lead, Business Architect will coordinate, direct, and design activities and provides guidance to architect(s) and SMEs throughout the lifecycle. The Lead, Business Architect develops, advocates, and champions Ontario Health’s Enterprise & Business Architecture vision by providing architecture and solution design expertise and guidance internally, to local and province-wide health care organizations, and delivery partners to facilitate information sharing across the health sector in support of provincial mandates, organizational and health system goals. The Lead, Business Architect leads large complex initiatives ensuring alignment between strategies and operational initiatives. The Lead, Business Architect contributes, advocates for, and ensures alignment of complex, multi-organization stakeholder initiatives to the PHDDS Initiative and Ontario Health’s enterprise architecture vision. The Lead, Business Architect collaborates with initiative leadership to define goals and objectives for the initiative.
Strategy and Planning
Participate in the development of Ontario Health’s Digital and Data Strategy and capture the strategic and tactical goals through various business models (including vision, goals, objectives, mission, tactics, roadmaps, plans, capability maps, value streams)
Lead the building and maintenance of the operating model and its continuous evolution to align with strategic direction.
Facilitate business leaders and cross functional teams in the development, maintenance and evolution of the provincial and business capability roadmap that demonstrates how current and future business models will drive digital and data needs. Deliverables include (but not limited to): Capability models, thermography, maturity and impact assessments and roadmaps.
Lead strategic planning processes by providing input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives and visibility into impacts, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities. Identify process improvements, opportunities and trends and introduce them into the strategic planning cycle.
Provide management consultancy services to business leaders, business units and other stakeholders, to support with design thinking, business modeling, ecosystem modeling, innovation management, IT investment analysis, and operating model design.
Develop business models, processes and procedures, recommendations, and action plans to enable digital and portfolio transformation without compromising business and operational continuity.
Business Architecture
Responsible for creating architectures, roadmaps, and plans for the interconnection of multiple OH products and services in the context of Provincial system integrations and overall Provincial strategic objects.
Assists the managers set team direction and goals.
Contributes to provincial vision and overall architecture blueprints.
As a lead, coaches and mentors staff working on product and service architecture (e.g., OLIS, CDR, OneID).
Develops, maintains, and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice toward the betterment of Ontario Health, Ontario, and Canada wide health system IT architecture practice.
Guides and influences portfolios and partners to align solutions to Ontario Health’s digital and data vision considering provincial, national, and international mandates.
Collaborates with, guides, and mentor's senior, junior and peer architects by elevating their breadth and scope of knowledge of business and information architecture, the Healthcare domain, architecture patterns and best practices, supporting the practice of architecture and the development of business architecture models and documentation.
Understands and translates tactical and operational business requirements into effective architecture and designs.
Resolves business rules, information and application conflicts involving shared services, applications, and resources.
Develops architecture processes, procedures, templates, etc. and provides assistance to others.
Directs, trains, mentors and coaches' transformation, customer value and product/service team members and functional experts to grow capabilities and key skills.
Promotes a culture of engagement that develops and motivates teams by fostering an inclusive work environment, collaboration, communicating architecture vision, and strategies.
Works with product/portfolio/initiative management, support roadmaps and architectural alignment to ensure delivery of project, product, portfolio objectives.
Maintains architecture service quality at the Product and Service Level within the specialty domain. (e.g., EHR, Identity Management, Infrastructure, Data).
Collaborates with, guides and mentor's senior, junior and peer architects by elevating their breadth and scope of knowledge of business and information architecture, the Healthcare domain, architecture patterns and best practices, supporting the practice of architecture and supporting the development of solution architecture models and documentation.
Leads project work in a domain and communicating and guiding consumers and project from assets business and technical aspects.
Develops visionary solutions, as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them, for complex provincial and regional initiatives that meet customer needs and timelines, while adhering to overall enterprise architecture vision and organizational business plans.
Reduces current and future costs across local, provincial, and national initiatives by identifying misalignments, duplication of efforts, and other opportunities for improvement in the architecture and escalates, proposes, and drives to delivery, practical, efficient, and reusable solutions.
Consults on, advises, and influences provincial project planning by identifying architecturally significant cross-project and system dependencies to ensure target delivery dates are realistic and meet Ontarian's expectations.
Reduces duplication of effort, cost overruns and impacts on timeline by identifying, championing, and influencing strategic and tactical business and IT opportunities; leads business and IT transformation initiatives to their realization; maximizes outcomes by balancing cost, quality, and time to production.
Assesses and identifies cross-product gaps and opportunities for reuse and/or alignment, and advocates for solutions to address gaps with product owners maximizing reuse and alignment.
Builds sustainable, trusted relationships with stakeholders, partners, colleagues, and superiors.
Acts as subject matter expert to internal stakeholders in specialized areas such as laboratories, digital identity, data, etc.
Acts as single point of contact for OH partners to support understanding the use and architecture of specific OH products and services.
Works with internal and external (regional, provincial) stakeholders to understand business needs across OH and their impact on specific products/portfolios.
Assists clients in defining non-functional requirements such as application, information, and solution management, sharing and re-use. · Identifies and escalates issues and works with clients to ensure adherence to application management and quality standards.
Provides thought leadership across the OH business areas and the province.
Guides and influences project/product/portfolio teams to align and build with an eye to OH's architectural vision and principles. Contributes to roadmaps and product vision. Provides alternative solutions and options for business and technical challenges. Identifies gaps, risks and dependencies in project/product/portfolio deliverables and roadmaps provide guidance for planning and delivery to address gaps and risks.
Works on provincial systems with many stakeholders and varied interests (e.g., physicians, specialty care, community care, etc.).
Frequently engages with Ministry of Health peers and colleagues outside of OH.
Leads change within their domain/product/portfolio.
Directs and influences business and technical decisions and processes using knowledge of future vision and influencing and guiding solutions to align to enterprise vision and roadmaps.
Solves complex problems that span multiple assets and promotes architecture patterns and principles to ensure reusability, and maintainability.
Makes decisions where results have critical impact across the organization requiring sophisticated solutions and long-term correction.
Frequently references and interprets Provincial Legislation particularly PHIPA to ensure compliant business architecture deliverables.
Uses experience in developing a data/information asset management strategy, initiative, framework, and guiding principles that enables and ensures data and information is a strategic asset.
Applies demonstrated working experience with Data & Digital Strategy and large data and/or information transformation initiatives.
Works with Data interoperability SME’s and leaders by applying knowledge and experience with clinical data, terminology, and technical standards such as HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR, SNOMED CT/SNOMED CT-CA, LOINC/pCLOCD, ICD-10-CA/CCI
Strong problem solving and analytical skills to identify gaps and opportunities within domains, sectors and/or solutions, and drive improvement and efficiency; create strategies to mitigate various types of business, privacy, security, and financial risks; define and drive alternative solutions to meet business and technical problems across teams, portfolios and products; influence provincial project planning by identifying architecturally significant cross-project and system dependencies.
Strong communications skills, both orally and writing, to engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs: facilitate, negotiate, and communicate in support of internal and external partner engagement at the local, provincial level and delivering presentation material, designing documents and/or training material for both technical and non-technical audiences and drive to consensus between internal stakeholders with conflicting goals and priorities; communicate to internal and external executives, business domain stakeholders and technical staff.
Ability to understand disparate health IT systems’ place in the Health System and compare and contrast solutions and patterns to recommend/propose efficient and effective architectures and solutions.
Ability to work at a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.
Ability to collaborate with internal peers and local initiatives to ensure alignment of architecture practices, patterns, and solutions.
Ability to stay current on business strategy and assess new trends with respect to Ontario Health’s business needs, and identify opportunities, impacts and transformations required to realize their value and assess their implications on the future state of specific products or portfolios.
Ability to stay abreast of provincial, national, and international business, technology, architecture and solution design trends.
Ability to work with internal and external (regional, provincial, national, international) stakeholders to understand business needs across OH and trends in IT across the broader health system as they relate to specific products or portfolios.
Ability to collaborate with external organizations both public and private (e.g., Government Organizations (e.g., Ministry of Health, Canada Health Infoway), Health Care Organizations (e.g., Health Care Providers, Hospitals Administrators etc.), Software Vendors (e.g., EMR Vendors, HIS vendors), Independent Health Facilities (Laboratories, Imaging Centres etc.) to ensure alignment of architecture practices, patterns and solutions.
Business focused and technically savvy with the ability to communicate to internal and external executives, business domain stakeholders and technical staff alike to build consensus and resolve both business and technical conflicts.
Ability to understand and translate strategic, tactical and operational business requirements into effective architectures and designs.
Ability to interpret and apply IT privacy and security standards, principles, and regulations applicable to the health care sector (such as FIPPA, PHIPA) in development of architecture solutions.
Ability to interpret and apply health information management principles to digital health care systems, and to leverage health care interoperability standards such as HL7 V2, or FHIR in development of architecture solutions.
Ability to work on, prioritize and deliver multiple projects/initiatives according to agreed-upon timelines amidst constantly changing priorities.
Ability to define requirements for, execute and participate in public sector fair procurement processes.
Ability to make decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization.
Emotional intelligence is required within and across portfolios.
