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Ref: RQ11571 Contract – 6 Months (Extension Possible) Onsite – Toronto (595 Bay St.)
Posted Date: 2026-10-26
Location: Onsite – Toronto (595 Bay St.)
Public Sector Experience: Required – OPS / Public Sector
Contract End Date: 2027-03-31 *
Rate: $103/hour
Overview
The Government Services Integration Cluster (Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement) is seeking a Senior Information Architect to provide expert information architecture leadership across enterprise and cross-jurisdictional initiatives. The successful consultant will develop foundational frameworks, standardized artefacts, and governance structures that support information sharing, interoperability, and digital transformation across multiple business domains. This is a hands-on role requiring the ability to create original documentation and standardized templates from scratch.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, identify, and describe information architecture requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders, obtaining appropriate approvals
- Develop enterprise information architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and roadmaps aligned to strategic business objectives
- Design and implement enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks, and metadata standards
- Establish common business definitions, semantic models, and information domain models to support interoperability and enterprise data governance across multiple business domains
- Develop conceptual information models, information domain maps, and semantic structures that support information discovery and cross-organizational understanding
- Create and maintain metadata standards, metadata models, and information asset inventories
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops to establish common business terminology, concepts, and information requirements
- Develop information architecture artefacts with traceability to business capabilities, processes, and requirements
- Support architecture governance processes, checkpoints, and architecture review boards
- Research, develop, and maintain information architecture policies, standards, and best practices
- Provide expert information architecture advice to project teams, business stakeholders, and senior management
- Conduct complex information architecture assessments and reviews supporting enterprise modernization initiatives
Must-Have Requirements
- Demonstrated experience defining, identifying, and describing information architecture requirements with business and technical stakeholders and obtaining appropriate approvals
- Demonstrated experience developing enterprise information architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and roadmaps
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, classification frameworks, and metadata standards
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra, or equivalent metadata management solutions
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives
- Ability to create original documentation and standardized templates from the ground up (not copy/adapt existing materials)
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Prior Ontario Public Sector (OPS) or broader public sector experience
- Experience with semantic technologies, ontology concepts, and knowledge graph initiatives
- Knowledge of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Experience with public sector information architecture programs
- Ability to manage competing priorities and tight timelines
Work Environment
This is a fully onsite role based at 595 Bay St., Toronto, five days per week. No security clearance is required. The consultant will collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders across the Government Services Integration Cluster and participate in enterprise-wide architecture governance processes.
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- Final role details, responsibilities, and terms will be confirmed with shortlisted candidates. Compensation may vary based on experience. Errors and omissions excepted.
