Business Architect, Level 3 – Product Owner, Business Transformation Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Serve as the Product Owner for a mobile inspection application utilizing Power Platform, taking charge of the product vision, roadmap, and release priorities.

• Develop and oversee the backlog in Azure DevOps, including epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demos, and release planning alongside the development team.

• Collect, validate, and prioritize business, functional, and integration requirements in collaboration with inspectors and operational personnel.

• Evaluate a legacy inspection platform to determine what should be migrated, replaced, modernized, or decommissioned.

• Ensure seamless integration of the new application with existing enterprise systems and shared components.

• Assist in testing, user validation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Provide coaching and mentorship to an internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) in product management, agile methodologies, and Azure DevOps.

• Conduct a current-state assessment of Vessel Registry business processes, workflows, and service delivery.

• Lead process mapping and value-stream analysis to pinpoint bottlenecks, redundancies, and inefficiencies.

• Utilize Lean and continuous improvement strategies to uncover opportunities for automation, simplification, and standardization.

• Formulate future-state recommendations, identify quick wins, and create an implementation action plan.

• Conduct interviews, workshops, journey mapping, and validation sessions with stakeholders ranging from frontline staff to Directors General.

• Prepare executive briefings, reports, and presentations.

• Provide monthly progress updates and facilitate knowledge transfer.

• Deliver a product roadmap along with a prioritized product backlog.

• Produce a comprehensive business requirements package.

• Create an assessment of legacy system capabilities and a transition strategy.

• Develop recommendations for modernization and implementation.

• Deliver a coaching and enablement plan for SMEs.

• Produce a current-state assessment of Vessel Registry, including process maps and an improvement action plan.

• Prepare executive briefings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in business architecture, business transformation, or product ownership at Level 3.

• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner on agile delivery teams.

• Proficient in Azure DevOps with hands-on experience managing backlogs, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Experience in gathering and prioritizing requirements from operational or field-based users.

• Knowledge of current-state process mapping and Lean or continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience in assessing legacy systems and planning for their transition or modernization.

• Strong facilitation abilities and comfort in presenting to executive stakeholders.

• Enhanced Reliability Clearance is required.

• Preferred experience in delivering Microsoft Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Dataverse).

• Experience in mobile or field-inspection applications is preferred.

• Familiarity with the Government of Canada, particularly in a regulatory, inspection, or compliance context is ideal.

• Preferred experience in coaching or mentoring staff in product management or agile methodologies.

• Lean certification (e.g., Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt) or a product owner certification (CSPO, PSPO) is preferred.

• Experience in marine, transportation, or registry operations is favorable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Supportive and collaborative work environment.

• Flexible working arrangements.