Position Title: Information Architect

Location: Vancouver

The Company:

Burntsand is a North American leader in the delivery of technology consulting services for customers with complex information processing and information management requirements in three practice areas - Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration and Service Management - aligned around our strategic partners, EMC, Microsoft and BMC. The Company delivers strategic design, technology architecture and custom application development through our proven Time-to-Value methodology, which mitigates business risk and speeds process improvements and returns. Headquartered in Toronto, Burntsand operates from locations across North America. The Company's shares (TSX: BRT) are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Learn more about Burntsand at www.burntsand.com

Our Collaboration Practice:

Burntsand's Collaboration solutions focus on creating workflows to deliver automation. Many organizations still rely heavily on a variety of information sources. Our solutions allow distributed information access as well as extensibility, simple administration and interoperability. An early adopter of sophisticated Microsoft applications and an award winning Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, we have developed best-in-class solutions. These solutions increase organizational productivity through integrated applications, information sharing, and content management. Burntsand's deep expertise in Microsoft .NET, SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM technology enable us to optimize the value of technology for our clients. Due to our success in delivering high quality Microsoft technology solutions to our clients, Burntsand is expanding our Microsoft Practice in Vancouver

Role Responsibilities:

As a Burntsand consultant, your duties will include interacting with user, business and executive groups to help define the client's needs and translating those needs into a solution of value. As a partner to our clients, we do what is necessary to help them be a success. The ability to empathize with and understand the business needs of the client is one of the single most important characteristics you bring to the job as well as a great attitude toward teamwork and superb technical ability. Burntsand's team of highly trained and specialized consultants differentiates us from other technology services firms.

As an Information Architect you will:

Work within technology and package constraints to create compelling user experiences including intranets and extranets, custom desktop applications, and content-managed web sites.
Consult as business analysis and taxonomy expert, helping leading companies to organize and categorize information for ease of retrieval and use.
Work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams including customer stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, designers, developers, testers, and systems personnel
Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle

Role Requirements:

Excellence in problem-solving and idea generation
Site mapping, wireframing and prototyping using Sketchflow, Visio, HTML, paper prototypes
User testing, use cases and profile/scenario development
Workflow and taxonomy best practices
Highly developed communication and presentation skills
"Light" project and team management abilities
Creative outlook and supportive team player
Deep understanding of consensus-building within large organizations
Disciplined self-starter able to manage work to successful completion
Ability to communicate ideas to designers, clients, and technologists and broker compromises
Proven experience completing IA work for portals as well as web sites and custom applications
Excellent specification/documentation and end user training skills
Experience with healthcare, financial services, or media & entertainment a plus
Work sample showing problem-solving for a complex business solution is required (wireframes are preferred)
Microsoft Expression Studio, Visio, Office PowerPoint
Basic HTML familiarity (coding not required but familiarity is essential)
SharePoint product/feature knowledge a plus
Diplomacy (all great consultants display this trait)
Technically adept (you have current skills and are able to deploy them across a variety of projects and solutions)
Communication (you can converse with customer and team members of all levels)
Commitment (to your customer, your team and your project

If you are looking for an environment in which you can challenge yourself and develop new skills in a collaborative, team-based environment, we think you'll like it here. Our consultants - from creative designers to technical architects and project managers - are some of the best you will work with in your career. We encourage and expect Responsibility, Accountability, Trust, Respect, Recognition and Leadership from all our employees. We hope you will become part of the team.

Burntsand is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We thank all applicants for their interest in advance, and advise that only candidates being considered will be contacted.

No telephone calls or agencies please.

While Burntsand appreciates the interest of all applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview