Position Description
CGI is seeking an Enterprise Architect to guide the design and delivery of secure, cloud-based applications for a complex enterprise environment. You’ll shape architecture decisions and help multidisciplinary teams deliver Java and Spring Boot services, Angular applications, and microservices on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Working with business and technical stakeholders, you’ll turn requirements into practical designs and support teams through implementation, release, and transition to operations.
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Clearance: Secret clearance required. Candidates must have lived in Canada for at least 10 years to be eligible.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Define application architecture, design principles, technology choices, and implementation patterns that meet business needs and enterprise standards.
- Translate requirements and solution concepts into architecture views, technical designs, integration specifications, and practical guidance for delivery teams.
- Design microservices architectures, including service boundaries, API contracts, asynchronous communication, resilience, observability, and service-level data ownership.
- Assess solution options and explain trade-offs across cost, schedule, complexity, security, performance, scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Guide teams through implementation, design and code reviews, technical problem-solving, and architecture decisions.
- Work with business and product teams to clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and manage technical risks and assumptions.
- Define and validate non-functional requirements, including performance, availability, accessibility, privacy, security, and recoverability.
- Guide DevSecOps and CI/CD practices, including automated testing, infrastructure as code, deployment and release management, monitoring, and production readiness.
- Provide architecture guidance for Java-based services and Angular single-page applications.
- Support estimates, delivery planning, proof-of-concept work, deployment planning, and transition to operations.
- Identify opportunities to simplify architecture, reuse services, reduce technical debt, improve delivery efficiency, and apply emerging technologies where they add clear value.
- Maintain architecture documentation and communicate decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
- A degree or diploma in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience designing and delivering business applications in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams through the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong knowledge of application architecture, software design principles, integration patterns, API design, microservices, and event-driven applications backed by relational databases.
- Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot services, Angular applications, and containerized applications on OpenShift.
- Experience architecting and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Practical understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, and monitoring.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- The ability to create clear architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the public sector or another regulated environment.
- Experience with Azure architecture and secure cloud operations.
- Experience with enterprise architecture governance.
- Relevant technical certifications.
Technology environment
The architect will guide design and delivery using the software and platforms recorded in the architecture decision log:
- Application: Angular; Java with Spring Boot; Hibernate; Spring Integration; microservices with data segregated by service.
- Integration and APIs: Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka; JSON message contracts; OpenShift Service Mesh; Red Hat Data Grid.
- Cloud and delivery: Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO); Helm; OpenShift Pipelines; Kaniko; Maven; Argo CD; Red Hat Dev Spaces; Red Hat DevHub.
- Data, testing, security, and operations: Azure SQL Database; Flyway; Playwright; Dynatrace; Keycloak.
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $120,000–$170,000. This role is an existing vacancy
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