Position Description
The Senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant owns and governs the end to end target state architecture for a large scale enterprise modernization and legacy transition program. The role translates business strategy into solution architecture and facilitates collaboration across the corporate ecosystem to deliver business outcomes.
The role leads solution architecture, design, and analysis across digital services, application development, data, integration, cloud, security, DevOps, and operations. The role defines architectural patterns and roadmaps that support modern applications and services, and the transition of legacy capabilities while maintaining continuity of business operations.
The Senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant provides technical leadership to senior engineers and stream architects, balancing near term delivery needs with long term architectural integrity. The role ensures solutions are scalable, performant, secure, compliant, and reusable. The architectural patterns, service designs, standards, and governance models established for this flagship program are intended to become foundational assets for future transformation initiatives.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Governance
- Facilitate collaboration across business and technology teams to deliver business outcomes within the corporate ecosystem.
- Translate business strategy, service needs, and program objectives into solution architectures, application design strategies, and technology roadmaps.
- Lead solution architecture, design, and analysis across the program's applications, platforms, data, and integration services.
- Design technology agnostic data integrations, automations, application interfaces, APIs, and service contracts.
- Perform impact analysis for proposed architecture changes, including effects on applications, data, interfaces, security, operations, and delivery plans.
- Prepare and maintain required solution architecture artifacts, including current and target state views, solution designs, standards, roadmaps, and architecture decisions.
- Align solutions with the enterprise architecture framework, principles, standards, and controls.
- Participate in solution assessments and technology selection, evaluating alignment with business outcomes, enterprise direction, security, cost, delivery needs, and operational requirements.
- Monitor solution development and provide design oversight, mentorship, and guidance to delivery teams.
- Establish governance practices that support consistent architecture decisions across workstreams and future initiatives.
Target State Architecture and Legacy Transition
- Define and govern the end to end target state architecture bridging legacy mainframe systems, ESB, and native AWS cloud services.
- Guide the transition of legacy applications, data, and capabilities to modern platforms while maintaining service continuity.
- Define migration, coexistence, reconciliation, synchronization, cutover, rollback, and decommissioning approaches.
- Establish integration patterns across mainframe technologies and cloud services.
- Define interface and messaging contracts, service boundaries, data flows, versioning, error handling, recovery, and operational ownership.
- Ensure transition designs address data quality, privacy, security, performance, auditability, and business readiness.
Digital Modernization and Application Architecture
- Guide the architecture and design of modern customer facing and internal applications and services.
- Ensure application designs support accessibility, usability, availability, performance, security, maintainability, and interoperability.
- Define reusable application, API, and service patterns that enable modular development and consistent delivery across business capabilities.
- Work with business, product, user experience, engineering, and operations teams to turn service requirements into implementable architecture.
- Balance incremental application delivery with the longer term modernization roadmap, including dependencies on legacy systems and data.
- Define software delivery strategies appropriate for a large organization operating across hybrid on premises and cloud environments.
Identity Resolution, Data, and Search Architecture
- Establish architectural patterns for high performance identity clustering and the unification and reconciliation of customer and organizational data.
- Guide Python based matching services and related data processing, validation, and stewardship patterns.
- Define OpenSearch based indexing and query patterns that support relevant, performant, and explainable search capabilities.
- Ensure identity, matching, and search designs address data ownership, quality, lineage, privacy, security, scalability, and operational support.
- Align data and search architecture with upstream integration patterns and downstream application and business needs.
Cross Layer Alignment, Cloud, DevOps, and Operations
- Ensure architectural alignment across integration, data, security, application, cloud, DevOps, and operational layers.
- Define secure, resilient, and compliant cloud architectures, with a preference for AWS and experience across hybrid on premises and cloud environments.
- Guide the appropriate use of AWS services, including API Gateway, Lambda, messaging, storage, database, networking, and monitoring capabilities.
- Integrate architecture with software delivery practices, including automated build, test, deployment, infrastructure management, and environment promotion.
- Address identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, monitoring, disaster recovery, business continuity, availability, and capacity.
- Align solutions with enterprise IT standards and controls, IT service management practices, and ITIL principles.
Executive Advisory and Practice Leadership
- Act as a principal advisor to client stakeholders and executive leadership, translating complex modernization and migration strategies into secure, compliant, and high value business initiatives.
- Explain architectural options, risks, dependencies, and trade offs clearly to executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Provide technical leadership, design oversight, and mentorship to senior engineers, solution architects, and stream leads.
- Foster communities of practice across cloud, DevOps, application development, data, and middleware architecture.
- Document reusable architectural patterns, service designs, standards, and governance models to build capability across future transformation initiatives.
- Assess emerging technologies, including AI, machine learning, and robotic process automation, for their relevance to business outcomes, architecture, and delivery.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
- Experience developing and governing solution or enterprise architecture for large scale implementation and modernization programs.
- Experience spanning digital modernization, application development, platform delivery, and legacy system or data transition.
- In depth knowledge of enterprise architecture disciplines, including business, application, data, cloud, integration, security, and operations architecture.
- In depth knowledge of application development technologies and frameworks, including web, client server, multi tier, database, API, and middleware technologies.
- Advanced experience architecting secure, resilient, and compliant solutions on AWS. Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms is also valuable.
- Experience designing hybrid architecture that connect on premises and cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, data integrations, APIs, messaging, and middleware such as IBM ACE and IBM MQ.
- Experience with data migration, identity resolution, matching, clustering, or enterprise search. Experience with Python based services and OpenSearch is an asset.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle methods, including Waterfall, Agile, incremental delivery, rapid prototyping, and DevOps.
- Familiarity with modeling languages and approaches such as UML and ArchiMate.
- Understanding of emerging technologies, including AI, machine learning, and robotic process automation.
- Understanding of high level disaster recovery planning and implementation, IT standards and controls, IT service management, and ITIL.
- Strong communication, facilitation, problem solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architectural direction, align diverse teams, mentor senior technical staff, and establish reusable engineering practices.
Education and Experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 15 or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, principal engineering, or senior technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success leading large scale architecture and modernization initiatives in complex corporate or public sector environments.
- Experience developing architecture standards, roadmaps, governance practices, or communities of practice that are adopted across multiple initiatives.
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,000 - $185,000.
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