Senior Technology Architect - Contract

About Compugen Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

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If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Technology Architect to lead the design, development, implementation, and management of technical architectures within a large, distributed, cross-platform environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for defining architecture across hardware, software, databases, communications, middleware, and security technologies. A key focus of this role will be Zero Trust architecture, Layer 7/API gateway technologies, and IT security strategy and governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, recommend, implement, and manage enterprise-level technical architectures across complex, distributed environments.
• Design secure systems and architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles and security best practices.
• Provide architecture leadership for CA Gateway and other Layer 7 gateway technologies.
• Develop and support IT security strategies, architecture standards, governance frameworks, and technology controls.
• Assess business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture solutions.
• Define appropriate hardware, software, database, middleware, communications, and infrastructure environments for enterprise applications.
• Lead technical architecture activities across multiple platforms, operating systems, database technologies, environments, and communications protocols.
• Design and document conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models, processes, and data models.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the design, development, implementation, and integration of enterprise applications and systems.
• Evaluate system performance, scalability, availability, security, and integration requirements across different technology environments.
• Provide architectural guidance related to middleware, gateways, APIs, application integrations, and enterprise services.
• Develop enterprise architecture deliverables, including architecture models, standards, roadmaps, and supporting documentation.
• Apply structured methodologies and architectural practices throughout the solution design and implementation lifecycle.
• Design and support processes aligned with ITIL methodologies, providing guidance and direction to technical teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture and reporting requirements.
• Perform systems analysis and design within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, security practices, and architectural approaches and recommend appropriate adoption strategies.
• Collaborate with business, security, infrastructure, application, and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions align with organizational standards and objectives.
• Provide technical leadership, recommendations, and architectural direction to project and delivery teams.
  
  
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• Develop, recommend, implement, and manage enterprise-level technical architectures across complex, distributed environments.
• Design secure systems and architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles and security best practices.
• Provide architecture leadership for CA Gateway and other Layer 7 gateway technologies.
• Develop and support IT security strategies, architecture standards, governance frameworks, and technology controls.
• Assess business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture solutions.
• Define appropriate hardware, software, database, middleware, communications, and infrastructure environments for enterprise applications.
• Lead technical architecture activities across multiple platforms, operating systems, database technologies, environments, and communications protocols.
• Design and document conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models, processes, and data models.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the design, development, implementation, and integration of enterprise applications and systems.
• Evaluate system performance, scalability, availability, security, and integration requirements across different technology environments.
• Provide architectural guidance related to middleware, gateways, APIs, application integrations, and enterprise services.
• Develop enterprise architecture deliverables, including architecture models, standards, roadmaps, and supporting documentation.
• Apply structured methodologies and architectural practices throughout the solution design and implementation lifecycle.
• Design and support processes aligned with ITIL methodologies, providing guidance and direction to technical teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture and reporting requirements.
• Perform systems analysis and design within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, security practices, and architectural approaches and recommend appropriate adoption strategies.
• Collaborate with business, security, infrastructure, application, and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions align with organizational standards and objectives.
• Provide technical leadership, recommendations, and architectural direction to project and delivery teams.
  
  
  

Equity Statement At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table-and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality.

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