Technology Architect

Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

Job Title: Technology Architect - Senior

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Duration: 5+ Months (plus extension)

Client: Public Sector

Pay Rate: CAD 90- 115/Hour + HST

Application/Solution Architecture – 50%

• Depth of knowledge in enterprise architecture domains, including business, information, application, technology, and security architecture. Proficiency in architecture frameworks and standards such as TOGAF or Zachman. Ability to design, integrate, and optimize solution architectures with strong technical problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex IT solutions and applications, managing systems integrations, and resolving technical and architectural issues. Proven track record in applying architecture best practices and methodologies
• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts
• Hands on demonstrated experience leading all aspects of solution design, including security and privacy
• Experience architecting custom-built applications using Microsoft Azure platform and cloud services, including integrations with externally hosted managed services where applicable.
• Hands-on experience creating architecture artifacts, models and/or reports using PowerDesigner, or Visio, or other tools

Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Methodologies – 20%

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in leading and delivering solution Architecture projects
• Hands on demonstrated experience successfully leading project teams through all levels of governance processes (cluster and corporate) such a project gating, architecture governance points
• Hands on demonstrated experience preparing and delivering presentations to cluster and corporate architecture review boards to successful obtain approvals
• Experience leading project teams through the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process, Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) process and other technical or security assessment processes as required
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise architecture, including the ability to integrate/align with across all domains (business, information, Solution, technical, security)

Previous OPS experience - 20%

• Experience delivering solutions within the Ontario Public Service (OPS), Broader Public Sector (BPS), or other government environments.
• Understanding of OPS governance, approval processes, and decision-making structures.
• Experience working with ministries, business stakeholders, and central agencies

Soft Skills - 10%

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to the team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated consensus-building skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• 10+ years of experience successfully completing solution architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations
• Experience as a solution or application architect who has successfully documented, validated and evolved the architecture of custom-built cloud applications.
• Experience with modern web application architecture and technologies, preferably MongoDB, Express.js, React and Node.js, or closely comparable JavaScript, Node.js and NoSQL technologies.
• Experience interpreting business capabilities, processes and requirements and using them to inform solution architecture, including the ability to review and incorporate business capability models into applicable architecture deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience with information and data architecture, including conceptual and logical data models, metadata, data flows, information exchanges, and authoritative data sources.
• Good understanding of diverse business environments, especially government and compliance/regulatory functions
• Proven ability to identify and analyze business, functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into practical solution architecture requirements, models and recommendations.
• Knowledge and experience of information technology, providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus-building, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience managing relationships and resolving issues across multi-stakeholder teams, including business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, developers, project teams, enterprise architects and technical service providers.
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables/artifacts (e.g. models), including current-state and target-state architecture, architecture diagrams, solution requirements, information and data models, data flows, API and interface specifications, non-functional requirements and Architecture Decision Records.
• Knowledge of the Zachman Framework, including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), applicable WCAG requirements and accessibility considerations for digital applications.

If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

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