RQ09811 - Int. IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Posting language
- English
Original job description
RQ09811 - Int. IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist
Toronto - Jarvis St. - On-site/hybrid
- From October 20, 2025, the candidate is required to work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day from home
- From January 5, 2026, the candidate is required to work onsite 5 days a week fully
Contract 5 months, possible extension
Ideal resume should be no longer then 7 pages.
Key deliverables for this role include, but are not limited to following:
- Architecture Artifacts
- Development of current state and target state architecture models across business, data, application, and technology domains.
- Creation of solution blueprints, reference architectures, and architecture patterns aligned with OPS standards.
- Architecture Review Documentation
- Preparation of materials for Architecture Review Board (ARB) or equivalent governance bodies such as AI Governance.
- Documentation of compliance assessments with GO-ITS standards, privacy, security, and accessibility requirements.
- EA Governance Contributions
- Support for EA governance processes, including tracking decisions, risks, and exceptions.
- Contribution to EA repositories and knowledge bases (e.g., EA SharePoint, modeling tools).
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitation of architecture working sessions with ministry stakeholders, I&IT clusters, and GovTechON.
- Development of communication materials to explain architectural decisions and trade-offs.
- Technology and Data Strategy Alignment
- Mapping of business capabilities to technology solutions.
- Identification of opportunities for reuse, consolidation, or modernization of systems and platforms.
- Risk and Impact Assessments and Compliance Reports
- Execution of RkAP (Recordkeeping, Access, and Privacy) assessments.
- Identification and documentation of technical risks, interoperability challenges, and security gaps.
- Regular reports addressing privacy, security and data integrity risks, with recommended action plans
- System Integration Plans and Roadmaps
- Roadmaps and plans detailing the integration of legacy systems, and inter-agency data-sharing strategies.
- Clearly defined milestones and performance metrics for successful implementation.
- Performance & Scalability Reports
- Continuous performance monitoring reports, including recommendations for optimizations to ensure the architecture remains future-proof
Must-Have's:
- Prior OPS experience with Enterprise architecture governance
- Preparation of materials for Architecture Review Board (ARB) or equivalent governance bodies such as AI Governance - specifically AGP 1/2
- Experience with artefacts prior (current state, solution blueprints, reference architecture, solution architecture documents, etc.)
- TRA experience and cyber security standards.
- GO-ITS standards (security)
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Enterprise Architect will create architecture models, blueprints and review documents for Ontario government ministries. They will also run architecture working sessions with stakeholders and plan how legacy systems are integrated and modernized.
Requirements
Candidates need prior OPS experience with enterprise architecture governance and Architecture Review Board materials, such as AGP 1/2. They also need experience with architecture artifacts, TRA, cybersecurity and GO-ITS security standards.
Skills
- Enterprise architecture governance
- Architecture Review Board materials
- AGP 1/2
- Current state and target state architecture modeling
- Solution blueprints
- Reference architectures
- TRA
- Cyber security standards
- GO-ITS security standards
- Privacy and accessibility compliance
- RkAP assessments
- Risk and impact assessment
- System integration roadmaps
- Interoperability analysis
- Inter-agency data sharing
- Performance and scalability reporting
- Architecture modeling tools
- EA SharePoint
- Stakeholder facilitation
- Technical communication
Categories
- Consulting
- Government & Public Sector
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- Enterprise Architect
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architect
- Architecture Review Board
- ARB
- AI Governance
- AGP
- GO-ITS
- TRA
- Cyber security
- Privacy compliance
- RkAP
- Reference architecture
- Solution blueprint
- Current state architecture
- Target state architecture
- Legacy integration
- Ontario Public Service
- OPS
- Government IT
Seniority
Mid level
Tools
- EA SharePoint
- Architecture modeling tools
Languages
- English