Technical Architect

DIGITAL ARCHITECT – SENIOR | JP1022

Two-Year Contract | Edmonton, Alberta | Onsite 5 Days per Week

VStream Labs Inc. is seeking a Senior Digital Architect for a two-year enterprise digital-transformation project.

ENGAGEMENT

• Onsite in Edmonton, five days per week.

• 8:15 AM–4:30 PM MT; 7.25 hours per day, 36.25 hours per week.

• Enhanced Security Clearance and background/criminal record checks required.

• Equipment provided; privacy and security awareness training required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead enterprise and solution architecture across business, application, data, integration, security and technology domains.

• Develop current- and target-state roadmaps, standards, patterns, guardrails, reusable components and architecture decision records.

• Assess feasibility, operational readiness, risks, dependencies and architectural trade-offs; support architecture governance and Architecture Review Board reviews.

• Lead and mentor technical teams; review designs, implementations, integrations, deployments and configurations.

• Support cloud, DevOps, automation, CI/CD and environment management.

• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discovery; document requirements, process models, user stories, impact assessments and delivery plans.

• Provide architecture oversight for Application Management Services; support incident/problem reviews, change advisory processes, releases and production readiness.

• Reduce technical debt and improve reliability; transition applications into sustainable support operations.

• Evaluate vendor deliverables, proposals and estimates; support procurement, statements of work, knowledge transfer and compliance assessments.

• Define architecture for analytics, data integration, reporting and AI-enabled services, with secure AI adoption and data governance.

• Produce architecture diagrams, executive briefings and recommendations; promote reuse, standardization and modernization.

MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS

• College or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• TOGAF certification.

• 8+ years leading cross-functional agile product teams, providing architectural direction and mentoring developers/technical leads.

• 5+ years architecting, managing and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

• 8+ years assessing requirements across business, application, technology, data/information, security and privacy architecture domains.

• 7+ years documenting application architectures in large, complex enterprise IT environments.

• 7+ years planning, designing, implementing and supporting enterprise platform solutions.

• 8+ years providing leadership, planning, estimating and presenting solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years collaborating with data architects, engineers and analysts on cloud architecture.

• 5+ years developing application architecture standards and guidelines.

• 5+ years designing or maintaining solutions using enterprise Master Data Management hub architecture registries.

• 5+ years developing enterprise solutions using amCharts.

• 5+ years developing enterprise mobile solutions.

• 5+ years working with OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security Flaws.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Attach your resume. Clearly demonstrate required experience under the relevant jobs/projects, with dates in MMM/YYYY to MMM/YYYY format. Three professional references for similar work will be required, most recent first.