RQ08881 - Technology Architect - Senior

• 10 years of experience leading multitier application infrastructure design documentation and configuration for medium or large corporate implementations
  
• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods techniques and tools for business architecture such as but not limited to: business functional modeling service lifecycle modeling business event modeling business process mapping value chain analysis and other related disciplines
  
• Experience in completing business architectures in government settings or similar complex multiproject/multiclient organizations
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
  
• Knowledge and experience of information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify ITenabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs
  
• Excellent communication facilitation negotiation consensus building and problemsolving skills
  
• Experience in modeling solution requirements design and components for enterprise scale COTS solutions Oracle Siebel preferred
  
• Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
  
• Provides leadership guidance and support to the project team and subject matter experts; creates and maintains all models/artefacts/diagrams as it relates to establishing a shared use solution.
  
• Analyzes and approves various design and implementation approaches with respect to different interface touch points. Also works with various technical teams while building interface touch points with Siebel.
  
• Evaluates different technology options and makes informed decisions based on cost compatibility and industry best practices; recommends the most suitable technologies that align with the organization s longterm vision
  
• Updates develops and validates all required business architecture and solution/technical architecture models/artefacts documents and materials (according to industry best practices GOITS standards and OPS EA guidelines using the appropriate version)
  
• Collaborates with cluster staff project teams clients and other OPS partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment
  
• Defines the structure and relationship among technical solutions including the identification of reusable components quality level metrics the organization and layering of software and the determination of interfaces.
  
• Leads privacy impact assessment (PIA) and threat risk assessment (TRA) activities in collaboration with cluster staff technical team members and other partners as required; including responding to and/or actioning any risk recommendations or mitigations that may follow
  
• Arranges and facilitates Enterprise Architecture (EA) meetings with cluster staff subject matter experts and other stakeholders as required
  
• Supports the process of acquiring cluster and corporate approvals such as Project Gating LRC cluster governance processes corporate architecture governance points (AGP) digital first assessments
  
• Adhere to all OPS GOITS Standards specifically GOITS 56.0 GOITS 56.1 GOITS 56.3 and others as required
  

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings touchpoints and working sessions with LRC staff
  
• All design development artefacts and source code including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
  
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions
  

Requirements

Business Architecture

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
  
• Demonstrated experience leading and facilitating workshops to gather business and application information including validation and review sessions
  
• Demonstrated experience capturing business requirements conducting business process reengineering business design and optimization; identification of and alignment to business goals as well as business performance measures
  
• Demonstrated ability to leverage latest industry best practices and trends
  
• Hands on experience developing business processes using BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)
  
• Identifying issues and risks to be managed or addressed to facilitate mitigation
  

Technical/Solution Architecture

• 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 enterprise scale COTS / SaaS solutions such as Oracle Siebel
  

Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Methodologies

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in leading and delivering Business Architecture and technical/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
  

Soft Skills

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

MUST HAVES:

• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required business architecture artefacts
  
• Hands on demonstrated experience developing all required application architecture artefacts
  
• Hands on demonstrated experience successfully leading project teams through all levels of governance processes (cluster and corporate) such a project gating architecture governance points
  
• 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