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At Ontario Health we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity inspiration tenacity humility and care.
What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
Fully paid medical dental and vision coverage from your first day
a health care spending or wellness spending account
a premium defined benefit pension plan
three personal days and two float days annually
three weeks vacation to start (for individual contributors) increasing to four weeks after two years
career development opportunities
a collaborative valuesbased team culture
a wellness program
a hybrid working model
participation in Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career Consider this opportunity.
The Lead Network Architect contributes to the development and maturating of Ontario Healths enterprise network program. A strong collaborative working relationship with the leadership team across Digital Excellence in Health (DxH) as well across Ontario Health is essential. As a Lead Network Architect you will play a leading role in ensuring that Ontario Health and partner solutions support the needs of the business. The Lead Network Architect looks at enterprisewide solutions while planning and designingdata communication networks and is responsible for leading change initiatives as well as supporting the of our Network and Network Security roadmap for the organization. The Lead Network Architect will also be responsible for mentoring Architects and Senior Architects by elevating their scope of knowledge and breadth of aspects of solution architecture.
The Lead Network Architect will coordinate direct and design activities and provides guidance to project architect(s) throughout the project lifecycle. The Lead Network Architect develops advocates and champions Ontario Healths Enterprise Architecture vision by providing architecture and solution design expertise and guidance internally to local and provincewide health care organizations and delivery partners to facilitate information sharing across the health sector in support of provincial mandates organizational and health system goals. The Lead Network Architect leads large complex initiatives ensuring alignment between strategies and operational initiatives. The Lead Network Architect contributes advocates for and ensures alignment of complex multiorganization stakeholder initiatives to Ontario Healths enterprise architecture Lead Network Architect collaborates with program leadership to define goals and objectives for the program while ensuring solutions proposed are compliant with our privacy and security policies.
Here is what you will be doing:
- Responsible for creating architectures roadmaps and plans for the interconnection of multiple Ontario Health products and services in the context of Provincial system integrations and overall Provincial strategic objectives.
- Assists the managers to guide team direction and goals.
- Contributes to the provincial vision and overall architecture blueprints.
- Develops maintains and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice toward the betterment of Ontario Health Ontario and Canada wide health system IT architecture practice.
- Guides and influences portfolios and partners to align solutions to Ontario Healths digital vision considering provincial national and international mandates.
- Identify design and evaluate network and network security initiatives to support Enterprise Networks including LAN WAN WiFi Provincial WAN Public Cloud (AWS/Azure) and Private cloud (Data Center) solutions.
- Research and stay current with advancements in network and network security technologies.
- Develop network flow models that align with target product architectures.
- Regularly assess and update network architecture to address operational network and network security challenges as well as design deficiencies with holistic solutions.
- Update and maintain roadmaps for network and network security technologies focusing on modernization and technical currency.
- Assess costs and labor for network and network security hardware to support potential projects/initiatives.
- Develop a robust zone interface security architecture (FW/IDS/IPS perimeter/edge defense) and centralize firewall/ZIP management strategy.
- Produce documentation of networks including drawings descriptions and configurations.
- Formulate an information security strategy within Network Services including packet/log/metadata analytics and event correlation.
- Collaborate with business units application owners operational teams and executives to provide technical and business expertise.
- Ensure the security of enterprise infrastructure and compliance with relevant security standards (PII HIPAA).
- Understands and translates tactical and operational business requirements into effective architectures and solution designs.
- Resolves business rules information and application conflicts involving shared services applications and resources.
- Develops architecture processes procedures templates etc. and provides assistance to others.
- Directs trains mentors and coaches transformation customer value and product/service team members and functional experts to grow capabilities and key skills.
- Promotes a culture of engagement that develops and motivates teams by fostering an inclusive work environment collaboration communicating architecture vision and strategies.
- Works with project/product/portfolio management support roadmaps and architectural alignment to ensure delivery of project product portfolio objectives.
- Maintains architecture service quality at the Product and Service Level within the specialty domain. (e.g. EHR Identity Management Infrastructure Data).
- Collaborates with guides and mentors senior junior and peer architects by elevating their breadth and scope of knowledge of solution architecture the Healthcare domain architecture patterns and best practices supporting the practice of architecture and supporting the development of solution architecture models and documentation and fostering a culture of innovation and creativity.
- Provides guidance on project work in a domain by communicating and guiding consumers and projects from assets business and technical aspects.
- Develops visionary solutions as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them for complex provincial and regional initiatives that meet customer needs and timelines while adhering to overall enterprise architecture vision and organizational business plans.
- Reduces current and future costs across local provincial and national initiatives by identifying misalignments duplication of efforts and other opportunities for improvement in the architecture and escalates proposes and drives to delivery practical efficient and reusable solutions.
- Consults on advises and influences provincial project planning by identifying architecturally significant crossproject and system dependencies to ensure target delivery dates are realistic and meet Ontarians expectations.
- Reduces duplication of effort cost overruns and impacts on timeline by identifying championing and influencing strategic and tactical business and IT opportunities; leads business and IT transformation initiatives to their realization; maximizes outcomes by balancing cost quality and time to production.
- Assesses and identifies crossproduct gaps and opportunities for reuse and/or alignment and advocates for solutions to address gaps with product owners maximizing reuse and alignment.
- Builds sustainable trusted relationships with stakeholders partners colleagues and superiors.
- Acts as subject matter expert to internal stakeholders in specialized areas such as laboratories digital identity data etc.
- Acts as single point of contact for Ontario Health partners to support understanding the network use cases and architecture of specific Ontario Health products and services.
- Works with internal and external (regional provincial) stakeholders to understand business needs across Ontario Health and their impact on specific products/portfolios.
- Assists clients in defining nonfunctional requirements such as application and solution management sharing and reuse.
- Identifies and escalates issues and works with clients to ensure adherence to application management and quality standards.
- Provides thought leadership across the Ontario Health business areas and the province.
- Guides and influences project/product/portfolio teams to align and build with an eye to Ontario Healths architectural vision and principles.
- Contributes to roadmaps and product vision.
- Provides alternative solutions options and recommendations to address business and technical challenges.
- Identifies gaps risks and dependencies in project/product/portfolio deliverables and roadmaps provide guidance for planning and delivery to address gaps continuous service improvements and risks.
- Works on provincial systems with many stakeholders and varied interests (e.g. physicians specialty care community care etc..
- Frequently engages with Ministry of Health peers and colleagues outside of Ontario Health.
- Drives change within their domain/product/portfolio.
- Directs and influences business and technical decisions and processes using knowledge of future vision and influencing and guiding solutions to align to enterprise vision and roadmaps.
- Solves complex problems that span multiple assets and promotes architecture patterns and principles to ensure reusability and maintainability.
- Makes decisions where results have critical impact across the organization requiring sophisticated solutions and longterm correction.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent working experience in Information Technology is required.
- Network and Network Security industry certifications from Cisco (e.g. CCIE CCNP CCDP) Checkpoint Palo Alto AWS Azure and/or F5.
- 7 10 years in an IT environment as an Architect on a broad range of products/services/technology/health care domains.
- Experience with modern enterprise network and network security solutions Data center network and Wide Area Network architectures using software defined networking principles leveraging technologies like Cisco ACI SDWAN Checkpoint Maestro etc.
- Experience recommending specific network models and usecases.
- Experience with the development and maintenance of roadmaps for network and network security technologies focusing on modernization and technical currency.
- Ability to do cost analysis and prepare proposals with budgetary figures on network replacements.
- Experience with process development and network automation.
- Experience with optimizing network and network security performance and continuous improvement
- Proficiency with Microsoft collaboration tools (i.e. Visio Word PowerPoint Excel PowerBI CoPilot Teams etc.
- Experience as a subject matter expert involved in daytoday technical and business work representing asset(s) in discussions for broader solutions and guiding integration with/use of system/ domain.
- Astute understanding of Ontario Health business goals and mandate and how it applies to the provincial health care system.
- Expert knowledge of Ontario Health and the broader Ontario health care sector IT systems to ensure product dependencies are identified and managed.
- Broad knowledge on a variety of architectural disciplines (such as Business Application Information Infrastructure Privacy and Security).
- Broad knowledge of service management controls and architecture frameworks such as ITIL PMBOK COBIT Zachman TOGAF Rational and/or Agile.
- Broad knowledge of Legislative boundaries and privacy regulations unique to Ontario and Canada.
- Broad knowledge of complex geographical multilingual and multiequity considerations specific to Ontario.
- Broad knowledge of patient safety considerations.
- Broad knowledge of Public Sector procurement legislation policies and practices.
- Knowledge of network automation tools
Knowledge and Skills
- Experience in network design implementation and automation.
- Knowledge of routing switching and security technologies.
- Ability to manage and document network infrastructure components such as servers routers and switches.
- Familiarity with network assessment and design tools.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills to identify gaps and opportunities within domains sectors and/or solutions and drive improvement and efficiency; create strategies to mitigate various types of business privacy security and financial risks; define and drive alternative solutions to meet business and technical problems across teams portfolios and products; influence provincial project planning by identifying architecturally significant crossproject and system dependencies.
- Strong communications skills both oral and written to engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs: facilitate negotiate and communicate in support of internal and external partner engagement at the local provincial level and delivering presentation material designing documents and/or training material for both technical and nontechnical audiences and drive to consensus between internal stakeholders with conflicting goals and priorities; communicate to internal and external executives business domain stakeholders and technical staff.
- Ability to understand disparate health IT systems place in the Health System and compare and contrast solutions and patterns to recommend/propose efficient and effective architectures and solutions.
- Ability to work at a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.
- Ability to collaborate with internal peers and local programs to ensure alignment of architecture practices patterns and solutions.
- Ability to stay current on business strategy and assess new trends with respect to Ontario Healths business needs and identify opportunities impacts and transformations required to realize their value and assess their implications on the future state of specific products or portfolios.
- Ability to stay abreast of provincial national and international business technology architecture and solution design trends.
- Ability to work with internal and external (regional provincial national international) stakeholders to understand business needs across OH and trends in IT across the broader health system as they relate to specific products or portfolios.
- Ability to collaborate with external organizations both public and private (e.g. Government Organizations (e.g. Ministry of Health Canada Health Infoway) Health Care Organizations (e.g. Health Care Providers Hospitals Administrators etc. Software Vendors (e.g. EMR Vendors HIS vendors) Independent Health Facilities (Laboratories Imaging Centres etc. to ensure alignment of architecture practices patterns and solutions.
- Business focused and technically savvy with the ability to communicate to internal and external executives business domain stakeholders and technical staff alike to build consensus and resolve both business and technical conflicts.
- Ability to understand and translate strategic tactical and operational business requirements into effective architecture and designs.
- Ability to interpret and apply IT privacy and security standards principles and regulations applicable to the health care sector (such as FIPPA PHIPA) in development of architecture solutions.
- Ability to interpret and apply health information management principles to digital health care systems and to leverage health care interoperability standards such as HL7 V2 or FHIR in development of architecture solutions.
- Ability to work on prioritize and deliver multiple projects/initiatives according to agreedupon timelines amidst constantly changing priorities.
- Ability to define requirements for execute and participate in public sector fair procurement processes.
- Ability to make decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization.
- Emotional intelligence is required within and across portfolios.
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Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)
Employment Type:
Permanent Full timeContract Length:
N/ASalary Band:
Band 7External Application Deadline Date:
All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations Mtis Inuit and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members ofBlack and racializedgroups; 2SLGBTQIA communities; trans and nonbinary individuals;and people living with disabilities.
Ontario Health is an accessible employer and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process please email and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.
Employment Type
Full-Time
