RQ10469 Applications Architect Senior

Assignment Deliverables:

• To provide a leadership role for the technology architecture design and build of a digital data gateway digital credentials and related products and integration services.
  
• To design and maintain a complex API-based solutions and transaction system in on-prem data centre and cloud.
  
• Work with ministry/OPS staff to lead the development of key (technology) architecture artefacts to support the architectural gating process.
  
• Development of an implementation roadmap and options for digital data gateway and digital credentials products that takes into consideration the requisite components technology required/involved ministry readiness market readiness and maturity; develop short term tactical and longer term strategic implantation plans and option.
  
• Identify and evaluate commercially ready products and open source solutions that are viable for use and implementation; including assessment and recommendations of products.
  
• Work with product teams to develop the technology requirements and to ensure alignment towards the enterprise solution approach and roadmap.
  
• Lead and work with technical and product development engineers to develop functional proofs of concept pilot implementations and/or final product implementations of solutions that align with the enterprise digital standards.
  
• Expert leading multi-disciplinary distributed teams to solution delivery utilizing collaboration platforms project planning estimation and agile delivery methodology.
  
• Provide technology advice and recommendations to executives management and product teams working on digital data gateway solutions; prepare communications/briefing material as required to effectively communicate recommendations and/or findings from assessments.
  
• Provide expertise and guidance to ministry partners product policy and technical implementation teams regarding use adoption and alignment with industry standards to maximize interoperability and avoid product lock-in; develop recommendations for adoption of standards and related frameworks for digital data gateway.
  

General Skills:

• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical architectures at the specified experience level.
  
• Experience with middleware and API-based gateway solutions.
  
• Experience with microservice architecture RESTful APIs and legacy SOAP services.
  
• Experience with code version control systems (e.g. Git) DevOps practices cloud delivery/deployment models virtualization and container solutions (e.g. docker Kubernetes).
  
• Development experience with Java/Spring Boot NodeJS etc.
  
• Experience with handling of database technologies.
  
• Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments.
  
• Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments.
  
• Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL and is able to guide others using this methodology.
  
• Experience translating business requirements into reporting needs.
  
• Experience preparing conceptual logical and/or physical processes and data models.
  
• Experience developing recommending implementing and managing technical architecture.
  
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 10 years in designing and developing enterprise technology solutions in complex environments with experience in both public/broader public and private sectors.
  
• Expertise in designing building and supporting micro services architecture in on-prem and Azure public cloud (RedHat OpenShift).
  
• Understand DevOps build and deploy processes with Jenkins and IBM UrbanCode.
  
• Able to provide production support for API based solution in containerized platform provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) report and conduct postmortem for the production incidents.
  
• Extensive hands-on experience in developing RESTful API and knowledge of legacy SOAP.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical:

• Demonstrated technology leadership and vision - develop socialize and obtain buy in for multi-year technology roadmaps and must include recent example involving APIs based digital gateway solutions.
  
• 10 years in designing and developing enterprise technology solutions in complex environments with experience in both public/broader public and private sectors.
  
• Expertise in designing building and supporting micro services architecture in on-prem and Azure public cloud (RedHat OpenShift).
  
• Working knowledge of SQL programming in Oracle 19C environment.
  
• Understand DevOps build and deploy processes with Jenkins and IBM UrbanCode.
  
• Extensive hands-on experience in developing RESTful API and knowledge of legacy SOAP.
  
• Expert knowledge in designing and developing solutions using programming languages such as Java Spring Boot NodeJS etc.
  
• Leading technical software engineers through the design process demonstrating examples through functional code development and providing production support for the API based solutions.
  
• Experience leading architecture teams and delivery of key design artifacts - including solution requirements and solution architecture documents.
  
• Mange global development teams - team building through project delivery use of collaboration platforms and agile project delivery.
  
• Excellent written and illustration/design skills to formulate technical documentation; evaluation and comparison documents and recommendations for management decision.
  
• Excellent verbal and presentation capability to brief senior management and executives on various components of the technical design architecture and/or solution components.
  

Analysis:

• Identify and evaluate commercially ready products and open-source solutions that are viable for use and implementation; including assessment and recommendations of products and demonstrating benefits and opportunities.
  
• Understands emerging technologies trends and directions including standards and frameworks.
  
• Analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
  
• Able to provide production support for API based solution in containerized platform provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) report and conduct postmortem for the production incidents.
  

Leadership Skills:

• Able to organize lead and manage day to day task for team members develop/assign tasks.
  
• Able to organize and prioritize work items for self and team members in a rapid and agile work environment setting.
  
• Use agile methodologies for the analysis design development and implementation of applications in large complex environments.
  
• Establish collaborative work environments provide mentoring to diverse staff and project team members.
  

Communications and Reporting:

• Able to develop reports/presentations for various audience types ranging from technical experts non-technical policy analysts to executives.
  
• Develop and articulate options and recommendations for management and executive level decision makers.
  
• Communications and interpersonal skills.