RQ10902 Technology Architect Senior

Responsibilities:

• Develops recommends implements and manages the technical architecture (hardware software database and communications) which will be used for all or specific applications in a large distributed cross-platform environment.
  

• 10 years of experience leading multi-tier 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 multi-project/multi-client 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 IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs
  
• Excellent communication facilitation negotiation consensus building and problem-solving 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 organizations long-term vision
  
• Updates develops and validates all required business architecture and solution/technical architecture models/artefacts documents and materials (according to industry best practices GO-ITS 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 re-usable 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 GO-ITS Standards specifically GO-ITS 56.0 GO-ITS 56.1 GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 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
  
• 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 with agile
  
• Excellent analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
  

Skill Set 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 re-engineering 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 decision-making 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