IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist - Senior

ITProFound Inc • Toronto, ON

31d • Onsite

About The Position

The Province of Ontario is seeking an experienced IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist - Senior to provide architecture support to delivery teams. This role involves ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and TSA, conducting technology assessments, and creating architecture roadmaps. The position requires developing, recommending, implementing, and managing the IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and deliverables for the organization. Responsibilities include analyzing and evaluating modernization strategies, contributing to EA standards and artifacts, and identifying enterprise platforms and technology stacks that support a modular/composable architecture approach. The role requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to create organizational policies and standards.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience as an architect - working on various platforms.
• Strong technical background - however this is not an application/solution architecture role.
• Ability to deal with various stakeholders.
• Ability to create policy and standards from an organization perspective.
• Understanding of EA frameworks, platform and products.
• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of Enterprise Architecture.
• Knowledge and experience in Application architecture, Technology Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Experience and knowledge in Project Management.
• Experience conducting technology assessments, performing fit-gap analyses, developing architecture roadmaps, and producing architectural artifacts to support project delivery, alongside contributing to reference architectures, guidance, and templates.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture support to delivery teams across assigned projects and initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and TSA.
• Conduct technology assessments and fit-gap analyses to evaluate solution options and recommend optimal approaches.
• Create and maintain architecture roadmaps that support program and project objectives while advancing enterprise alignment.
• Develops recommends, implements and manages IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and architect deliverables for the organization.
• Provide analysis, development and evaluation of new government-wide modernization strategies, plans and TSA direction, to identify needs for new technology and architecture standards and guidelines.
• Contribute to EA standards and artifacts templates where required, based on lessons learned from project delivery and emerging needs.
• Contribute to the creation of enterprise-wide enterprise architecture standards, and guideline to support standardized practices, unify technologies, common technology stacks, share frameworks, methodologies, and patterns.
• Identify enterprise platforms, products, and technology stacks using common patterns and services that leverage a modular/composable architecture approach for standardization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed