RQ11196 - Technology Architect - Senior

Maarut•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Senior Technology Architect will provide leadership, guidance, and support to project teams and subject matter experts. This role involves creating and maintaining solution architecture models, artifacts, and diagrams according to industry best practices, GO-ITS standards, and OPS EA guidelines. The architect will collaborate with various stakeholders, including cluster staff, project teams, ministry SMEs, and other OPS partners, to ensure architecture alignment. Responsibilities include developing artifacts using cluster/ministry tools, identifying and mitigating issues and risks, facilitating validation sessions, and supporting Agile EA delivery. The role also entails developing reference architecture artifacts for future use, arranging EA meetings, supporting the acquisition of cluster and corporate approvals, providing status updates, and transferring knowledge to identified staff. Adherence to OPS GO-ITS Standards and revision of architectures based on governance body feedback are crucial. The architect will also ensure alignment with OPS Reference Architectures and other relevant business materials.

Requirements

Depth of knowledge in enterprise architecture domains including business, information, application, technology, and security architecture.
Proficiency in architecture frameworks and standards such as TOGAF or Zachman.
Ability to design, integrate, and optimize solution architectures with strong technical problem-solving skills
Demonstrated experience in delivering complex IT solutions and applications, managing systems integrations, and resolving technical and architectural issues.
Proven track record in applying architecture best practices and methodologies
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
10+ years of experience successfully completing solution architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations
Good understanding of diverse business environments, especially government and compliance/regulatory functions
Proven ability to identify and analyze business requirements
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
Demonstrated commitment and proven ability with effective stakeholder management
Experience as a business architect, who has successfully modelled the business at the enterprise and/or core business levels for medium to large organizations
Experience as a solution/application architect who has successfully modelled solution requirements, design and components for enterprise-scale COTS solutions, Oracle Siebel preferred
Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables/artifacts (e.g. models)
Knowledge of Zachman Framework, including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
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, artifacts, 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
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 Azure Cloud
Hands-on experience creating architecture artifacts, models and/or reports using PowerDesigner, or Visio, or other tools
Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in leading and delivering 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
Demonstrated experience with enterprise architecture, including the ability to integrate/align with across all domains (business, information, Solution, technical, security)
Demonstrated experience working within the Ontario Public Service or similar public sector environments, including familiarity with OPS governance, standards (e.g., GO-ITS), and ministry-specific processes.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving 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

Responsibilities

Providing leadership, guidance and support to the project team and subject matter experts; creates and maintains all models/artifacts/diagrams as it relates to establishing a solution
Update, develop and validate all required solution architecture models/artifacts, 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, ministry Subject Matter Expert (SME) and other OPS partners/service providers to ensure architecture alignment
Develops artifacts leveraging cluster/ministry tools and model repository (e.g. PowerDesigner, DevOps)
Identify issues and risks to be managed or addressed, and assist the project team or ministry to facilitate mitigation
Arrange and facilitate validation sessions
Develop/revise solution architecture artifacts according to cluster and corporate guidance
Participate in review and information-sharing meetings
Support Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivery during the project
Develop reference architecture artifacts/models/patterns to enable shared use for future clients
Arrange and facilitate Enterprise Architecture (EA) meetings with cluster staff, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders as required
Support the process of acquiring cluster and corporate approvals, such as Project Gating, LRC cluster governance processes, and corporate architecture governance points (AGP)
Provide status updates to both the project team and the Enterprise Architecture unit
Provide transfer of knowledge and project deliverables to identified cluster staff
Adhere to all OPS GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 200PRS Ontario Public Service Enterprise Architecture Governance Requirements and others as required
Revise architectures per action and/or conditions arising from LRC’s governance body (Project Gating Review Committee) and Corporate EA Governance review bodies as required
Utilize, reuse, and incorporate OPS Reference Architectures into the project architectures
Ensure alignment with any other related and relevant business materials