RQ11348 - Technology Architect - Senior

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)
  
• Work directly with the Ceres lead developer and designated technical staff to validate architecture artefacts, implementation approach and enhancements under active development.
  
• Review relevant source code, configuration, Azure DevOps repositories, CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment documentation, existing architecture/design documentation and deployed environment configurations, subject to approved access.
  
• 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
  

Knowledge Transfer Requirements:

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
  
• All architecture artefacts, models, diagrams, decision records, working files, supporting evidence, configuration documentation and other deliverables created or updated by the resource must be stored in ministry-designated repositories using accessible formats.
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 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
  

Skill Set Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience successfully completing solution architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations
  
• Experience as a solution or application architect who has successfully documented, validated and evolved the architecture of custom-built cloud applications.
  
• Experience with modern web application architecture and technologies, preferably MongoDB, Express.js, React and Node.js, or closely comparable JavaScript, Node.js and NoSQL technologies.
  
• Experience interpreting business capabilities, processes and requirements and using them to inform solution architecture, including the ability to review and incorporate business capability models into applicable architecture deliverables.
  
• Demonstrated experience with information and data architecture, including conceptual and logical data models, metadata, data flows, information exchanges, and authoritative data sources.
  
• Good understanding of diverse business environments, especially government and compliance/regulatory functions
  
• Proven ability to identify and analyze business, functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into practical solution architecture requirements, models and recommendations.
  
• 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 experience managing relationships and resolving issues across multi-stakeholder teams, including business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, developers, project teams, enterprise architects and technical service providers.
  
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables/artifacts (e.g. models), including current-state and target-state architecture, architecture diagrams, solution requirements, information and data models, data flows, API and interface specifications, non-functional requirements and Architecture Decision Records.
  
• Knowledge of the Zachman Framework, including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), applicable WCAG requirements and accessibility considerations for digital applications.
  

Evaluation Criteria:

Application/Solution Architecture:

• 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
  
• 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 custom-built applications using Microsoft Azure platform and cloud services, including integrations with externally hosted managed services where applicable.
  
• Hands-on experience creating architecture artifacts, models and/or reports using PowerDesigner, or Visio, or other tools
  

Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Methodologies:

• 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)
  

Previous OPS experience:

• Experience delivering solutions within the Ontario Public Service (OPS), Broader Public Sector (BPS), or other government environments.
  
• Understanding of OPS governance, approval processes, and decision-making structures.
  
• Experience working with ministries, business stakeholders, and central agencies
  

Soft Skills:

• 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 the team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills
  
• Demonstrated consensus-building skills