Senior Technology Architect

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• nalyzes and approves various design and implementation approaches with respect to different interface touch points.
• lso 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 organization's 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 Government EA guidelines using the appropriate version).
• Collaborates with cluster staff, project teams, clients and other Government partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment.
• Defines the structure and relationship among technical solutions, including the identification of reusable 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.
• rranges 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.
• dhere to all Government GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 56.0, GO-ITS 56.1, GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Business Architecture - 20%:

• 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 - 40%:

• 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 - 20%:

• 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 - 20%:

• Experience with agile.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills, 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 and Demonstrated consensus building skil.ls