Senior Solution Architect; Portfolio Modernization

Job

Job Title:

Upcoming Role, Senior Solution Architect (Application Portfolio Modernization)

Location:

Peel Region, Ontario

Employment Type:

Hybrid (minimum 2 days onsite per week)
Salary: $96.50 per hour (contractors must be incorporated)
Duration: 1 year (with potential 12‑month extension)
Hours of Work (billable): 7 hours per day (35 hours per week)
Closing Date:
June 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

The Application Portfolio Modernization (APM) Program is a risk and compliance initiative designed to proactively measure and manage the Region’s technology application portfolio and effectively reduce the risks of security and technical failure. Reporting to the Enterprise Architect, the Senior Solution Architect is responsible for supporting the APM Program within the IT Solutions division.

• Collaboratively defines and regularly updates and maintains meaningful metrics that reflect the condition level of software applications, i.e., their technical and functional state of positive repair, and alignment with Peel's digital strategy and target state architecture.
• Recommends specific upgrade, maintain, replacement, or retirement actions to ensure that all applications stay above the desired condition level, and control and measurably reduce the application portfolio’s overall technical debt.
• Actively collaborates with IT Solutions leadership and relevant Corporate Services and client stakeholders to:
  • Provide technology roadmaps and strategic planning in support of evolving APS program goals and objectives.
  • Provide application assessment work and recommendations for effective short- and medium-term Application Portfolio upgrade and replacement projects, including recommended phased approaches to align with more complex long-term technology transitions.
• Creates solution design documents and collaboratively provides direction and oversight for effective and secure solutions, ensuring robust interoperability with other relevant regional systems, and conformance to the Corporate Services quality assurance, IT security and enterprise architecture principles, and to the Client's Digital Strategy.
• Reviews related requirements and configuration documents received from approved third parties, to ensure compliance with IT security and infrastructure policies, standards, and procedures.
• Analyses, designs, and monitors technologies that support existing line of business capabilities.
• Develops, updates, and maintains the architecture blueprint that will include as-is architecture, target architecture, and architecture evolution roadmap (1-5 years) aligned with planned projects.
• Defines, designs, develops, and maintains comprehensive architectures & standards, and application components (up/downstream interfaces, user interface, report, application logic, data access and secure network integrity) in coordination with stakeholder list.
• Updates and maintains an accessible repository for reference models and project-related architectural and application development materials related to APS.
• Reviews all design documents for new or upgraded application and integration projects to ensure compliance with architectural policies, standards, and procedures, and AODA compliant.
• Provides technical leadership throughout APS project life cycles.
• Works closely with all project team members to understand, document, and confirm requirements.
• Designs a system which takes into consideration the ease of maintenance, performance, and compatibility with existing systems.
• Provides advice and guidance to platform technical team members by providing mentoring and coaching.
• Provides architecture review of existing methods making recommendations of performance and scalability improvements, management updates and standards injection.
• Provides expert information architecture technical support for APS products relating to data management and data handling.
• Develops logical data models, data accountability, logical database tables and maps logical data models to databases.

• University or college graduate in Computer Science with a post-bachelor’s certificate/diploma in Application Development or…