Technology Architect

Responsibilities Develops, recommends, implements and manages the technical architecture (hardware, software, database and communications) which will be used for all or specific applications in a large, distributed cross-platform environment.

The Lands and Resources Cluster (LRC) and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources require a Senior Solution Architect to update the Enterprise/Solutions Architecture for their Water Information Systems Kisters (WISKI) including the new Weather Module and the Great Lakes Storm Surge Operating System (GLSSOS) Portfolio.

• 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. Power Designer, Dev Ops)
• 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 200
  
  PRS Ontario Public Service Enterprise Architecture Governance Requirements [WM2] 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 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 /…