Senior Solution Architect - Data - TERM

Reporting to the Director, Product Planning and Delivery – ERP Modernization, the Senior Solution Architect – Data is responsible for architecture, design, and delivery of large, complex, strategic, and enterprise-level solutions that meet Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries’ (MBLL) business plans objectives. Working collaboratively with Enterprise and Business Solution Architecture, the Senior Solution Architect provides technical leadership across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level including providing guidance and advice to Solution Architects.

This position is responsible for the data architecture, design, governance, and delivery of enterprise data solutions, ensuring that MBLL applications including ERP program data structures, integrations, and information workflows are trusted, well-managed, secure, and aligned with MBLL’s data governance and enterprise architecture standards.

The primary focus for this position will be to design ERP data architectures, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Define ERP master data management (MDM), governance and data quality frameworks as well as research and recommend modern data-platform technologies, establish architecture for data lineage, metadata management, and data integration across ERP modules and downstream MBLL systems. They will oversee the data migration architecture, ensuring traceability, cleansing approaches, reconciliation, and quality controls are in place and define patterns and standards for APIbased, ETL/ELT, and event-driven data integrations supporting ERP and analytics.

This position is tied to a defined, multi-year ERP modernization project with clear outcomes and will enable trusted data that reduces downstream processes through transparent decision making and collaboration with business and technical partners.

• Develop complex and enterprise-wide holistic solution architectures and design for MBLL systems with the goal of reducing MBLL’s technology footprint and promoting system “re-use”.
• Design the integrated system framework for the solution by identifying shared services and shared solutions to ensure strategic re-use of solution, components, and services for complex and highly-integrated solutions.
• Design and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining corporate systems and software.
• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures developed by Solution Architects are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
• Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to Solution Architects, Systems Analysts, and software development teams.
• Provide input through collaboration with Enterprise Architects in setting MBLL technology standards and baseline technologies.
• Act as a technical liaison and coordinator in projects or initiatives between external vendors and internal technical resources such as technical architects, developers, testers, and ITS Operations.
• Provide guidance to junior members of the architecture team.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Lead a small team of technology staff to develop Proof of Concepts/Value using new technologies which can potentially benefit MBLL.
• Ensure the solution design developed by Solution Architects is meeting architectural standards, complies with policies for systems component reuse, presents a layer look and feel, security, audit, records management and archival requirements.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to maintain the MBLL Technology Roadmap.
• Review new and existing systems design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans.
• Assist in leading the intake of all requests for IT consulting services, new systems, and major upgrades.
• Participate in developing business cases and cost/benefit analysis for IT spending and initiatives.
• Work closely with the Manager, Architecture and Analysis in planning, development, and implementation of…