Technology Architect Senior

Project Description

To respond to the priorities of the Government of Ontario through the passage of the Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025, the resource may be partially assigned to Bill 5 related projects or initiatives on an as needed basis.

This position is listed as "Onsite"; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location”.

Responsibilities and Requirements

• 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.
• Analyzes and approves various design and implementation approaches with respect to different interface touch points. Also 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 OPS EA guidelines using the appropriate version)
• Collaborates with cluster staff, project teams, clients and other OPS partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment
• Defines the structure and relationship among technical solutions, including the identification of re-usable 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
• Arranges 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
• Adhere to all OPS GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 56.0, GO-ITS 56.1, GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required

Job Description

To respond to the priorities of the Government of Ontario through the passage of the Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025, the resource may be partially assigned to Bill 5 related projects or initiatives on an as needed basis.

This position is listed as "Onsite"; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location”.

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.

“This position is listed as "Onsite"; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location”.

• 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.
• Analyzes and approves various design and implementation approaches with respect to different interface touch points. Also 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 OPS EA guidelines using the appropriate version)
• Collaborates with cluster staff, project teams, clients and other OPS partners / service providers to ensure architecture alignment
• Defines the structure and relationship among technical solutions, including the identification of re-usable 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
• Arranges 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
• Adhere to all OPS GO-ITS Standards, specifically GO-ITS 56.0, GO-ITS 56.1, GO-ITS 56.3 and others as required

Deliverables / Responsibilities

Evaluation Criteria:

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 and decision-making skills
• Excellent 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
• Demonstrated consensus building skills