Enterprise Architect

Competition Number:
2024-021

Functional Area:
Data & Digital

Location:
200 Front Street W, Toronto Ontario

Job Term:
Permanent full-time

Hours of Work:
36. 25 hours per week

Bargaining Unit:
AMAPCEO

Job Code:
AMAPCEO 7

Salary Range:
$88,496 - $128,625 per year

Posting Status:
Open

Posting Date:
January 6, 2025

As an Enterprise Architect on our team, you will be accountable for the planning, design, delivery, implementation, and evaluation of architecture solutions for large scale and complex multi-year projects required to meet major, critical business requirements of Supply Ontario and to meet the diverse business needs of clients.

The Enterprise Architect plays a crucial role in helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to establishing a comprehensive IT governance and strategy transformation, implementing a new IT operating model, and positioning IT as a strategic business enabler.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including business and IT teams, to develop Supply Ontario's Target Business Architecture in alignment with the agency's business plan.
• Leading the Technology Review Board (TRB) committee, ensuring project alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
• Owning the overall technology and architecture blueprint of Supply Ontario, from solutioning through to delivery phases.
• Overseeing application migration strategies, ensuring seamless transitions to new platforms or environments while minimizing downtime and disruption, with a strong focus on adopting and integrating SaaS solutions.
• Facilitating alignment between business and IT across the democratized IT landscape.
• Providing project approvals and collaborating with project teams and sponsors on necessary governance and architectural requirements.
• Refining and implementing IT governance frameworks and processes, ensuring compliance with quality, security, and regulatory standards.
• Developing architecture specifications for RFPs, supporting negotiations and management of contractual agreements with third-party products and services.
• Author architectural documentation to guide project teams in assessing and improving their processes.
• Analyzing complex business requirements, generating technical specifications, and redesigning intricate components and applications as needed.
• Leading the design and implementation of robust and scalable cloud architectures, ensuring optimal use of cloud services and cost-efficiency.
• Developing and maintaining the enterprise data architecture, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility across the organization.
• Driving the integration of various systems and applications, ensuring seamless interoperability and data flow.
• Overseeing the implementation of microservices and API management strategies to enhance system flexibility and scalability.
• Ensuring the adoption of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and continuous monitoring.
• Coaching and mentoring other architects, product owners/managers, and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.
• Presenting to the IT Governance Committee and Project Steering Committees, working closely with IT leadership on priority initiatives for executive leadership.
• Tracking and developing performance metrics to support the continuous improvement of the architecture governance framework.
• Assessing disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifying technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable business strategy.
• Creating architecture templates, including Enterprise Architecture Statements of Work (EA SOW), EA Decision Matrix, and Enterprise Architecture Documentation.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following:

• University degree in the field of computer science, information systems or software engineering
• 10 or more years of demonstrated experience in architecture design with a focus on large scale enterprise applications and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• 4 or more years of experience in technology consulting.
• Experience in defining new architectures and driving a project from an architectural standpoint.
• Expert skills in designing Enterprise Architecture changes and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives that affect IT, business, policies, processes and people.
• Proven skills in architecting and supervising the transformation journey to achieve expected impacts/results.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Agile including thorough grasp of the impacts Agile Framework has on Enterprise Architecture.
• Expert understanding and experience of Cloud, PaaS and SaaS based architecture with ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of various Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e. g. , Zachman, TOGAF) and ability to develop hybrid applications of methodologies to meet the organization's needs.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of complex technology ecosystems (applications, middleware, data, infrastructure, network, web, etc. )
• Skilled in business process modeling, data modeling, information resource management, business analysis, design and process re-engineering.
• Strong written and oral communication as well as presentation skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Broad knowledge of hardware, system software, middleware and programming languages
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Effective leadership skills with exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong consulting analytical, planning and organizational skills.

Supply Ontario offers a competitive compensation package including benefits and defined benefit pension plan.

Please apply byJanuary 20, 2025.

The selected candidate will be required to reside and work in Ontario.

Candidates are required to provide references and complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrange.