Digital Architect

As the senior technical resource on the team, the Digital Architect(s) will guide the team in the rapid, iterative delivery of user-centric services with solution designs that align to the overall architectural vision and are in support of technical standards, coding standards, common tools and platforms. The Digital Architect(s) will also guide the product owner and team in balancing the allocation of team capacity between user stories and technical tasks. The Digital Architect(s) may perform some development work if needed. Therefore, a Digital Architect must have a strong technical understanding of current and emerging technologies, balanced with strong business acumen and project leadership skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the solution architecture of digital services by:
  • Developing the overall architectural plan, ensuring a citizen-centered design and agile software approach; o Uncovering existing system context;
  • Providing recommendations and prototypes for technical discovery and feasibility;
  • Providing and being accountable for the solution designs that account for iterative implementation; and o Analyzing impacts, exposure, and risk as it pertains to the solution design.
    
    
• Guide the team in the implementation of digital services by: o Facilitating frequent delivery of products to ensure that the target architecture is successfully created;
  • Determining the tactical approach on each integration and the target state of system boundaries and interactions;
  • Identifying opportunities to leverage common components and capabilities of other digital services; o Encouraging team contribution towards developing opportunities to leverage other digital services;
  • Providing guidance on the creation of detailed designs for solution implementation; o Reviewing code changes;
  • Contributing to code changes in order to implement user stories and to complete technical tasks; and o Providing coaching and mentorship to the product team.
    
    
• Contribute to the architectural vision for a platform of user-centric services, particularly as it relates to the use of common components and capabilities to accelerate service delivery.
• Contribute to the development of principles, metrics, and standards for service quality and delivery. • Provide software architecture information to technical and non-technical audiences by creating materials (documents, diagrams, presentations, etc.) appropriate to the audience.
• Actively participate in the development and continuous improvement of the architecture practice. The Province and the Contractor shall determine changes to Services and Materials as required. The Province and the Contractor will determine changes to Services and Materials through the Artifacts.
  
  

Must Have Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, IT or related field of study.
• 5+ years experience conveying technical information to non-technical people and advising decision-makers on technical options.
• 5+ years experience leading solution architecture and introducing the overall technical vision for a large-scale enterprise projects with integrations between systems
• 5+ years experience leading and mentoring team(s) in agile principles, policies and procedures.
• 2+ years experience with cloud services and the ability to leverage them to build scalable and resilient architectures
• 5+ years experience working as a software architect on complex software solutions in an agile team
• 5+ years experience working in software development across the full software development lifecycle
• 5+ years experience working with open source ecosystems such as Node.js/NPM.
  
  

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience implementing DevSecOps in an enterprise environment
• 5+ years experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases
• 5+ years experience working as an application architect designing or maintaining solutions that use enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) hub architecture registries
• 5+ years experience working as a senior technical resource identifying and advocating technologies and approaches that lead to digital transformation in the public sector context
• 2+ years experience working with teams that also apply UX design, service design, design thinking, or human-centered design approaches
• 4+ years experience leading domain modelling and database schema design for transactional and reporting systems
• 4+ years experience working as an architect using data analytics tools and methodologies to derive insights from data
• 4+ years experience working with architects and/or cross-functional teams to identify efficiencies through common services, reusable components and application programming interfaces (APIs), and contribute to the overall architecture practice designing and implementing application programming interfaces (APIs) and system integrations
  
  

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Job Number: 12146