Enterprise Architect

Location: Edmonton, AB

Remote

Contract Duration: 01/10/2025 to 31/03/2026

Client: GOA (Government of Alberta)

Job Id: GOAPRDJP00000651

Duties

• This role is responsible for understanding, describing and translating the GOA’s needs into an overall architecture vision, strategy and a set of architecture principles.
• This includes the active communication and promotion of the vision, strategy and principles.
• This role is also responsible for defining the enterprise architecture framework in order to avoid redundancy, have integrated, cost-effective solutions and provide a common foundation for all system, service and infrastructure developments.
• Guide and assist in enablement of business and technology programs and project plans, business cases, roadmaps and other supporting activities.
• Guide and support business activity monitoring and business intelligence (analysis and reporting) activities.
• Support linkages to Government of Alberta strategies and goals.
• Guide and support business, process, application and technology integration activities with other Government of Alberta departments and external stakeholder groups.
• Assist in defining governance and organization design to support new structures, processes, and approaches resulting from business and technology transformation.
• Support internal and external stakeholder engagement workshops and meetings.
• Support program management and change management leads in the successful delivery of business and technical initiatives.
• Provide leadership and guidance to business and project teams that require architectural and technical support.
• Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work as required.

Required Skill Matrix

• Education: The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following combinations of education:
• University graduation in Computing Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), Engineering (ENG), Management Information Systems (MIS) or related discipline & 6 years progressive related experience;
• 2-year diploma in CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 8 years progressive related experience;
• 1-year certificate in CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 9 years progressive related experience;
• 10 years progressive related experience.

Work Experience:

• Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development: 3 years.
• Experience in defining technical architecture, building technical environments, supporting software development processes and initiatives, software configuration and database management: 5 years.
• Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across ministries or departments: 5 years.
• Experience in multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology, data/information, security, and privacy: 3 years.
• Experience with process improvement, documentation and requirement gathering: 5 years.
• Experience with triaging technical issues/problems and troubleshooting: 3 years.
• Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation: 5 years.

Nice to Have Work Experience:

• Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing M365 products and services, either on-premises or in a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service environment: 1 year.
• Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing Microsoft Power Platforms products and services, either on-premises or in a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service environment: 1 year.
• Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting applications in an enterprise environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta: 5 years.
• Experience in designing architecture to support remote work and/or field-based workers: 5 years.
• Experience in developing new IT services including the development of service definitions, service measurements, cost models, processes, implementation and operational hand over: 3 years.
• Experience in IT infrastructure architecture and the relationships among the components that make up an IT service from end-user devices to servers, networks, storage, applications and data: 1 year.
• Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions: 3 years.
• Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT application development and maintenance projects: 3 years.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment: 3 years.
• Experience working within an agile development environment: 2 years.
• Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, use case or scenario development, communication, presentations, planning, estimating, and documentation: 3 years.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Consulting

Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting