IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist – Senior in Toronto

Responsibilities

• Provide the analysis, development and evaluation of new government-wide modernization strategies, plans and TSA direction, in order to recommend technology policies, standards and guidelines.
• Identify and facilitate the creation of enterprise-wide solution development standards, policies and guidelines to support standardized practices, unify technologies, common technology stacks, share frameworks, methodologies, and patterns.
• Recommend and create framework for solution development standards and enforcement based on industry best practices and previous experience.
• Identify enterprise platforms, products, and technology stacks using common patterns and services that leverage a modular/composable architecture approach for standardization.
• Develop, recommend, implement and manage IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and architect deliverables for the organization.
• Define standards and policies across all TSA layers and approaches to mandate the adoption of standardized practices and shared technology platforms for the channels, integrations, infrastructure and security.
• Establish governance processes to ensure compliance with defined standards and develop KPI and metrics to measure standards compliance rate and effectiveness.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Technical skills - 50%
• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of Enterprise Architecture and standardization practices for enterprise.
• Knowledge and experience in Application architecture, Technology Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Experience with modular architecture including microservices, API, standardized application patterns.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and development, aligns strategic objectives with technology and resources.
• Ability to define business capabilities and processes.
• Experience providing direction on operationalizing business strategy including systems, processes and required data.
• Demonstrated transformation thinking, and understanding of data interdependencies.
• Experience identifying technology risks and mitigations.
• Experience developing IT strategy aligned with business vision.
• Ability to streamline application landscape for optimal performance, decommission redundancy and reduce cost.
• Knowledge of Cloud architecture and relevant technologies to implement solutions in an enterprise environment (storage, web services, API, DevOps, security, networking, Middleware, VMware, CI/CD pipelines, etc.).
• Experience with AI, ML Machine learning, LLM Large Language Model, RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

• Communication, Consultation, Collaboration and Facilitation Skills - 50%
• Demonstrated experience using communication skills to discuss issues, seek common ground between parties, lead development of required standards.
• Strong facilitation skills to lead design discussions and negotiations, and present recommendations and advice to stakeholders on introduction of new and emerging technologies related to digital product development.
• Proven experience building relationships, liaising with external partners and vendors to coordinate projects and share information, being resilient and driven to deliver.
• Ability to conceptualize and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders from different business areas and to inform, and advise on, potential issues.
• Strong persuasion, networking and negotiating skills to assist business and IT managers to appreciate the long-term benefits of including technical and application architecture, assessing security and privacy in strategic planning, business transformations and IT projects.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
• Experience in Stakeholder Engagement including presentations and briefing notes and conducting/facilitating meetings.
• Experience and knowledge in Project Management.

Must haves:

• Experience with AI, ML Machine learning, LLM Large Language Model, RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
• Experience in Stakeholder Engagement, including presentations and briefing notes, and conducting/facilitating meetings.
• Creating presentations or workshops for different stakeholders and presenting to Seniors/COOs/CIOs.