Senior Technology Architect

Responsibilities

1. Technology Review Board (TRB) Leadership

• Develop and refine the TRB framework to align with Supply Ontario’s initiatives, supporting projects, and ensuring proper due diligence.
• Lead the TRB committee alongside other members to ensure projects align with the agency’s strategic goals.
• Provide project approvals and collaborate with project teams and sponsors on governance/architecture requirements.
• Author architectural documentation to assist project teams in assessing architecture and improving their processes.
• Inform stakeholders about issues and recommendations related to current technical solutions.
• Exhibit expertise in Cloud, PaaS, and SaaS-based architecture, and adapt new technologies to address set problems.
• Ensure compliance with security and quality requirements.
• Align project blueprints and technical designs with business strategies and objectives.

2. Architectural Leadership

• Own the overall technology and architecture blueprint for Supply Ontario, from solutioning to delivery.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Technology, Digital, and Data teams to develop technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Analyze complex business requirements and generate technical specifications or redesign applications.
• Conduct due diligence on solutions to ensure compliance with architectural design.
• Utilize industry best practices to design, test, implement, and support solutions.
• Create designs and reference architectures.
• Provide architecture leadership and technical expertise to project teams.
• Work with vendors to assess their products and understand their delivery models.

3. IT Governance Support

• Refine IT Governance Framework and Processes.
• Develop architecture templates, including EA SOW, EA Decision Matrix, and Enterprise Architecture Documentation.
• Track and develop performance metrics to support the continuous improvement of architecture governance.
• Reduce technical debt and optimize standards and practices.
• Contribute to the development of architecture governance structures and methodologies.
• Implement reusable assets and standards.
• Ensure the correct application of technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices across projects.
• Resolve significant architectural issues and address complex aspects of projects.

4. Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Manage stakeholders and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Present to the IT Governance Committee and Project Steering, collaborating with IT leadership on priority initiatives.
• Act as a bridge between technical and business teams during solution planning, development, and deployment.
• Represent the technical team in senior leadership meetings and communicate technical strategies to business and IT executives.
• Collaborate with the architecture team on project architectures being developed or adopted by Supply Ontario.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and support to project teams during delivery phases across ecosystems and platforms.
• Present to larger audiences using reporting, dashboards, and educational sessions.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, educating them on the benefits of proper architecture.
• Understand business and organizational strategy.

General Skills

• Project Management Expertise: Proven experience in managing complex IT projects.
• Strategic Planning and Execution: Ability to align IT initiatives with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in engaging various stakeholders, including technical teams and senior management.
• Change Management: Proficiency in managing organizational change, ensuring smooth transitions.
• Data Management: Understanding of data management principles, especially in the context of unstructured data and compliance.

Desirable Qualifications

• Leadership Experience: Previous experience leading technical architecture workstreams, bridging business and technical teams.
• Advanced Architecture Understanding: Proven ability to handle enterprise architecture responsibilities successfully.
• Hands-On Technical Delivery: Ability to perform hands-on delivery work in an architect role.
• Specialization in Architecture: Deep understanding of one or more technical architecture domains, including application, infrastructure/cloud, integration, and security.
• Cloud & Data Technologies: Good knowledge of cloud computing, emerging tech trends, and deployment options.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills and experience presenting ideas to varied audiences.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Experience coaching and mentoring others.

Technical Skills

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience: 10+ years in the IT industry, with at least 5 years in a technical architect role, specializing in service and hosting solutions like cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Vendor Management: Experience managing SaaS vendors and ensuring compliance with EA technology and security standards.
• Integration Practices: Knowledge of integration methods, including brokers, APIs, web services, JSON, and XML.
• Commercial Software: Experience with CRM and ERP systems.
• Microsoft Solutions: Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric platforms (Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Certifications: Microsoft, MS Azure, TOGAF, AWS, Pivotal, CISSP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, SAP, etc.
• Security Protocols: Familiarity with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, RBAC, Ping, etc.
• Disaster Recovery: Experience in architecting mission-critical components with DR capabilities.
• Programming/Scripting: Proficiency in languages like JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc. .NET and related Microsoft technologies are preferred.

Must Haves:

· 10+ years’ overall IT industry experience, with 5+ years in a technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms

· 3+ years’ experience with managing SaaS Vendors in ensuring compliance to EA technology and security standards

· Experience dsigning, developing, and implementing a Technology Review Board (TRB)

· Experience designing, developing, and owning the overall technology and architecture blueprint