Digital Architect – Senior JP1022

Digital Architect – Senior JP1022

• Contract Period: October 5, 2026 – September 30, 2029
• Extension: Up to 24 months
• Location: Edmonton, Alberta
• Work Arrangement: Onsite, 5 days per week
• Working Hours: 8:15 AM – 4:30 PM MT
• Hours: 7.25 hours/day, 36.25 hours/week
• Security: Enhanced Security Clearance required

Responsibilities

• Lead solution and enterprise architecture activities across business, application, data, integration, security, and technology domains.
• Develop current-state and target-state architecture roadmaps, principles, standards, patterns, guardrails, and reusable components.
• Produce solution designs, integration models, architecture decision records, technical assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assess technical feasibility, operational readiness, sustainability, risks, dependencies, security impacts, and architectural trade-offs.
• Support architecture governance, technical reviews, and Architecture Review Board (ARB) activities.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, application analysts, support teams, and vendors.
• Review technical designs, code implementations, integrations, deployments, and solution configurations.
• Contribute to technical implementation activities, integration approaches, interface patterns, DevOps, cloud, automation, CI/CD, and environment management.
• Mentor technical resources and promote architecture best practices.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements.
• Develop process models, user stories, requirements documentation, impact assessments, and solution options.
• Translate business objectives into technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Provide architecture and technical oversight for applications operating within Application Management Services (AMS).
• Participate in major incident reviews, problem management, service reviews, change advisory processes, release planning, deployment governance, and production readiness reviews.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve reliability, and strengthen operational support models.
• Support application transitions from project delivery into sustainable support operations.
• Evaluate project and vendor deliverables against architecture standards, security requirements, and approved patterns.
• Support architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, technical policies, architecture exceptions, and compliance assessments.
• Review vendor proposals, estimates, technical designs, and deliverables.
• Provide technical input into procurement activities, statements of work, and architecture evaluations.
• Support vendor knowledge transfer, documentation reviews, and transition planning.
• Define architecture approaches for analytics, data integration, reporting platforms, and AI-enabled services.
• Support secure and compliant use of AI technologies, data governance, information architecture, and platform modernization.
• Identify opportunities to leverage common capabilities and reusable services across applications, data, and AI solutions.
• Create architecture documents, diagrams, presentations, standards, recommendations, and executive briefings.
• Present technical findings, recommendations, risks, options, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote reuse, standardization, simplification, and operational sustainability across the portfolio.
• Identify emerging technologies and modernization opportunities.
• Contribute to improving architecture, delivery, support, and governance practices across Applications, Data, AI, and AMS.

Must-Haves

• College or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• TOGAF certification.
• 8+ years of experience leading cross-functional agile product teams, providing architectural direction, and mentoring developers and technical leads.
• 5+ years of experience architecting, managing, and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• 8+ years of experience identifying and assessing requirements across multiple architecture domains, including business, application, technology, data/information, security, and privacy.
• 7+ years of experience documenting application architectures in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
• 7+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and supporting platform solutions in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
• 8+ years of experience providing leadership, planning, estimating, and presenting ideas and solutions.

Nice-to-Haves

• 5+ years collaborating with data architects, engineers, and analysts to design and optimize cloud architecture and services.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to or developing application architecture standards and guidelines.
• 5+ years of experience as an application architect designing or maintaining solutions using enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) hub architecture registries.
• 5+ years of experience as an application architect developing solutions using the amCharts charting framework in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
• 5+ years of experience as an application architect developing mobile solutions in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
• 5+ years of experience working with OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security Flaws.

Additional Information

• Equipment will be provided.
• Standard background and criminal record checks are required before commencement.
• Mandatory training includes privacy and security awareness training.

Submission Requirements

• Resume. All required experience must be clearly described in the resume under the specific job/project where the experience was gained.
• Each job/project must include the project/job term in MMM/YYYY to MMM/YYYY format.
• Three professional references for similar work performed, with the most recent reference listed first.