RQ08646 Sr Technology Architect

Advantages
- Long-term contract with potential for extension
- Hybrid work environment (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, enterprise-wide architecture initiatives
- Collaborate with senior leadership and multi-disciplinary teams
- Contribute to health sector innovation and data governance advancement

Responsibilities
- Develops, recommends, and supports the guidance of enterprise architecture which will be used for strategic, prototype, and target state documentation as well as for flagged applications and technologies in a large, distributed cross-platform environment.
- Responsibilities include the identification of relevant information and the determination of interactions and sustainment within the greater environment, which will be used for recommending patterns and decision-tree frameworks, building partnerships, and being an expert guidance-giver for go-forward initiative considerations and technology selections.
- Support to evaluate emerging technologies against local and global target state directions and architecture, recommending strategies and solutions that align with organizational goals and drive innovation.
- Support work coming out of OHDC recommendations related to establishing system-level data governance and stewardship.

Qualifications
Must Haves:
- Leadership experience in the development and implementation of enterprise and/or domain architectures at the specified experience level.
- Extensive experience with at least three different platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, and communications protocols.
- Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments; Ability to work with enterprise CRM, data, and workflow platforms for discovery and modernization efforts.

General Skills:
- Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of applications and platforms.
- Extensive experience in business and systems analysis and design in large systems environments.
- Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL, COBIT, etc., and is able to guide others using this methodology.
- Experience translating business requirements into downstream technical / solution needs.
- Experience preparing conceptual, logical and/or physical processes and data models.
- Experience developing, recommending, implementing and managing technical and related domain reference architectures.
- Leads highly sensitive enterprise, business, information, and technology architecture investigations, with the ability to present to and influence diverse and complex set of stakeholders and leadership.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, trends and directions, both technologically and within the provincial health domain.
- Strong familiarity with composable architecture, microservices, and data decentralization and channel unification concepts.

Desirable Skills:
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
- Strong familiarity with business process modeling and understanding of core business domains.
- Detailed holistic knowledge and understanding of Enterprise, Application/Integration, and Data/Analytics architecture principles and applications across global and local layers.
- Experience in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid solutions.
- Strong knowledge of cost optimization in enterprise technology environments.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.

Summary
Our client is seeking a Sr. Technology Architect to lead enterprise architecture development across a highly complex, hybrid environment. This opportunity is ideal for an individual with strong architectural vision, stakeholder management skills, and hands-on experience with composable systems, microservices, and cloud technologies. If you're ready to make a lasting impact through architectural leadership and innovation, we encourage you to apply.

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