Job title: Enterprise Architect, 29954-RFR-DTS-033

Type of work : Onsite

Contract: 24 months

Location: 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg

Role Description

The Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solution’s life-cycle stages.

Responsibilities:

• Document the business drivers, client area processes, and how those processes contribute to the achievement of the area’s business goals
• Analyze the business needs of clients and stakeholders to propose potential solutions both technical and non-technical
• Lead the translation of business requirements into high-level design specifications
• Design and document cost effective, innovative and operationally supportable solutions
• Document the structure, connections, and relationships of business processes, organizational work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, applications interfaces, infrastructure, and network topology
• Design solutions that recognize and adapt to the business, technical, and financial constraints
• Develop solutions that recognize IT operational limitations and opportunities
• Document the effort, risk, costs, and complexity of potential solutions
• Research and write discussion documents on such topics as emerging technologies, vendors, functionality and reliability of products, and service offerings
• Review proposed solution architectures and ensure they align with overall enterprise architecture roadmaps, standards, designs, and strategies
• Ensure solution architectures meet business objectives for availability, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, manageability, and security
• Ability to identify trends and create appropriate strategy and roadmap documents for Enterprise IT initiatives such as Internet of Things (IoT), Information Management, Data Analytics and cloud platforms.
• Develop Enterprise principles, standards, and guidelines for enterprise solutions and strategic outlook.
• Develop Governance for enterprise solution approvals.
• Solution architecture reviews to insure alignment with Enterprise Architecture
• Develop templates for solution architectures and solution design documents.
• Develop or update domain specific architectures (business architecture, application architecture, mobile architecture and data / information architecture).
• Other architect duties as assigned

The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience working in technical Information Technology roles within complex enterprise environments
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience developing solution architectures on projects across n-tiered platforms
• Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques, data management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools.
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multi-platform, competing technologies, SaaS and PaaS, Software as a Service)
• Knowledge of process re-engineering principles, requirements gathering, and middleware management
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Minimum 5+ years experience working in an Enterprise Architect role.
• Experience communicating and presenting to senior executive management.
• Minimum 5+ years experience developing and implementing standards, principles, guidelines, strategies and roadmaps for the enterprise.
• Excellent customer service skills

It is preferred that the Resource has the following qualifications or experience

• Enterprise Architecture certifications such TOGAF, Zachman, and ITI