Digital Architect
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Our client requires an architect to guide teams with a focus on a citizen-centered design and agile approach, providing recommendations, prototypes, and accountable solution designs. This includes uncovering existing system context, providing recommendations for technical discovery and leading implementation of digital services, leveraging common components, and contributing to the architectural vision and service quality standards.
Work is remote.
Responsibilities
- Analyzing impacts, exposure, and risk as it pertains to the solution design.
- Guide the team in the implementation of digital services by:
- Facilitating frequent delivery of products to ensure that the target architecture is successfully created;
- Determining the tactical approach on each integration and the target state of system boundaries and interactions;
- Identifying opportunities to leverage common components and capabilities of other digital services;
- Encouraging team contribution towards developing opportunities to leverage other digital services;
- Providing guidance on the creation of detailed designs for solution implementation;
- Reviewing and contributing code changes, implementing user stories and completing technical tasks
- Providing coaching and mentorship to the product team.
- Contributing to the development of principles, metrics, and standards for service quality and delivery.
- Providing software architecture information to technical and non-technical audiences by creating materials (documents, diagrams, presentations, etc.) appropriate to the audience.
- Actively participating in the development and continuous improvement of the architecture practice.
Mandatory Requirements
- Must meet or exceed one of the following:
- University graduation in computer science, IT or a related discipline and 2-yr related experience; OR
- 2-yr diploma in computer science, IT or a related discipline and 4-yr related experience; OR
- 1-yr certificate in computer science, IT or a related discipline and 5-yr related experience OR
- 10-yr related experience
- 8 years’ experience as a data architect, software architect, or senior data engineer, where the proposed resource’s focus has been collaborative work on and/or with cross-functional teams to create new software applications
- 5 years’ experience conveying technical information to non-technical people and advising decision-makers on technical options.
- 5 years’ experience in leading solution architecture and introducing the overall technical vision for a large-scale Enterprise projects with integrations between systems.
- 2 years’ experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and the ability to leverage them to build scalable and resilient architectures.
- 5 years’ experience working as a software architect on complex software solutions in an agile team environment.
- 5 years’ experience working in software development across the full software development lifecycle
- 2 years’ experience working with open source ecosystems such as Node.js/NPM.
- 4 years’ experience leading domain modelling and database schema design for transactional and reporting systems.
Desirable Requirements
- 2 years’ experience implementing DevSecOps in an enterprise environment
- 5 years’ experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases.
- 5 years’ experience working as an application architect designing or maintaining solutions that use the development stack and derivative technologies (Microsoft .Net, Java, Python, etc.) within a large and complex public sector environment.
- 5 years’ experience working as a senior technical resource identifying and advocating technologies and approaches that lead to digital transformation in the public sector context.
- 2 years’ experience working with teams that also apply UX design, service design, design thinking, or human-centered design approaches.
- 4 years’ experience working as an architect using data analytics tools and methodologies to derive insights from data
- 4 years’ experience working with other architects and/or as part of cross-functional teams to identify efficiencies through common services, reusable components and application programming interfaces (APIs), and contribute to the overall architecture practice designing and implementing application programming interfaces (APIs) and system integrations.
Job Posting ID: 55947
Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Remote)
Estimated Starting Date: Jan 6, 2025
Estimated End Date: till Jan 5, 2026 + 2 pos. 1-year extensions
Posting Closing Date: December 5, 2024
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