RQ11173 - IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist - Senior

Responsibilities

• Develops recommends, implements and manages IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and architect deliverables for the organization General Skills
  
• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of Enterprise Architecture
  
• Knowledge and experience in Application architecture, Technology Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  
• Demonstrated Strategic thinking and development, aligns strategic objectives with technology and resources
  
• Ability to define business capabilities and processes
  
• Experience providing direction on operationalizing business strategy including systems, processes and required data.
  
• Demonstrated Transformation thinking, and understanding of data interdependencies
  
• Experience identifying technology risks and mitigations
  
• Experience developing IT strategy aligned with business vision
  
• Ability to streamline application landscape for optional performance, decommission redundancy and reduce cost
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience in Stakeholder Engagement including presentations and briefing notes and conducting / facilitating meetings
  
• Experience and knowledge in Project Management
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Technical skills - 50%

• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of Enterprise Architecture.
  
• Knowledge and experience in Application architecture, Technology Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Demonstrated Strategic thinking and development, aligns strategic objectives with technology and resources
  
• Ability to define business and technical capabilities and processes.
  
• Experience providing direction on operationalizing business strategy including systems, processes and required data.
  
• Demonstrated transformation thinking, and understanding of data interdependencies
  
• Experience identifying technology risks and mitigations
  
• Experience developing IT strategy aligned with business vision.
  
• Ability to streamline application landscape for optional performance, decommission redundancy and reduce cost.
  
• Experience conducting technology assessments, performing fit-gap analyses, developing architecture roadmaps, and producing architectural artifacts to support project delivery, alongside contributing to reference architectures, guidance, and templates.
  

Communication, Consultation, Collaboration and Facilitation Skills- 50%

• Demonstrated experience using consulting and communication skills to discuss issues, seek common ground between parties, lead development of required standards.
  
• Strong facilitation skills to lead design discussions and negotiations, and present recommendations and advice to stakeholders on introduction of new and emerging technologies related to digital product development.
  
• Proven experience building relationships, liaising with external partners and vendors to coordinate projects and share information, being resilient and driven to deliver.
  
• Ability to conceptualize and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders from different business areas and to inform, and advise on, potential issues.
  
• Strong persuasion, networking and negotiating skills to assist business and IT managers to appreciate the long-term benefits of including technical and application architecture, assessing security and privacy in strategic planning, business transformations and IT projects Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  
• Experience in Stakeholder Engagement including presentations and briefing notes and conducting / facilitating meetings Experience and knowledge in Project Management.
  

• 15+ years of experience as an architect - working on various platforms.
  
• Provide architecture support to delivery teams across assigned projects and initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and TSA.
  
• Conduct technology assessments and fit-gap analyses to evaluate solution options and recommend optimal approaches
  
• Create and maintain architecture roadmaps that support program and project objectives while advancing enterprise alignment.
  
• Develops recommends, implements and manages IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and architect deliverables for the organization
  
• Provide analysis, development and evaluation of new government-wide modernization strategies, plans and TSA direction, to identify needs for new technology and architecture standards and guidelines.
  
• Contribute to EA standards and artifacts templates where required, based on lessons learned from project delivery and emerging needs.
  
• Contribute to the creation of enterprise-wide enterprise architecture standards, and guideline to support standardized practices, unify technologies, common technology stacks, share frameworks, methodologies, and patterns.
  
• Identify enterprise platforms, products, and technology stacks using common patterns and services that leverage a modular/composable architecture approach for standardization.
  
• Ability to deal with various stakeholders
  
• strong technical background - however this is not an application/solution architecture role.
  
• Ability to create policy and standards from a organization prespective.
  
• Understanding of EA frameworks, platform and products