This position provides Enterprise Application, Information and Data Architectures in the delivery and improvement of information services to support the Ministry. The focus is on providing accessible quality Enterprise level Architectures to support the business architectures through planning, analysis, organization, control, and security. Under the direction of the Planning and Reporting manager, the Solutions Architect is the recognized expert in Enterprise information, data and applications integration requirements. This position develops, maintains and communicates IT best practices, standards definition, enterprise application and data architectures and provides expertise relating to integration services to support complex and integrated systems and department information requirements. The Solutions Architect represents the Ministry on Government Enterprise Architecture committees and is responsible for ensuring that the Enterprise Application and Information & Data Architecture assets of the Ministry are always up to date, and align with the Business Architectures. The successful candidate will have strong technical and communication skills for effectively resolving applications and information related issues and challenges.
In general, key aspects of the role are:
• Evolve, model and document the AF ITS Solution Architecture, standards and best practices.
• Act as advisor and mentor for all branches and project teams relating to the AF ITS Solution Architecture, standards and best practices
• Provide oversight and input to development teams, relating to Architecture
• Assist development teams by providing ongoing reviews to ensure that standards and guidelines are being followed and that risks have been understood and appropriately mitigated.
• Ensure that the ongoing migration to ICT services in particular, architectural decisions made in support of technology solutions are aligned and integrated with AF ITS Solution Architecture, standards and best practices.
• Determining alternatives to in-house developed items
• Work in partnership with business areas and Business Analysts to ensure that there is a transition from design to development.
• Assist with the development of principles, standards, guidelines on the proper use and deployment of various standard AF technologies and create appropriate documentation.
• Provide technical guidance, leadership, coaching and mentoring to senior analysts and developers in the ITS organization.
• Identify other architectural issues and recommendations to improve our solution systems environment. This includes current design patterns, component development and identification of common services, and the supportability and maintainability of solutions.
• Where necessary, continued enhancement and implementation of the existing frameworks in concert with the application development as well as identifying and implementing third party software to achieve the same function with lower in-house development and support costs.
Desired:
• Reviewing new services and technology requests by clients and assessing their impact on the operational environment, giving recommendations to ensure a successful and secure implementation
• Determination of hardware, software, infrastructure, data or technical requirements
• Assistance in developing project plans, schedules, and estimates pertaining to architectural deployment and services delivery. Assisting in developing task lists and resource assignments within the context of Architectural planning and deployments
• Documenting technical recommendations, providing technical advice and guidance to management, operations and project team members and within shared IT services
• Experience in modeling methodologies and tools
• Making recommendations to project managers pertaining to issues, risks and client satisfaction
Please forward resume with rate and contract details to xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx |
