Job Description:Lead The Solution Architecture of Digital Services:
Developing the overall architectural plan, ensuring a citizen-centered design and agile software approach.
Uncovering existing system context.
Providing recommendations and prototypes for technical discovery and feasibility;
Providing and being accountable for the solution designs that account for iterative implementation.
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 code changes.
Contributing to code changes in order to implement user stories and to complete technical tasks.
Providing coaching and mentorship to the product team.
Contribute to the architectural vision for a platform of user-centric services, particularly as it relates to the use of common components and capabilities to acceleXX service delivery.
Contribute to the development of principles, metrics, and standards for service quality and delivery.
Provide software architecture information to technical and non-technical audiences by creating materials (documents, diagrams, presentations, etc.) appropriate to the audience.
Actively participate in the development and continuous improvement of the architecture practice.
The Province and the Contractor shall determine changes to Services and Materials as required.
The Province and the Contractor will determine changes to Services and Materials through the Artifacts.
Other Candidatedatory Requirements:
The Candidate must provide two (2) project/assignment examples for each proposed Digital Architect, which exemplify/demonstXX the Digital Architect’s expertise.
Questions 1 through 5 must be answered for each project example.
The evaluation team must be able to determine which project any given answer relates to.
Where the answer to a question is the same for both projects, this must be clearly stated.
Provide an overview of the project/assignment the Digital Architect or the Digital Architect’s team was engaged in that demonstXXs expertise in the Digital Architect role.
Describe the sector(s) (i.e. public, private or other) the project/assignment served.
Identify the project/assignment size in dollar value (i.e. less than $100,000, less than $500,000, less than $1,000,000 or greater than $1,000,000).
Describe the approach for the design, development, mitigation of risk and delivery of the project/assignment, including any special considerations with respect to methodology or processes.
In providing a response consider quality assurance and communication across the cross functional team.
Provide a list of specific skills, tools and/or technology used within the project/assignment.
Evaluation:
The evaluation criteria will be distributed within the following categories.
Subject to the requirements of FOIP, the evaluation of Responses shall be confidential, and not released to any party.
Qualifications – 20%
Interview – 50%
Other Candidatedatory Requirements – 20%
Pricing – 10%
Must Have:
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field of study equivalencies will be considered Yes/No
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional agile product teams, providing architectural direction, and mentoring developers and technical leads 5 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 8 years.
Experience in leading solution architecture and introducing the overall technical vision for a large-scale Enterprise projects with integrations between systems 5 years.
Experience leading domain modelling and database schema design for transactional and reporting systems 4 years.
Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influence decision-making 5 years.
Nice to Have:
Experience aligning data architecture with organizational data strategies and digital service delivery goals 3 years.
Experience applying data governance principles to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance in data product delivery 3 years.
Experience applying secure development practices and managing identity and access using role-based or attribute-based access control and Zero Trust Architecture principle 4 years.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to embed data interoperability and standardization practices into product development workflows 2 years.
Experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases 5 years.
Experience with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices for cloud or hybrid environments 2 years.
Experience working with both relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and performance optimization 5 years.
Experience working within public sector digital service frameworks or enterprise architecture standards 2 years.
Experience working as an architect using data analytics tools and methodologies to derive insights from data 4 years.
Expected salary
Location
Edmonton, AB
Job date
Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:25:36 GMT
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