Senior Digital Architect

Job Title: Senior Digital Architect

Job Location: Edmonton, AB

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $105.00hr - $110.00hr

Job Overview:

• The Senior Digital Architect will provide architecture leadership, application lifecycle management, and solution delivery oversight for the organization s Applications, Data, and AI portfolio. The candidate will work across multiple applications, projects, and strategic technology priorities to support modernization and digital services while establishing common standards and sustainable operating models.

Scope:

• The team provides architecture leadership, application lifecycle management, business analysis, solution delivery oversight, data and AI enablement, and Application Management Services (AMS) governance. The team supports the modernization, enhancement, integration, and ongoing support of applications and digital services while establishing common standards, reusable capabilities, and sustainable operating models across the portfolio.

Duties:

The Senior Digital Architect will be required on a full-time basis, working across multiple applications, projects, operational initiatives, and strategic technology priorities. Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses in response to emerging business needs, operational priorities, technical opportunities, and modernization objectives.

The following must be delivered iteratively over the course of the engagement:

• Lead solution and enterprise architecture activities by developing current-state and target-state architecture roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, security, and technology domains.
• Define architecture principles, standards, patterns, guardrails, and reusable components.
• Produce architecture artifacts including solution designs, integration models, decision records, technical assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assess technical feasibility, operational readiness, sustainability, and long-term support implications.
• Analyze risks, dependencies, security impacts, and architectural trade-offs associated with proposed solutions.
• Support architecture governance activities and technical reviews.
• Guide the implementation and support of digital services by providing hands-on technical leadership to development teams, application analysts, support teams, and vendors.
• Review technical designs, code implementations, integrations, deployments, and solution configurations.
• Contribute directly to technical implementation activities where required.
• Establish integration approaches, interface patterns, and target application boundaries.
• Support DevOps, cloud platform, automation, CI/CD, and environment management activities.
• Mentor technical resources and promote architecture best practices across delivery and support teams.
• Lead business and systems analysis activities by facilitating discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements.
• Produce process models, user stories, requirements documentation, impact assessments, and solution options.
• Support prioritization of initiatives, enhancements, defects, and modernization opportunities.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Support Application Management Services (AMS) and operational excellence by providing architecture and technical oversight for applications operating within AMS.
• Participate in major incident reviews, problem management activities, service reviews, and change advisory processes.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve reliability, and strengthen operational support models.
• Support release planning, deployment governance, environment strategies, and production readiness reviews.
• Assist with transitions of applications from project delivery into sustainable support operations.
• Contribute to architecture governance and standards development by participating in Architecture Review Board (ARB) reviews and technical governance processes.
• Evaluate project and vendor deliverables against architecture standards, security requirements, and approved patterns.
• Support the development and maintenance of architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and technical policies.
• Review architecture exceptions, dispensations, and compliance assessments.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture governance practices.
• Support vendor, procurement, and delivery oversight by reviewing vendor solution proposals, estimates, technical designs, and deliverables.
• Provide technical input into procurement activities, statements of work, and architecture evaluations.
• Ensure vendor solutions align with standards, supportability requirements, and long-term strategic objectives.
• Support knowledge transfer, documentation reviews, and transition planning activities.
• Support data, analytics, and AI initiatives by defining architecture approaches for analytics, data integration, reporting platforms, and AI-enabled services.
• Support secure and compliant use of AI technologies within court environments.
• Contribute to data governance, information architecture, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to leverage common capabilities and reusable services across applications, data, and AI solutions.
• Communicate technical information effectively by creating architecture documents, diagrams, presentations, standards, recommendations, and executive briefings appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Present findings, recommendations, risks, and options to project teams, operational stakeholders, governance committees, vendors, and leadership.
• Support decision-making through clear articulation of technical implications, opportunities, and trade-offs.
• Continuously improve the architecture and delivery practice by promoting reuse, standardization, simplification, and operational sustainability across the portfolio.
• Identify emerging technologies and modernization opportunities that support organizational objectives.
• Contribute to the evolution of architecture, delivery, support, and governance practices across Applications, Data, AI, and AMS functions.

Requirements:

• College or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
• Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional agile product teams, providing architectural direction, and mentoring developers and technical leads.
• Experience architecting, managing, and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Experience identifying and assessing requirements within multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology, data/information, security, and privacy.
• Experience in documenting application architectures in an enterprise IT environment of significant size and complexity.
• Experience in planning, designing, implementing and supporting platform solutions in an enterprise IT environment of significant size and complexity.
• Experience providing leadership, planning, estimating, and presentations of ideas and solutions.

Nice to Have:

• Collaborate with data architects, engineers and analysts to design and optimize cloud architecture and services.
• Experience in contributing or developing application architecture standards and guidelines.
• Experience working as an application architect designing or maintaining solutions that use enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) hub architecture registries.
• Experience working as an application architect developing a solution using amCharts charting framework in an enterprise IT environment of significant size and complexity.
• Experience working as an application architect developing mobile solutions in an enterprise IT environment of significant size and complexity.
• Experience working with Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten Web Application Security Flaws.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities