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Job Title: Digital Architect
Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Onsite – 5 Days/Week)
Duration: 3-Year Contract
Work Hours: Monday – Friday | 08:15 – 16:30 (Alberta Time)

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Digital Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern, scalable digital services. This role focuses on building reusable components and shared services that accelerate development across multiple product teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and user-centered design principles.

The Digital Architect will work across multiple concurrent projects, providing architectural leadership, guiding development teams, and enabling the delivery of high-quality, citizen-focused digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities Solution Architecture & Design

• Lead the design of end-to-end solution architecture for digital services
• Develop architectural strategies aligned with agile and user-centered design approaches
• Analyze existing systems and define integration strategies
• Provide recommendations, prototypes, and technical feasibility assessments
• Identify risks, impacts, and system dependencies in solution designs

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Guide development teams in implementing scalable and maintainable solutions
• Define system boundaries, integrations, and target-state architecture
• Promote reuse of shared services and common platform components
• Review code and contribute to development tasks when required
• Mentor and coach team members on architecture and best practices

Architecture Strategy & Governance

• Contribute to enterprise architectural vision and standards
• Develop principles, metrics, and guidelines for service quality and delivery
• Support modernization initiatives and transformation of legacy systems
• Ensure alignment with security, scalability, and performance standards

Collaboration & Communication

• Translate technical architecture into clear documentation, diagrams, and presentations
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX, product, and engineering
• Participate in continuous improvement of architecture practices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of experience as a Software or Solution Architect
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale digital solutions
• Strong experience with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience working in Agile environments with user-centered or human-centered design approaches
• Ability to define and communicate architecture for large-scale systems, including integrations and cloud-native patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft .NET technologies
• Knowledge of secure development practices, identity management, and Zero Trust Architecture
• Experience designing and managing APIs (RESTful services)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies
• Experience modernizing legacy systems into scalable digital services
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Exposure to public sector or enterprise architecture frameworks

Work Environment & Requirements

• Onsite role in Edmonton, Alberta (5 days per week)
• Standard business hours, Monday through Friday
• Equipment will be provided

For more details reach at resumes@navitassols.com.

About Navitas Partners, LLC: It is a certified WBENC and one of the fastest-growing healthcare staffing firms in the US providing Medical, Clinical and Non-Clinical services to numerous hospitals. We offer the most competitive pay for every position we cater. We understand this is a partnership. You will not be blindsided, and your salary will be discussed upfront.