Prinicipal Enterprise Architect (Network)

Principal Architect (Network)

Description of Assignment

In this pivotal, strategically important role of a Principal Architect (Network) with the City of Toronto Technology Services Division, you will play an instrumental part in City's digital transformation. You will define, realize, and leverage current and future technology to enable the City's digital vision, building on existing system investments to ensure stable, sustainable and scalable technology solutions. Working closely with peers, stakeholders and vendors, you will provide subject matter expertise and leadership in the network domain in the design, analysis, development, and transformation of the platforms or solutions as well as technology standards implementation.

Assignment Duties

The Solution Architect specialist is required to assist with the Design and Implementation of assigned projects as a member of the Technology Services Division. Providing resource augmentation and expertise in the area of architecture and design.

The Solution Architect specialist will support the following projects:

- Fleet- Driver Training & Safety application (DTS).

- Roads Allowance and Control System (RACS) Modernization Project.

- Enterprise Work Management System (EWMS)

· Develops the Enterprise Architecture (EA) program for network for the client and its ongoing evolution of support services for the technology and business communities by building on existing system investments to ensure Technology Services provides stable, sustainable, and scalable solutions.

· Provides guidance to project teams, assigned project staff and contract resources.

· Conducts extensive research into assigned area ensuring that research considers developments within the field, industry best practices, corporate policies and practices, legislation and initiatives by other levels of government.

· Develops and refines the city's EA while ensuring that the business requirements of the city as a whole, individual division/programs and the Agencies, Boards and Commissions are considered.

· Leads the analysis of the current network technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and technical debt and recommend solutions for improvement.

· Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base.

· Builds an enterprise architecture community of practice by fostering a strong working relationship among the roles of Principal Architect, enterprise architects, domain architects, solution architects and other architect practitioners.

· Provides subject matter expertise, oversight, and direction for the development and establishment of Enterprise Architectures for Information, Applications, and Infrastructure.

· Analyzes existing enterprise business context to derive future state technology architecture.

· Provides solutions to meet business requirements, ensuring compliance with the technology strategy, company policies and procedures.

· Provides architectural support for application development and modification activities. Assists in design, development, integration, and implementation activities.

· Defines requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise. Works with team members to develop architectural strategies and guidelines.

· Collaborates with Technology Services teams and recommends new technologies to management to develop robust solutions and reviews and recommends improvements to existing solution architectures.

· Analyzes and troubleshoots architecture related issues in a timely fashion.

· Provides oversight, expertise and direction in the mapping and monitoring of technologies underlying business capabilities, as well as emerging new uses and standards.

· Provides oversight, expertise, and direction for the development of Technology standards, the exploration of technologies for service innovation and business support and the establishment of strategies to implement an enterprise architecture model.

· Participates in project life cycle for: the preparation and development of high level/detailed technical requirements, planning and scheduling, managing, and mitigating technical issues and risks, contribution to feasibility and cost/benefit analysis of business solutions.

· Deals with confidential information affecting the organization and its resources. Prepares and presents reports to management supporting recommendations on changes/improvements in business processes, training and services, standards that impact appropriate staffing levels and resource allocation.

· Participates in the development, implementation, administration, monitoring and maintenance of enterprise architecture, collecting confidential information on infrastructure and application gaps.

· Provides leadership to the Architecture Review Boards and ensures that architecture and related quality assurance processes are communicated, understood, and implemented enterprise wide.

· Refines the EA based on the results of the annual assessments and ongoing contact with all sections in the Technology Services Division and divisional technology groups to ensure that all aligned with enterprise technology capabilities.

· Defines new and/or changed architecture requirements and design principles incorporating current and future technology requirements.

· Works with Quality Assurance, Audit, policy teams to ensure city architecture, security and privacy standards and best practices.

· Implements and sustains an accessible enterprise repository for reference models and project-related architectural materials.

· Reviews and certifies models and architectural solutions as conforming or not to the Technology Standards, identifying remedial actions, or implications of non-compliance in an exempted design.

· Ensures that architecture enables linkage to all partners in the public and private sectors through effective communication with all levels of government, the broader public sector and the private sector.

Experience and Qualifications

1. 10+ years Extensive IT experience gained in a complex technological environment, paired with post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or Math (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).

2. Experience leading major enterprise-wide on premise and Cloud transformations, with working knowledge of Cloud adoption , Infrastructure As Code (laC) software-defined infrastructure and private and public Cloud systems .

3. Experience in the formulation of architectures (including requirements discovery, analysis, application of abstraction, formulation of solution context, solution alternatives identification and assessment, technology selection, and design configuration).

4. Experience with Enterprise-grade network tools, technologies, platforms, and services.

5. Leadership skills: ability to lead, make bold data-driven decisions, transform and influence, while effectively collaborating with stakeholders at all levels.

6. Resourcefulness, analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with excellent communication skills.

7. Ability to handle multiple competing priorities while working on complex, highly visible projects.

8. Enterprise Architect certifications & experience with IBM Maximo suite of applications, platform is considered as an asset.

9. Strong analytical skills to examine business data & operating procedures.

10. Critical thinking skills for identifying issues & making proposals to tackle the issues.

11. Researching new developments in computer technology and business practices to stay familiar with cutting edge trends.

12. Tenacious and willing to support the team during peak volumes and workloads with various activities.

13. Ability to achieve business objectives through influencing and effectively working with key stakeholders.

14. Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels including business partners, leadership, and vendors.

Deliverables

1. Architecture Outline (High Level Design) Document ensuring solution integrates with the existing technology landscape & meets the business requirements.

2. Architecture Diagrams (visual representations of the system architecture, including solution context, systems, components, relationships, etc.)

3. System Integration Design

4. Architecture Assessments (comparative assessments, impact assessments, etc.

5. Architecture Decision documents

6. EARB (Enterprise Architecture Review Board) Package for solution approval

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