Senior Solutions Architect tasked with defining a strategic roadmap for application modernization in a Canadian municipal government context. Collaborating with stakeholders to establish optimal architectural frameworks and standards.
Responsibilities
Define a strategic roadmap for application ecosystem modernization.
Develop distributed architecture approach in collaboration with stakeholders.
Estimate long-term costs, technology investments, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Collaborate with frameworks and standards team to define service communication, data management, and deployment patterns.
Assess current applications' landscape and identify modernization opportunities.
Evaluate and recommend the optimal architecture approach (microservices, modular monolith, hybrid, or incremental modernization).
Develop target-state architectures and strategic modernization roadmaps.
Lead domain modeling and enterprise application design activities.
Ensure alignment of technology solutions with business strategy and operational requirements.
Identify and mitigate architectural, technical, and operational risks.
Provide architectural leadership and oversight across projects and initiatives.
Prevent solution fragmentation and promote reusable, scalable design patterns.
Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to drive informed architecture decisions.
Deliver architecture assessments, recommendations, and executive-level guidance to support strategic planning.
Requirements
Ten (10) years' practical experience working in a Solution Architecture role;
Ten (10) years' demonstrated experience interpreting and verifying complex business requirements and relating them to business, information, application and solution architectures;
Ten (10) years' demonstrated experience in system integration and enterprise integration patterns;
Ten (10) years' experience creating architecture models using a variety of personal productivity and architecture tools;
Ten (10) years’ experience presenting findings and recommendations to clients and developing plans to implement recommendations/solutions.
Eight (8) years’ architecture experience with complex programs and projects requiring excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment with diverse audience.
Eight (8) years’ experience designing distributed systems
Eight (8) years’ experience in software development
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