As a Solution Architect specializing in designing Business Solutions and providing architectural expertise to project delivery teams, you will provide direction, leadership and guidance to design, integrate and implement systems that support organization and systems initiatives. Your specialized technical and business consulting skills and services will be applied to meet specific project needs including Business Process Reviews, Data and Application Architecture Designs and Reviews, Technical Architecture Reviews, and Technical Assessments.

Major Responsibilities:

Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
Supervises, motivates and trains assigned staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
Supervises the day to day operation of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Authorizes and co-ordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and evaluates staff performance, approves salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
Leads, facilitates and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of corporate standards for the division, including formalized project management and methodology, data warehousing architecture, data modeling, metadata, change management, and application development and migration.
Responsible to senior management within the division, business and technical stakeholders for all aspects of assigned projects, including the project charter, project plan and schedule, progress, budget, risk management, issue management, change management, resource management, quality review/best practices.
Provides project budget and financial management such as sole source requests; contract negotiations; leasing agreements; business cases; feasibility and cost/benefit analysis.
Prepares and/or supervises the preparation of various formal contractual documents such as Request For Information/Proposal/Quotation (RFI/P/Q), Statement Of Work (SOW), Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
Provides leadership in the evaluation, selection and recommendation of technical solutions and professional services; manages vendors and contractors in the overall solution delivery process.
Identifies and develops divisional/cross-divisional initiatives to produce synergies and economies of scale.
Negotiates with senior management, clients and various stakeholders often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives and priorities.
Provides assessments and recommendations of new technology trends on the effective use, acquisition and integration of technology by the City.
Identifies and analyzes current business processes and practices in the context of evolving information architecture and performance measures; prepares feasibility study and recommends overall technical solutions for business initiatives and leverage existing enterprise infrastructure investments.
Recommends and implements security, privacy and quality assurance requirements consistent with both the Municipal Freedom of Information Privacy and Protection Act (MFIPPA), and corporate and legislated standards regarding the storage, processing and retention of confidential data.
Recommends, establishes, and sustains various project management structures that span one or more levels of government such as the Provincial Offence Act and Social Housing downloading initiatives.
Assesses and recommends scalable multi-jurisdictional business and technical solutions that meet client and business requirements in the context of corporate standards, policies and procedures for information technologies and architectures. This includes determining requirements, conducting research and evaluations and obtaining all approvals and signoffs.
Informs and educates senior managers, business users and technology peers on technology trends, and the effective use of business and technology solutions and information management.

Qualifications:

Post-secondary education in Computer Science or a related discipline or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Extensive experience with system integration in a large-scale integrated Technology Services solutions environment
Extensive experience in producing solution architectures using leading architecture frameworks, methodologies, standards, and best practices such as TOGAF or SAFe.
Extensive experience in designing a wide range of end-to-end enterprise level solutions.
Extensive experience in developing technology roadmaps based on the goals and objectives from business transformation and technology strategies.
Highly skilled in preparing project documentation such as business cases, market scan and assessment, fit/gap analysis, feasibility studies, detailed budget submissions, RFP/RFI/RFQ and utilizing project management tools for planning and implementing complex projects and/or packages.
Ability to establish and maintain an effective consulting relationship with corporate clients and vendors, with a strong customer service orientation and clear language focus.
Effective analytical and problem-solving skills in planning and designing creative solutions to meet customer needs.
Excellent leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively as a team member and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to coach, train, and provide work direction to other project staff effectively, as well as appraise work outcomes and quality accurately and fairly as input to the manager.
Experience in architecting and/or implementing solutions based on one or more major cloud service platforms (e.g. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, AWS, Azure, GCP) is an asset.
Experience in architecting and/or implementing solutions based on transitioning from Oracle to other Data management platforms is an asset
Experience in architecting and/or implementing solutions using automation with software CI/CD is an asset.

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