Digital Architect 022

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Engagement Details

• The Senior Digital Architect is required on a full-time basis with a 7.25-hour workday.
• The stated engagement runs from October 5, 2026 to September 30, 2029, with a possible extension.

Workplace

• The role is on-site in Edmonton, Alberta, at 10365 - 97 ST.

Architecture Leadership

• Develop 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 solution designs, integration models, decision records, technical assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assess feasibility, operational readiness, sustainability, support implications, risks, dependencies, security impacts, and architectural trade-offs.
• Support architecture governance activities and technical reviews.

Implementation and Delivery

• Provide 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.

Business and Systems Analysis

• Facilitate 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.

Application Management and Governance

• Provide architecture and technical oversight for court applications operating within Application Management Services.
• Participate in major incident reviews, problem management, service reviews, and change advisory processes.
• Support release planning, deployment governance, environment strategies, production readiness reviews, and transitions into sustainable support operations.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board reviews and evaluate project and vendor deliverables against standards, security requirements, and approved patterns.
• Support architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, technical policies, exceptions, dispensations, and compliance assessments.

Vendor and Procurement Oversight

• Review 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 and documentation reviews.

Requirements

• Full-time availability for a 7.25-hour workday is required.
• Ability to lead architecture activities across business, application, data, integration, security, and technology domains.
• Ability to produce solution designs, integration models, decision records, technical assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ability to facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder consultations and document business and technical requirements.
• Ability to provide technical oversight for application support, release planning, deployment governance, and production readiness.