Application Architect

About the role

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

Technology Architecture Experience:

• Defines, identifies and describes technical and information architectural requirements with clients, and obtains I&IT management approval.
• Develops and obtains approval for detailed plans and resource estimates for large-scale and complex architecture projects and/or components of other projects with architecture elements.
• Ability to complete complex technology and information architecture reviews and assessments, to support projects, new and changed enterprise priorities and initiatives, and client clusters’ and their clients’ information architecture and/or business needs.
• Researches, develops, implements and maintains technology and information architectural policies and standards, as approved by management.
• Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.
• Provides general and situation-specific architecture interpretation advice and expertise to other project and/or enterprise level I&IT project teams, client management and staff, cluster clients, and external contractors.
• Leads and or/participates in highly sensitive technology and information architecture investigations.
• Develops solution and technology architecture specifications for RFBs and participates in assessing bids and negotiating contracts/SLAs with service providers and vendors.
• Demonstrated experience developing checkpoint deliverables and creating necessary artefacts for checkpoints.
• Knowledge and experience creating architecture artefacts such as logical and information data models.
• Knowledge and experience creating business architecture documentation.
• Knowledge and experience creating solution architecture documentation.
• Knowledge and experience creating information architecture documentation.
• Extensive knowledge in security and privacy requirements as they relate to technology architecture and data elements.

General skills:

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

MUST HAVES:

• Knowledge and experience creating Business, Solution AND Information architecture documentation, as well as creating architecture artefacts such as logical and information data models.
• Defines, identifies and describes technical and information architectural requirements with clients, and obtains I&IT management approval.
• Researches, develops, implements and maintains technology and information architectural policies and standards, as approved by management.
• Ensures integration with related corporate and client cluster policies and standards, and incorporation of best practices in the industry.