Description

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Digital Architect will:

• 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, architecture decision records, technical assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Evaluate technical feasibility, operational readiness, security implications, sustainability, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs.
• Support architecture governance and technical review processes.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to development teams, application analysts, support teams, and vendors.
• Review technical designs, integrations, code implementations, deployments, and solution configurations.
• Support DevOps, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, environment management, and application modernization.
• Mentor technical resources and promote architecture best practices.
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
• Gather, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements.
• Produce process models, user stories, impact assessments, requirements documentation, and solution options.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Provide architecture and technical oversight for applications within Application Management Services (AMS).
• Participate in incident reviews, problem management, service reviews, change advisory processes, release planning, deployment governance, and production-readiness reviews.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve application reliability and operational support.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board reviews and other technical governance activities.
• Evaluate project and vendor deliverables against architecture standards, security requirements, and approved patterns.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, standards, design patterns, and technical policies.
• Review vendor proposals, estimates, designs, and technical deliverables.
• Provide architecture input into procurement activities and statements of work.
• Support knowledge transfer, documentation review, and transition planning.
• Define architecture approaches for analytics, data integration, reporting platforms, and AI-enabled services.
• Support secure and compliant use of AI technologies.
• Contribute to data governance, information architecture, and platform modernization.
• Prepare architecture documents, diagrams, presentations, recommendations, standards, and executive briefings.
• Present technical risks, options, recommendations, and trade-offs to project teams, vendors, governance committees, stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Mandatory Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• College diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• TOGAF Certification.
• 8+ years of demonstrated experience leading cross-functional Agile product teams.
• 5+ years of experience architecting, managing, and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• 8+ years of experience identifying and assessing requirements across multiple architecture domains.
• 7+ years of experience documenting application architectures within an enterprise IT environment.
• 7+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and supporting platform solutions.
• 8+ years of experience providing technical leadership, planning, estimating, and presenting technical ideas and solutions.
• Conflict of Interest attestation must be completed as required.

Nice-to-Have Experience

Preference will be given to candidates with experience in:

• Designing and optimizing enterprise technology solutions in collaboration with technical and business teams.
• Developing or contributing to application architecture standards.
• Working as an Application Architect designing or maintaining enterprise solutions.
• Developing solutions using amCharts.
• Developing mobile application solutions.
• Applying OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security principles

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree