Company Description
Founded in 1967, ADGA is a privately owned and operated Canadian company. We employ over 700 highly skilled team members who apply their knowledge and expertise in service delivery of advanced technology solutions for clients in the Defence, Security and Enterprise Computing markets across Canada. Celebrating over 50 years in business, we are proud to be one of Canada\xe2\x80\x99s most trusted professional engineering and consultancy firms. Our clients continue to rely on ADGA to provide subject matter expertise, and quality talent to fulfill their business objectives. We have done so successfully by anticipating and responding to the constant changes in technology and evolving with agility. Our culture of commitment, trust, and accountability guides our business, fosters our growth, and is at the core of our relationships with clients, employees and consultants. Whether your projects are complex, large-scale requirements, or dependable, professional resources to execute on time, and on budget, you can count on ADGA to deliver. We are dedicated to your success.


ADGA requires the services of a Senior Solutions Architect who will be responsible for supporting and implementing the strategic/technology roadmap and helping the Digital Service Team in technology solutioning, planning, and executing the roadmap initiatives to drive the business goals. Specific tasks to be performed by the candidate must include: Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively defines and regularly updates and maintains meaningful metrics that reflect the condition level of software applications, i.e., their technical and functional state of good repair, and alignment with the SE&I digital strategy and target state architecture.
• Recommends specific upgrade, remediation, replacement, or retirement actions to ensure that all applications stay above the desired condition level, and control and measurably reduce the application portfolio\xe2\x80\x99s overall technical debt.
• Actively collaborates with IT Solutions leadership and relevant SE&I and client stakeholders to:
  • Provide technology roadmaps and strategic planning in support of evolving DST program goals and objectives.
  • Provide application assessment work and recommendations for effective short- and medium-term Application Portfolio upgrade and replacement projects, including recommended phased approaches to align with more complex long-term technology transitions.
  • Creates solution design documents and collaboratively provides direction and oversight for effective and secure solutions, ensuring robust interoperability with other relevant regional systems, and conformance to the SE&I quality assurance, IT security and enterprise architecture principles, and to the SE&I Digital Strategy.
• Reviews related requirements and configuration documents received from approved third parties, to ensure compliance with IT security and infrastructure policies, standards, and procedures.
• Analyses, designs, and monitors technologies that support existing line of business capabilities.
• Develops, updates, and maintains the architecture blueprint that will include as-is architecture, target architecture, and architecture evolution roadmap (1-5 years) aligned with planned projects.
• Defines, designs, develops, and maintains comprehensive architectures & standards, and application components (up/downstream interfaces, user interface, report, application logic, data access and secure network integrity) in coordination with stakeholder list.
• Updates and maintains an accessible repository for reference models and project-related architectural and application development materials related to DST.
• Reviews all design documents for new or upgraded application and integration projects to ensure compliance with architectural policies, standards, and procedures, and AODA compliant.
• Provides technical leadership throughout DST project lifecycles.
• Works closely with all project team members to understand, document, and confirm requirements.
• Designs a system which takes into consideration the ease of maintenance, performance, and compatibility with existing systems.
• Provides advice and guidance to platform technical team members by providing mentoring and coaching.
• Provides architecture review of existing methods making recommendations of performance & scalability improvements, management updates and standards injection.
• Provides expert information architecture technical support for DST products relating to data management and data handling.
• Develops logical data models, data accountability, logical database tables and maps logical data models to databases.

Qualifications

• University or college graduate in Computer Science with a post-bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s certificate/diploma in Application Development or related disciplines.
• A minimum of 5 years advanced development experience with ITIL, COBIT, application development, spatial database modeling & design, and information architecture.
• Certification and proven experience in architecting, designing, and implementing high performance and scalable enterprise level systems and the ability to evaluate how the solution will best meet its functional and quality requirements.
• Experience in Municipal/Provincial/Federal Public Works application architecture and optimization initiatives preferred.
• Proven experience with object-oriented analysis, design, and programming, unified modeling language, model driven architecture, design patterns, service-oriented architecture, and business plan modeling.
• Expert knowledge and proficiency with any of the following:
  • IT Infrastructure Library
  • Control Objectives for Information Technologies
  • Integration techniques and Service Oriented Architectures
  • Technology asset life cycle including performance management, preventive maintenance and security
• Experience in application development and programming using Java, C#, or .NET.
• Experience with industry-standard technologies such as Java, XML, JSON, JSON, JavaScript, HTML5, Web services, SOAP/REST, application servers, and/or Web servers.
• Experience with SQL and Enterprise Asset Management databases (DB2, Oracle and SQL Server).
• Demonstrated ability to develop complex models that meet architectural specifications, learn new technologies, assist in code reviews, and write documentation in approved formats.
• Extensive experience in leading and facilitating architectural design sessions with business area experts, managers, and senior managers.
• Highly developed writing skills to author complex specification documents, blueprints, and proposals.
• Understanding of emerging technologies, business re-engineering principles and processes, business drivers and business strategy.
• Progressive technical knowledge and knowledge of best practices in Information Technology service delivery such as SDLC, PMBOK, COBIT and ITIL.
• PMBOK, COBIT and ITIL certifications.

Additional Information

ADGA commits to putting diversity into action to build a stronger, more representative team and help our customers and communities thrive. We are a proudly Canadian company, striving to further diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and provide every individual with the opportunities and resources to help them reach their full potential. Since being acquired by Commissionaires Ottawa, ADGA has adopted the social mandate of Commissionaires to create meaningful employment opportunities and generate financial resources for veterans of the CAF, RCMP, their families, and fellow citizens who share a passion to contribute to the security and well-being of Canadians. ADGA s\'engage \xc3\xa0 mettre la diversit\xc3\xa9 en action pour b\xc3\xa2tir une \xc3\xa9quipe plus forte et plus repr\xc3\xa9sentative et aider nos clients et nos communaut\xc3\xa9s \xc3\xa0 prosp\xc3\xa9rer. Nous sommes une entreprise fi\xc3\xa8rement canadienne. Nous nous engageons pour promouvoir la diversit\xc3\xa9, l\'\xc3\xa9quit\xc3\xa9 et l\'inclusion dans le milieu de travail et d\'offrir \xc3\xa0 chaque personne les possibilit\xc3\xa9s et les ressources qui lui permettront de r\xc3\xa9aliser son plein potentiel. Depuis son acquisition par Les Commissionnaires Ottawa, ADGA a adopt\xc3\xa9 le mandat social de Les Commissionnaires qui consiste \xc3\xa0 cr\xc3\xa9er des possibilit\xc3\xa9s d\'emploi significatives et \xc3\xa0 g\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9rer des ressources financi\xc3\xa8res pour les anciens combattants des FAC, de la GRC, leurs familles et leurs concitoyens qui partagent la passion de contribuer \xc3\xa0 la s\xc3\xa9curit\xc3\xa9 et au bien-\xc3\xaatre des Canadiens.