Job Description

Job ID: 34167

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Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Architecture & Portfolio Delivery
Work Location: Metro Hall 55 John St.
Job Type & Duration: 3 Temporary (12 month) vacancies
Salary: $112,000.00-$144,200.00
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
Affiliation: Non-Union
Number of Positions Open: 3
Posting Period:31-Jan-2023 to 21-Feb-2023

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As a Solution Architect specializing in architecting data management technology platform solutions, 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 data management and technology architecture program specific requirements.
• Leads, facilitates and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of corporate standards for the division, including but not limited to formalized project management and methodology, business intelligence and data warehousing architecture, data security and governance, metadata management, cloud migration, change management, and application development and data 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 support for 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.
• 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 with extensive data management experience in large scale integrated Technology Services solutions or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

• Extensive experience in producing solution architectures using leading architecture frameworks, methodologies, standards and best practices such as TOGAF and SAFe.

• Extensive experience in designing a wide range of end-to-end data management and data protection solutions for the implementation of technologies such as Tableau, SAP Intelligence Suite and Analytics Cloud products, AWS data management service product, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, and Veritas data protection products.

• Extensive experience in developing technology roadmaps based on the goals and objectives from business transformation and technology strategies.

• Project management experience in all stages of complex technology implementation projects, including but not limited to responsibilities for estimating costs, resources and identifying the critical path in a large and diverse computing environment.

• 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 Oracle to Data management is an asset

• Experience in architecting and/or implementing solutions based on IBM Maximo is an asset

• Experience in architecting and/or implementing solutions using automation with software CI/DC is an asset

Note To Current City of Toronto Employees
City of Toronto employees are eligible to apply for the posted job opportunity, but cannot hold two different jobs. To be considered for this job posting, you must indicate that you are a "Current City of Toronto employee" on the on-line application form, and provide your "Employee Number".


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