Job Description

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 Professional Services markets across Canada.

Celebrating over 50 years in business, we are proud to be one of CanadaaEUR(TM)s 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 Group Consultants Inc is hiring a Senior Technical Architect to improve the efficiency, reliability, and security of the governmentaEUR(TM)s IT infrastructure, increase productivity across departments and agencies and support the vision of a modern public service.

Job Tasks:

• Develop technical architectures, frameworks and strategies, either for an organization or for a major application or solution area, to meet the business and application requirements.
• Identify the policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution.
• Analyze and evaluate alternative technology solutions to meet business problems.
• Ensures the integration of all aspects of technology solutions.
• Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions fit with government and industry directions for technology. Provide information, direction and support for emerging technologies.
• Perform impact analysis of technology changes, including documenting risks and issues and options to manage/resolve.
• Provide advice and support to project managers with respect to managing scope change and corresponding risks and issues.
• Provide support to applications and/or technical support teams in the proper application of existing infrastructure.
• Review application and program design or technical infrastructure design to ensure adherence to standards and to recommend performance improvements.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a three-year college diploma (computer science or other IT-related field; OR A university degree at the Bachelor level in Information Technology (computer science or engineering) or other IT-related field; OR A minimum of ten (10) years of work experience in the IT field.
• Minimum of ten (10) yearsaEUR(TM) experience performing tasks similar to those listed above
• Experience working as a Technology Architect on a minimum of two (2) different projects in IT organizations, with at least 2,000 employees
• Experience as a Technology Architect on over five (5) IM/IT projects valued at $3M or more in each of the following:

• Providing impact analysis and cost-benefit analysis of new processes and solutions
• Providing support to IT support teams in the proper application of existing infrastructure
• Providing IT system analysis, design, development, testing, and capacity planning
• Analyzing, evaluating, and documenting alternative technology solutions to meet business requirements
• Experience working on over five (5) projects in drafting and publishing comprehensive technology plans, identifying current technology states, challenges, and future states while considering service-oriented architectures, converging communications networks, platform optimization (mainframe and mid-tier), and Data Center consolidations (data center operations) for an enterprise-wide or public sector organization
• Over seven (7) years of experience, within the last ten years, developing technology architecture roadmaps and/or strategies for an enterprise-wide or public sector organization
• Over seven (7) years of experience conducting technology architecture reviews/assessments and providing recommended management action plan (MAP) remedial activities for an enterprise-wide or public sector organization
• Over five (5) years of experience in knowledge transfer and cross-training within a multidisciplinary organization.
• Completed training covering QualiWare Lifecycle Manager (QLM) OR at least one year of hands-on experience using QualiWare to create architecture artifacts.

Additional Information

Normal Working Hours

Normal working hours will be no earlier than 07:00 to no later than 18:00 Eastern Time Monday through Friday (with the exception of statutory holidays as defined by the province of work). The Contractor will be expected to work 7.5 hours/day within normal working hours.

Work Location

The ContractoraEUR(TM)s work will be performed on-site

Security Clearance

The proposed resource must hold a minimum of a valid Secret Security Clearance issued by PSPC-SPAC and provide both file number and expiry date at time of submission

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.

ADGA s'engage a mettre la diversite en action pour batir une equipe plus forte et plus representative et aider nos clients et nos communautes a prosperer. Nous sommes une entreprise fiarement canadienne. Nous nous engageons pour promouvoir la diversite, l'equite et l'inclusion dans le milieu de travail et d'offrir a chaque personne les possibilites et les ressources qui lui permettront de realiser son plein potentiel.