Job Description

Job Type: Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs): 8

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Systems

# of Open Positions: 1

Faculty/Service - Department: Enterprise Architecture

Campus: 143 S\xc3\xa9raphin-Marion

Union Affiliation: N/A

Date Posted: July 06, 2023

Closing Date: July 17, 2023

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above

Hours per week: 35

Salary Grade: Non-Union Grade NM3

Salary Range: $118,010.00 - $143,659.00

About Information Technology:

Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It\xe2\x80\x99ll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

Position Purpose
Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture, the incumbent provides senior solution architecture leadership and enterprise level advice to the organization, across a broad set of portfolios including teaching and learning, library, research support, administration. The Solution Architect is responsible for translating overarching business requirements and designing, defining and implementing solutions to ensure that the University\xe2\x80\x99s business solutions are implemented consistently, based on best practices and enterprise architecture principles, within budget, and maximize the value of the University\xe2\x80\x99s technology investments. Ensures alignment with the Enterprise Architecture principles and priorities, and balances competing priorities and business needs against security and performance requirements.

Collaborates deeply with several business owners, and project teams, acting as visionary to provide the direction and to define the solution roadmap for the use of appropriate and sustainable business solutions.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the design, development and communication of solutions architecture guidelines, standards, patterns and best practices across the University teaching and learning solution portfolio.
• Provide professional leadership and advice for business solutions as appropriate from strategic decision-making to the project planning level.
• Develop and drive the review of designs for business solutions through the enterprise architecture review process and actively participate in the Architecture Review Board and the Architecture Working Group.
• Create and document technical architectures for business solutions to enable streamlined application interfaces, improved application redundancy and efficient distribution of data in support of University objectives.
• Identify, select and prioritize solutions including major enhancements and changes to current interfaces.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent;
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience with solution architecture strategy and design consulting and supporting large scale systems in a multi-platform environment;
• Expert knowledge of concepts and philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies;
• Proven record of applying common solutions patterns, middleware solutions;
• Demonstrated development experience with enterprise platforms and solutions, preferably within the higher education sector;
• Demonstrated experience with data integration and integrating software-as-a-service solutions through APIs;
• Experience working in a diverse work environment, with a broad understanding of multiple business sectors, hardware and software technologies, data- and information-management practices, and cybersecurity;
• Knowledge of numerous leading vendor solutions platforms, such as M365, Azure, AWS, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Workday, D2L, as well as mainstream open-source frameworks and products;
• Ability to apply project management methods and processes to define, plan, cost, resource, track and ensure the accomplishment of targeted goals;
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in team environments;
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in a non-technical manner with strong business acumen and influence skills;
• Ability to proactively keep abreast of new and emerging trends and technologies in teaching and learning;
• Bilingualism \xe2\x80\x93 French and English (written and spoken).

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 \xe2\x80\x93 Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.

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