Job Description

Salary Grade: Grade 10 - $87,177-$104,612 per annum with eligibility for performance pay

Job Type / Duration: Permanent, Full-time

Language Requirements: English Essential

Job Location: 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Open to: Persons residing in Canada

Closing Date: September 30, 2022

Special posting considerations

You must provide a cover letter that clearly expresses the basis of your professional and personal interest in the position of Technical Architect. Your letter should also provide concrete and detailed examples that clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience criteria listed under the Essential Qualifications.

Applicants should also indicate in their application if they meet the Asset Qualifications. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties, you must list each education and experience criterion and write one or two paragraphs demonstrating that you have the required experience ensuring that clear details are provided. Failure to provide a cover letter and CV may result in the elimination of your application from this process.

Job Summary


WHO WE ARE

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is a federal government agency that provides funding to support the work of thousands of health researchers. CIHR's mission is to support a healthier Canada, and world, by investing in innovative and collaborative research, helping to solve our health care challenges today and in the future. CIHR offers excellent conditions that set the agency apart from other employers. For instance, employees enjoy:

• A competitive salary scale: performance pay and a retention bonus
• An additional three (3) days of leave with pay between December 26 and January 1
• A hybrid work model, with a great degree of flexibility, permitting staff to work remotely and achieve better work/life balance;
• Progressive work environment
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Seamless transition for public servants
• Work-life balance

JOB SUMMARY

As a Technical Architect role, you will join a highly motivated and knowledgeable team that is responsible for the technical review and oversight of requirements definition, application and infrastructure selection/acquisition, development, and deployment to ensure that all CIHR technology integrates correctly and operates reliably and securely.

As a Technical Architect you support delivery teams in the development of detailed solution roadmaps for a well-defined set of capabilities or logical group of systems, services or projects. You partner closely with the Digital and Security Services staff and project management to ensure that implementation meets design expectations. You are proactive in reaching out to architects and leaders in teams with which your technology integrates and you drive results through strong cross-functional collaboration. You serve as the organization's subject matter expert for capabilities in your portfolio. You seek organizational and government wide context and apply learnings to architecture solutions. In doing so, you lead the evaluation of alternative technology solutions, including Commercial Off the shelf (COTS). Cloud and Open-Source products that are consistent with CIHR's architectural standards, to support business solutions. You also participate and present at architecture design reviews and communicate trade-offs in different types of architecture processes.

Essential Qualifications

Education
- Graduation from a two-year program of study from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed, or acceptable combination of education experience, and training.

Experience
- *Significant experience in providing recommendations to management on **complex issues related to the delivery of Information Technology services.
- Experience as an Enterprise Architect under at least one of the following domains: Solution Architecture, Application Architecture or Technology Architecture.
- Experience working with clients to recommend IM/IT technical options or an IM/IT solution to address business or technical requirements.

*Significant experience is defined as experience associated with having performed a broad range of related activities which would normally be acquired over a period of approximately two (2) to three (3) years. However, a shorter duration may be considered based on demonstrated complexity and diversity of work handled, scope of work, and/or level of direct responsibility for a wide variety of complex files and/or projects.
**Complex issues are defined as issues having two (2) or more of the following characteristics. Multidimensional, sensitive, affecting many partners or stakeholders, precedent setting, or having a major impact on IM/IT services or products.

Knowledge
- Knowledge of current and emerging digital trends.
- Knowledge of modeling techniques for describing enterprise architectures such as UML and/or ArchiMate.
- Knowledge of one or more technical areas (data analytics, cloud applications and SaaS/PaaS/IaaS technologies, design and development of RESTful and/or SOAP services, content management systems, networking, etc.).

Competencies
- Communication (Oral and Written)
- Working with Others (Collaborating and Relationship Management)
- Adaptability
- Initiative
- Planning and Organizing
- Critical Thinking

Asset Qualifications

Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Google, Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL and/or CISSP.

Important Notes

1) The intent of this process is to staff one (1) indeterminate position. A pool of pre-qualified candidates may be established to staff future identical or similar positions within CIHR with various tenures (assignment, specified period or indeterminate), various security clearance levels and/or various bilingual linguistic profiles.

2) Application must be received through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) - process number: J0722-0703

3) We would like to thank all candidates who apply. Only those selected for assessment will be contacted. From amongst those candidates that meet the essential criteria of education and experiences; CIHR may select a certain number of candidates that most closely meet the position requirements to participate in the next selection phase.

4) CIHR is committed to the values and principles of employment equity. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, please inform us of accommodations (i.e., an alternative method of assessment, a technical aid, accessibility requirements, etc.) required at any stage of the assessment process, so that we can take the appropriate measures to facilitate your full participation.

CIHR

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system for Canadians. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 13,000 health researchers and trainees across Canada.