Application Architecture Technologist

Government of Saskatchewan; Regina; On-site; CAD 46,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

The Government of Saskatchewan is seeking an Application Architecture Technologist to enhance application lifecycle management. This role involves collaboration with senior management, technical advice, and documentation of application processes. Ideal candidates will have a background in application development and strong communication skills.

Benefits

Pension plan

Vacation

Scheduled days off

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave

Family/Personal leave

Sick leave

Qualifications

• 3+ years of IT application development and management experience.
• Experience in IT due diligence and organizational integration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with senior managers to determine application needs.
• Creating and maintaining documentation for application architecture.
• Planning and managing a portfolio of application services.

Skills

Communication

Application Development

Collaboration

Technical Advice

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Location(s)

Ministry

013 Saskbuilds and ProcurementSalary Range : $46.367- $56.448HourlySalary Supplement : included in hourly salary range (in-scope)Grade : SGEU.12.

About Us

The Information Technology Division (ITD) of the Ministry of SaskBuilds and Procurement (SBP) supplies a full range of IT services to government ministries and agencies. It supports government customers with help desk, hardware and software, application development and IT security services. The ITD also sets government-wide policies and standards in IT infrastructure, IT support services and security.

The Application Portfolio Management (APM) team provides the day-to-day operations, governance and support for application data, processes and reporting in support of application lifecycle management leading and driving a customer-focused, practical, and secure culture throughout the team to deepen client relationships and leverage systems and knowledge. The APM team strives to develop strong partnerships with peers, technology leads and leaders across ITD / SBP in order to manage application risk and investment as they are accountable for delivering the vision and strategy for the APM roadmap.

The Opportunity

The Citizen-Centric Program Delivery Branch within ITD is actively seeking an effective communicator and cross-team collaborator for the role of Application Architecture Technologist. Reporting to a Senior Planner, Application Portfolio Manager, you will ensure the suite of applications being used by an organization to create the composite architecture is scalable, reliable, available, and manageable. The Application Architect Technologist will be responsible for defining how multiple applications are poised to work together. You will be consulting with senior business managers on application requirements, incorporating desired functionalities into application roadmaps and investment plans, and supervising application development stages.

To ensure success as an application architecture technologist, you should exhibit extensive application development knowledge and experience in evaluating business needs. A top-notch Application Architect Technologist will be someone whose expertise in application architecture translates into optimized business operations.

Application Architect Technologist Responsibilities :

• Collaborating with senior managers to determine business-specific application needs and advise senior executives in government on all aspects of applications support and lifecycle management.
• Elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the growth, enhancement and maintenance-related business needs of stakeholders while collaborating with cross functional teams and vendors assimilating into application roadmaps and plans for new or existing applications.
• Create and maintain documentation surrounding the application architecture, application design processes, component integration, testing guidelines and other key elements.
• Act as an ambassador between tech departments and business-side units.
• Planning and managing a portfolio of application services aligned to client accounts with the support of the technical / operational / delivery support teams.
• Present roadmaps and plans to the application development and solutions architecture team and supervising the design, testing, and modification stages.
• Documenting application development processes, procedures, and standards.
• Integrating trends in application architecture in application development project while maintaining superior knowledge of IT technology landscape.
• Supply technical advice to 3rd party vendors / partners.

The ideal applicant will be technically strong with excellent communication skills and will work with team members throughout all processes of the project lifecycle in some capacity. As an Application Architect Technologist, you will be working with clients and design teams to discuss project plans, designs, schedules and proposals, and work according to these to produce high quality working drawing packages, roadmaps, implementation documents, and blueprints to guide project initiation and onboarding, and to inform detailed solution architecture. You will use your 2 - 8 years of professional experience in application development / architectural design with exceptional skills in application lifecycle road mapping and preparation of application related artifacts to do mark ups and changes to ensure conceived projects are finished as per plan and accurately documented. Candidates must also have a thorough knowledge of ITSM, Enterprise Architecture frameworks, with the ability to work independently, developing and coordinating application plans and document checking. Some contract administration work will also be undertaken with support from senior staff.

Application Architect Technologist Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science with a specialization in software engineering, application development, or similar.
• 3+ years of IT application development and management experience.
• TOGAF or other Enterprise Architecture certification is an advantage.
• Between 2 and 8 years' experience as an Architectural Technologist, with at least 2-3 years of experience from North America.
• Be currently living and able to work permanently in Canada.
• Experience in IT due diligence, divisional and organizational integration relating to operations and IT.
• Some Project management experience is desirable but not essential.
• Technical education and hands-on experience across all major areas of the software development process as well infrastructure expertise and ITSM.
• Architecture experience and security knowledge is appreciated.
• Excellent communication skills, desire to learn and grow.
• Strong self-awareness skills and political agility.

What We Offer :

• Dynamic, challenging work for talented individuals.
• Inclusive work environments.
• Pension plan.
• Vacation, scheduled days off (SDO) and other types of leave (maternity / paternity / adoption, family / personal leave, sick leave).

We are committed to workplace diversity.Hours of Work : A - SGEU Office 36 - one day off every two weeks