Digital Architect

V R Della Infotech Inc; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

V R Della Infotech Inc. seeks up to three Digital Architects to work with GoA service innovation, program review and digital transformation projects.

The Digital Architect will guide architecture across cross-functional teams, focusing on citizen-centered design and agile delivery of digital services. The role involves developing architectural plans, ensuring alignment to a common vision, mentoring team members, reviewing code, and enabling rapid, iterative delivery of user-centric services

Qualifications

• Strong technical understanding of current and emerging technologies with business acumen and project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall architectural plan with citizen-centered design and agile software approach.
• Provide and be accountable for the solution designs and iterative implementation.
• Review code changes and contribute to code changes to implement user stories.
• Coach and mentor the product team and guide allocation of team capacity between user stories and technical tasks.
• Contribute to the architectural vision for a platform of user-centric services.

Skills

Architectural design

Agile

Software architecture

Job description

Required upto three (3) Digital Architects to work with 3D on service innovation, program review and digital transformation projects across the GoA. The Digital Architect will work as part of cross-functional program review or product delivery teams. These teams, led by product owners and 3D work collaboratively and collectively participate in a full range of activities including: field research, backlog definition and refinement, and sprint planning and execution. Digital transformation projects review the current state of services, identify future opportunities, and then deliver new services that are efficient, effective and affordable. A Digital Architect provides architectural expertise and strategic guidance and is responsible for overseeing the software architecture of digital services, the alignment of services to a common architecture vision, and the iterative delivery of solutions to create a complete digital service. The Digital Architects will guide the team in the rapid, iterative delivery of user-centric services with solution designs that align to the overall architectural vision and are in support of technical standards, coding standards, common tools and platforms. The Digital Architect will also guide the product owner and team in balancing the allocation of team capacity between user stories and technical tasks. The Digital Architects may perform some development work if needed. Therefore, a Digital Architect must have a strong technical understanding of current and emerging technologies, balanced with strong business acumen and project leadership skills.

Scope of Services

The following must be delivered (iteratively) over the course of the project:

• o Developing the overall architectural plan, ensuring a citizen-centered design and agile software approach; o Uncovering existing system context;
• o Providing recommendations and prototypes for technical discovery and feasibility;
• o Providing and being accountable for the solution designs that account for iterative implementation; and o Analyzing impacts, exposure, and risk as it pertains to the solution design.
• Guide the team in the implementation of digital services by: o Facilitating frequent delivery of products to ensure that the target architecture is successfully created; o Determining the tactical approach on each integration and the target state of system boundaries and interactions; o Identifying opportunities to leverage common components and capabilities of other digital services; o Encouraging team contribution towards developing opportunities to leverage other digital services; o Providing guidance on the creation of detailed designs for solution implementation; o Reviewing code changes; o Contributing to code changes in order to implement user stories and to complete technical tasks; and o Providing coaching and mentorship to the product team.
• Contribute to the architectural vision for a platform of user-centric services, particularly as it relates to the use of common components and capabilities to accelerate service delivery.
• Contribute to the development of principles, metrics, and standards for service quality and delivery.
• Provide software architecture information to technical and non-technical audiences by creating materials (documents, diagrams, presentations, etc.) appropriate to the audience.
• Actively participate in the development and continuous improvement of the architecture practice.