Enterprise Architect

Q1 Technologies, Inc.

Edmonton

On-site

CAD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Canada is seeking a Mid-Senior Level Architect. The role involves defining technical architecture, supporting cloud services, and engaging stakeholders across various departments. Successful candidates will have significant experience in cloud technologies and the ability to draft strategic documentation. This is a contract position with a duration from October 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.

Qualifications

Must have a degree in Computing Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
6+ years of related experience in architecture.
3+ years developing on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Define overall architecture vision and strategy.
Guide and support business intelligence activities.
Assist in defining governance structures for business transformation.

Skills

Experience with cloud platforms

Technical architecture definition

Stakeholder engagement

Software development processes

Process improvement

Troubleshooting

Strategic documentation

Education

University graduation in CS, IT, ENG, or related discipline

Tools

M365 products

Microsoft Power Platforms

Job description

Overview

Direct message the job poster from Q1 Technologies, Inc.

Location: Edmonton, AB Remote

Contract Duration: 01/10/2025 to 31/03/2026

Client: GOA (Government of Alberta)

Job Id: GOAPRDJP00000651

Duties

This role is responsible for understanding, describing translating the GOA’s needs into an overall architecture vision, strategy and a set of architecture principles. This includes the active communication and promotion of the vision, strategy and principles. This role is also responsible for defining the enterprise architecture framework in order to avoid redundancy, have integrated, cost-effective solutions and provide a common foundation for all system, service and infrastructure developments.

Guide and assist in enablement of business and technology programs and project plans, business cases, roadmaps and other supporting activities.

Guide and support business activity monitoring and business intelligence (analysis and reporting) activities.
Support linkages to Government of Alberta strategies and goals.
Guide and support business, process, application and technology integration activities with other Government of Alberta departments and external stakeholder groups.
Assist in defining governance and organization design to support new structures, processes, and approaches resulting from business and technology transformation.
Support internal and external stakeholder engagement workshops and meetings.
Support program management and change management leads in the successful delivery of business and technical initiatives.
Provide leadership and guidance to business and project teams that require architectural and technical support.
Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work as required.

Required Skill Matrix

Must Have

Education

Yes/No - The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following combinations of education…

Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:

Yes

• University graduation-Computing Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), Engineering (ENG), Management Information Systems (MIS) or related discipline & 6-yrs progressive related experience;

• 2-yr diploma-CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 8-yrs progressive related experience;

• 1-yr certificate-CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 9-yrs progressive related experience;

• 10-yrs progressive related experience

Work Experience

Duration - Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development...

Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development and in solutions.

3 years

Duration - Experience in defining technical architecture, building technical environments...

Experience in defining technical architecture, building technical environments, supporting software development processes and initiatives, software configuration and database management.

5 years

Duration - Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across...

Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across ministries or departments.

5 years

Experience in multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology, data/information, security, and privacy.

3 years

Duration - Experience with process improvement, documentation and requirement gathering

Experience with process improvement, documentation and requirement gathering

5 years

Duration - Experience with triaging technical issues/problems and troubleshooting.

Experience with triaging technical issues/problems and troubleshooting.

3 years

Duration - Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in...

Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation.

5 years

Nice to Have

Work Experience

Duration - Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing M365 products...

Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing M365 products and services, either on-premises or in a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service environment.

1 years

Duration - Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing Microsoft...

Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing Microsoft Power Platforms products and services, either on-premises or in a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service environment.

1 years

Duration - Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting applications in...

Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting applications in an enterprise environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.

5 years

Duration - Experience in designing architecture to support remote work and/or field-based workers.

Experience in designing architecture to support remote work and/or field-based workers.

5 years

Duration - Experience in developing new IT services including the development of service...

Experience in developing new IT services including the development of service definitions, service measurements, cost models, processes, implementation and operational hand over.

3 years

Duration - Experience in IT infrastructure architecture and the relationships among the...

Experience in IT infrastructure architecture and the relationships among the components that make up an IT service from end-user devices to servers, networks, storage, applications and data.

1 years

Duration - Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions.

Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions.

3 years

Duration - Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT...

Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT application development and maintenance projects.

3 years

Duration - Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex...

Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

3 years

Duration - Experience working within an agile development environment.

Experience working within an agile development environment.

2 years

Duration - Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, use case or...

Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, use case or scenario development, communication, presentations, planning, estimating, and documentation.

3 years

Seniority level