Solution Architect

Tammy Boyko and Carlan Wilbon are seeking an experienced Solution Architect for a remote long-term contract opportunity with our Government client based in Winnipeg. This position begins with a 6-month term, with an expected total duration of 24 months.

This is your opportunity to make a significant impact in the public sector while advancing your career. Apply now to join a dynamic team and contribute to exciting and meaningful projects!

The Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solution’s life-cycle stages.

Benefits & Perks

• Immediate long term role as a remote Solution Architect 
• Potential to extend  

Responsibilities

• Document the business drivers, client area processes, and how those processes contribute to the achievement of the area’s business goals.
• Analyze the business needs of clients and stakeholders to propose potential solutions both technical and non-technical.
• Lead the translation of business requirements into high-level design specifications.
• Design and document cost effective, innovative and operationally supportable solutions.
• Document the structure, connections, and relationships of business processes, organizational work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, applications interfaces, infrastructure, and network topology.
• Design solutions that recognize and adapt to the business, technical, and financial constraints.
• Develop solutions that recognize IT operational limitations and opportunities.
• Document the effort, risk, costs, and complexity of potential solutions.
• Research and write discussion documents on such topics as emerging technologies, vendors, functionality and reliability of products, and service offerings.
• Review proposed solution architectures and ensure they align with overall enterprise architecture roadmaps, standards, designs, and strategies.
• Ensure solution architectures meet business objectives for availability, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, manageability, and security.
• Other architect duties as assigned.
• Criminal background check is required. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience working in technical Information Technology roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience developing solution architectures on projects across n-tiered platforms.
• Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques, data management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools.
• Expert knowledge and experience in Dynamics CRM and Platforms.
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and /or experience with Salesforce Service Cloud CRM Platforms.
• Experience with Low Code platforms associated with above CRM solutions.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multi-platform, competing technologies, SaaS and PaaS, Software as a Service).
• Experience working with Cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of Azure Architecture (NSG, Firewall, Monitoring, Subscriptions, Key Vault, Security Controls, Authentication).
• Knowledge of process re-engineering principles, requirements gathering, and middleware managementAbility to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences.
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent customer service skills and communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills.

It is preferred that the Resource has the following qualifications or experience:

• Experience with enterprise Content Management platforms.
• Experience with Portal technology; in particular self-serve capabilities.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Business Intelligence including platforms such as Power BI.

David Aplin & Associates Inc., operating as Aplin, and its associated brands, CompuStaff and Impact Recruitment, is an award-winning employment agency connecting diverse, top-tier talent with exceptional organizations across North America. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and charge no fees to apply or engage with our recruiters. Our clients partner with us to help expand and diversify their teams. Please note that all applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, including holding any necessary work permits.