Senior Solution Architect Full-time Job

The incumbent will join the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) architecture team as Solution Architect (SARC) for the Cloud, Security and Managed Services (MS) domains. This role is pivotal for project delivery, ensuring the charter is clear and complete, providing inputs to the project scope & boundaries, developing the Integrated Conceptual Solution (ICS) with our internal/external partners, and providing recommendations/approaches for the project. The primary focus of SARC is to make people and processes within the organization more effective by ensuring the project implements optimal end-to-end solutions.
 
Reporting to the Business Transformation and new Product Delivery Director, the incumbent will have to contribute in several phases of the project delivery such as planning, design, conception and implementation with different levels of involvement from project to project. For the transformation and new product delivery programs, the SARC will establish a vision and roadmap that interlock with the other domains in order to continuously improve customer service experience by leveraging different opportunities to move towards target architecture.
 

Key Responsibilities

•    Establish and maintain architecture vision, strategy and roadmap for our domains
•    Participate to the project planning sessions, project status meetings/scrums and lessons learned
•    Provide recommendations for project delivery approach (phasing, scoping, synergies and dependencies between initiatives, etc.)
•    Facilitate working sessions to develop Integrated Conceptual Solution that encompasses Product, Information Technology (IT), Technology Development (TD), Network and Operations sub-components
•    Manage assessment for cost, resources and systems impacts related to project
•    Ensure integrity, coherence and optimal performance of our end-to-end solutions
•    Take charge and lead resolution of complex problems that may require changes to end-to-end solution

Critical Qualifications

•    5 years' experience developing/maintaining Business/Domain Architecture; experience in analysis or strategic planning of activities
•    The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and technical drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
•    Good knowledge of Managed, Security, Contact Centre, Hosted Services, Cloud, etc.
•    Good knowledge of surveillance and monitoring platforms and service assurance
•    Strong understanding of full stack managed IT Operations including effective use of tools (cloud native and other)
•    Good knowledge of surveillance and monitoring platforms and service assurance
•    Team oriented who is able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to build bridges with technical & non-technical teams and influence others to move toward consensus
•    Strong hands-on technical skills, an analytical problem-solving mindset, ability to deal with ambiguity, delivery focus and client-orientation
•    Excellent communication skills (written, oral) and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization is required

Preferred Qualifications

•    Undergraduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent experience
•    Experience in an Agile environment is desirable
•    Experience with public cloud (AWS, GPC, or Azure) infrastructure at scale
•    Knowledge of IoT technologies
•    Knowledge of data Networking technologies like TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN, subnets, routing, switches and firewalls is desirable
•    Knowledge of architecture framework like eTOM and/or TOGAF is an asset
•    ITIL certification is an asset