Enterprise Technology Architect  

The Specialist will support Technology Services, facilitating, analysing and designing tasks required to develop the enterprise technology architecture (ETA) and to ensure that it is leveraged.
 
The Specialist will coordinate closely with enterprise application, data, information and solution architects, while virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any needed technical or business area.
 
Duties

1. Designing Data Center Infrastructure:
   • Develop and design data center infrastructure solutions that align with the organization’s strategic goals and operational needs.
   • Create comprehensive plans for server, storage, networking, and virtualization environments within the data center.
2. Implementing Solutions:
   • Oversee the implementation and deployment of data center infrastructure projects.
   • Ensure adherence to best practices, standards, and security policies during implementation.
3. Capacity Planning and Optimization:
   • Conduct capacity planning to ensure scalability and efficiency of data center resources.
   • Optimize existing infrastructure to improve performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
4. Security and Compliance:
   • Implement security measures to protect data center assets against cybersecurity threats.
   • Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) related to data management and security.
5. Monitoring and Maintenance:
   • Establish monitoring systems to track the performance and health of data center components.
   • Develop maintenance schedules and procedures to minimize downtime and ensure continuous operation.
6. Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:
   • Collaborate with internal teams (IT operations, network engineering, etc.) and external vendors to achieve project objectives.
   • Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates, gather requirements, and address concerns.
7. Documentation and Reporting:
   • Maintain accurate documentation of data center architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.
   • Generate reports on data center performance, capacity utilization, and future growth projections.
8. Develop the enterprise technology architecture (ETA) and ensure that it is leveraged:
   • Develops road maps describing the evolution of all enterprise technology portfolios from current state to future state; 
   • Analyzes enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as change requirements in other EA viewpoints, to derive the ETA change requirements to guide technology decisions for the enterprise;
   • Works closely with the Project Managers to ensure alignment of plans (including migration plans and road maps) with what is being delivered (projects);
   • Defines the principles and the models, including solution patterns, to guide technology decisions for the enterprise;   
   • Ensures that all individual solution architecture design and analysis work is documented in a structured fashion matching the EA framework and is stored in a common place;
   • Understands and advocates the principles of business and IT strategies, as well as of EA development and service delivery. 

Experience and Qualifications

• A university degree in Computer Science, or the equivalent, combined with directly related experience in a business or computer related discipline.
• 7 -10 years of hands-on design and implementation experience in at least two IT disciplines (ie. Application Development, Network Design, Middleware Design, Servers and Storage, Database Management or Operations Management).
• Significant practical experience with IT applications, in particular experience with application and technical architectures. Significant practical experience in designing and implementing enterprise systems. Significant experience in analysis, design and programming.
• Knowledge of key aspects of the business as well as knowledge of all aspects of enterprise architecture.
• Experience in a senior architectural position, managing a team of architects as well as experience working with a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Project level experience in the full lifecycle of technology implementation and configuration and effective understanding of trade-off analysis.
• Experience in project solution architecture and exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Must have the ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations, translate business needs into technology architecture requirements, estimate the financial impact of ETA and individual solution architecture alternatives, define multiple solution options to business problems and quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Well-developed interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  
• Must have or rapidly acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the Ontario Human Rights Code and Related Orders including disability accommodation and accessibility requirements pertaining to passengers and employees.
• Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting. Basic knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes as well as basic knowledge of information principles and policies.
• Understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems and an understanding of the enterprise’s political climate and how to respond to the political challenges.
• Strong understanding of network and data center architecture, as well as application development methodologies.
• Autonomous and self motivated with experience defining and executing a large-scale business and IT strategy.

 
 Deliverables
 

1. Designing Data Center Infrastructure
2. Implementing Solutions
3. Capacity Planning and Optimization
4. Security and Compliance
5. Monitoring and Maintenance
6. Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
7. Documentation and Reporting
8. Develop the enterprise technology architecture (ETA) and ensure that it is leveraged