Digital Architect

Role Overview

Government of Alberta is seeking a Senior Digital Architect to provide architecture leadership across the Court Technology Services (CTS) Applications, Data & AI portfolio. The resource will support enterprise/application architecture, modernization, digital services, AMS, cloud/OpenShift, data/AI, integration, governance, and technical delivery across Alberta Courts.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop current-state/target-state architecture roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, security and technology domains.
  
• Define architecture principles, standards, patterns, guardrails and reusable components.
  
• Produce solution designs, architecture diagrams, integration models, technical assessments, decision records and implementation roadmaps.
  
• Provide technical leadership to developers, application analysts, support teams and vendors.
  
• Review technical designs, code, integrations, deployments and configurations.
  
• Support DevOps, cloud, automation, CI/CD, environment management and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
  
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops and requirements analysis.
  
• Translate business objectives into technical requirements, user stories, process models and solution options.
  
• Provide architecture and technical oversight for Application Management Services (AMS).
  
• Support major incident reviews, problem management, change advisory, release planning and production readiness.
  
• Participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) and technical governance activities.
  
• Review vendor proposals, estimates, technical designs and deliverables.
  
• Support procurement, SOWs, architecture evaluations and knowledge transfer.
  
• Define architecture approaches for data integration, analytics, reporting and AI-enabled services.
  
• Support data governance, information architecture and secure/compliant AI adoption.
  
• Present technical recommendations, risks, options and trade-offs to technical and executive stakeholders.
  
• Promote standardization, reuse, modernization, simplification and operational sustainability.
  

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• College or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  
• TOGAF certification.
  
• 8+ years leading cross-functional Agile product teams, providing architectural direction and mentoring developers/technical leads.
  
• 5+ years architecting, managing and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
  
• 8+ years identifying and assessing requirements across multiple architecture domains, including:
  • Business
    
  • Application
    
  • Technology
    
  • Data/Information
    
  • Security
    
  • Privacy
    
• 7+ years documenting application architectures in a large enterprise IT environment comparable to GoA.
  
• 7+ years planning, designing, implementing and supporting enterprise platform solutions.
  
• 8+ years providing technical leadership, planning, estimating and presenting technical solutions.
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• 5+ years collaborating with data architects, engineers and analysts to design/optimize cloud architecture and services.
  
• 5+ years developing application architecture standards and guidelines.
  
• 5+ years working with enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) hub architecture/registries.
  
• 5+ years developing enterprise solutions using amCharts.
  
• 5+ years designing/maintaining enterprise mobile solutions.
  
• 5+ years working with OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security vulnerabilities.