Digital Architecture Consultant

at  CGI

Ready to join an outstanding culture that cares about diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, and gives the freedom to innovate, influence decisions, and chart an exciting career?
CGI is more than just an IT company. Be part of a team that supports the local community with the ability to draw on global best-in-class talent! Benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training and development programs, and flexible work schedules and locations.
Digital solution architects are the blueprint creator for an organization’s digital transformation. They bridge the gap between business strategy and technology implementation. They craft and develop a technical architecture to integrate technology to produce a complete business solution. Their tasks reach from applications’ architecture to databases, as well as their logical interdependencies with business processes.

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for definition and continuous improvement of solution architecture and governance frameworks.
• Responsible for development of architecture roadmap and strategy for improving the technology landscape that helps achieve business outcomes
• Perform dependency analysis, opportunity assessment and provide architectural recommendations based on different projects and enhancements.
• Works closely with enterprise architecture group in developing and maintaining the technology modernization plan and exercises proper architecture planning to ensure alignment with the enterprise architecture
• Design architectures to allow incremental and orderly development of IT capabilities that deliver business value and are aligned with business priorities.
• Perform impact analysis on business and applications relating to changes in technologies, platforms, and shared services.
• Lead or participate in proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Innovative in problem solving/ troubleshooting
• Work independently and/ or on high-functioning agile teams as the solution architect and create requirements, designs and other architectural deliverables.
• Provide architectural guidance and leadership to teams and individuals, as appropriate
• Understand and respect procedures and policies such as project management or product management, configuration management, and version management
• Collaborate with the project manager in preparing project deliverables including business cases, briefing notes, risk reports etc.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders and provide recommendations and creative alternatives to the business,
• Provide oversight, guidance, and direction to the project team in all architecture domains pertaining to application, business, data, technology and security.
• Keep current on technology trends, industry innovations, emerging best practices, being an advocate and champion for cutting edge technology
• Attend conferences and participate in the local development community to bring modern and relevant solutions to our clients, be innovative and forward-thinking when developing solutions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

• Demonstrated ability in solution architecture, working with strategic or commercial applications and solutions
• In-depth knowledge of solution architecture concepts and methods
• Experience in application development in a hands-on technical role, such as developer or database administrator
• Experience in the design and development of integration components to integrate COTS products with enterprise services
• Experience modeling sophisticated business processes and translating them into understandable IT architectures and designs
• Able to explain highly complex technology concepts in non-technical terms
• Experience in the design and development of systems and service-oriented architecture (SOA) focusing on scalability, high performance, and optimization
• Demonstrated experience in leading the development of solution architectures for the replacement of and/or integrating new solutions with legacy mainframe-based applications
• Proven experience in architecture planning, management, associated methods, and processes
• Experience with the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
• Demonstrated experience conducting and documenting vulnerability and code assessments
• Degree in IT, computer science, software development, or another related field
• IT and architecture certifications (e.g. Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Architecture Certification, TOGAF)
• Hands-on development experience with:
  o Front-end frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue
  o Programing in .NET
  o Relational database development, preference is SQL Server
  o Implementing highly scalable solutions on Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
  o Containers and platforms such as OpenShift
  o Application deployment automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and/or Azure DevOps
  o Setup and use of Git and GitHub
  o Working in an agile development environment

o Setting up and configuring supporting technology and infrastructure such as proxies, web servers, certificates, etc.

• Experience leading a technical team