Solution Architect

at  National Research Council Canada

Priority may be given to the following designated employment equity groups: women, Indigenous peoples* (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), persons with disabilities and racialized persons*.

• The Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

Candidates are asked to self-declare when applying to this hiring process.
City: Ottawa
Organizational Unit: Construction
Classification: CS-3
Tenure: Term
Duration: 4 years
Language Requirements: English

EDUCATION

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from a recognized University or a Technical College diploma in Computer Science or a related field.
An equivalent combination of education and direct experience may be considered.
Power Platform or Azure related certifications may be considered an asset.
For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience in the design, development and deployment of solutions using .NET, Azure Services (e.g. Azure AD B2C / B2B, Logic Apps, Functions, Data Factory, Data Lake), Power Platform and SharePoint
• Significant experience working with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps or similar
• Significant experience with designing and implementing data management solutions, including databases and tools such as SQL, NoSQL (e.g. Azure CosmosDB), SSIS, Dataverse
• Significant experience with planning and implementing integrations and data exchanges, such as API development, API management (e.g. Azure APIM) and ETL tools (e.g. Kingswaysoft)
• Experience with planning and configuring Power Platform solutions, including Power Automate flows, Power Pages and Power Apps
• Experience with programming languages / frameworks such as Javascript, CSS, Python, React and C/C#
• Experience with solution architecture related tasks for the implementation of hybrid solutions (on-premise and cloud), may be considered an asset
• Experience with solution architecture related tasks on projects involving the replacement of legacy systems, including new solution implementation, data migration and transition, may be considered an asset
• Experience with XML/XSD and related structured content management systems for technical documentation, may be considered an asset

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

English
Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

We are looking for a senior Solution Architect to contribute to the design, deployment and enhancement of Construction Research Centre’s target state integration and expansion of digital platforms and content, including Microsoft Power Platform, Azure and commercial applications such as a Component Content Management System. The Solution Architect would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.
We are looking for a creative and detail-oriented individual to join our Information Systems team, bringing complementary skills and experience to the team as we design and implement new solutions to digitalize regulatory and specification content, and new platforms to support digital construction processes and tools, as part of broader digitalization and decarbonization initiatives the Construction Research Centre.
The successful candidate would bring an enthusiasm for building solutions that are forward thinking with considerations for re-use, maintainability and extensibility; someone to provide expert advice, research, analysis, development and design of applications, data tools, integrations and related strategies.

The successful candidate is someone who can be counted on to:

• Lead or contribute to the design of applications, portals (internal and external), data management tools, microservices and integrations.
• Lead or contribute to the development and implementation of an API and data management solutions to support new digital construction capabilities, including integrations with third party data sets, harmonized data standards and interoperability for Building Information Modeling and Common Data Environments.
• Interpret business requirements in order to develop technical requirements and solution architecture.
• Build proof-of-concepts to validate and refine solution design.
• Investigate new technology, including new or updated Power Platform, Azure or Fabric applications, features or services.
• Participates in project teams and working groups composed of Information Systems team members, management and subject matter experts to define use cases, requirements, target state design and implementation plans for emerging digital construction capabilities.
• Develop and evolve a holistic data model across NRC Construction structured data, semi-structured content (e.g. XML), unstructured content, and metadata.
• Collaborate with the NRC Knowledge & Information Technology Services (KITS) and Security teams to set-up new cloud resources/tools based on requirements, and support security assessment and associated technical documentation.