Applications Architect

Job title:

Applications Architect

Company

Randstad

Job description

Role Overview
Reporting to the Lead Applications Architect within ITS Enterprise Applications, the Applications Architect collaborates with business partners and ITS to understand and achieve desired business outcomes across all campuses. The role involves integrating the “big picture” of enterprise application platforms, services, and technology, and creating effective plans for current and future application architecture development and integrations. This includes leveraging best practices for technology design, configuration, and deployment across various enterprise applications such as the Student Information System (SIS), Financial Information System (FIS), Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Digital Identity (DI) systems, Digital Experience Platform (DXP) systems, and related integrations.The Applications Architect provides strategic advice to senior management on organizing enterprise digital assets to manage risk, achieve business outcomes, andoptimize the client experience. This involves a diverse set of enterprise platforms, services, and integrations to meet the college’s varied business needs.Skills

• Knowledge of applications architecture, strategic planning, database

concepts, virtualization, cloud computing, and integration in an enterprise

• IT environment
• Awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture-

related technical and business planning

• Strong client relations skills to meet diverse client business needs
• Working knowledge of technology delivery methodologies such as Agile

and Scrum

• Superior analytical skills and the ability to develop relevant strategies and

architectural guidance

• Extensive experience in the delivery of business application and

integration/web service solutions in a large, complex organization

• Strong familiarity with cloud and on-premise application platforms,

development environments, database management systems and
infrastructure

• One of more of these certifications is an asset that should be highlighted

in your application: AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification,

• Azure Solutions Architect Professional Certification, Salesforce Application
• Architect, Acquia Cloud Certification.

Advantages
Work for an organization in the eduction sector to build a platform that will help in creating digital campuses. simplify and personalize the experience for prospects, applicants, students, learners, and alumni as they explore what the client has to offer and access services.Responsibilities
Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior administration and campus clients,
• ensuring project alignment with college and digital innovation objectives
• Serve as the primary contact for application architecture consultations,
• defining, evaluating, and recommending architecture requirements and
• strategies, including application integration and interface design
• Provide architecture expertise to support college-wide operations,
• understanding clients core business and service architectures
• Leads technology change to deliver business outcomes while also virtually
• leveraging subject matter experts from any other needed technical area
• Oversees, or consults on, technology implementation and modification
• activities (e.g., projects and products), particularly for new or shared
• infrastructure solutions
• Recommend new technologies to support ITS and clients Strategic
• Plan and Digital Campus Plan
• Present and advocate for new approaches and ideas to senior
• management, overseeing technical solution development for portfolio
• requirements

Advisory and Consultation

• Provide confidential strategic advice to senior management for key
• business proposals, addressing ambiguity, staffing impacts, labour
• relations, and competitive advantage
• Advise on application architecture approaches and issues, developing
• plans, solutions, and business models, and anticipating future needs.
• Support collaboration between ITS teams on strategic integration and
• standards development
• Participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums
• Identify opportunities for alignment and optimization of technology
• strategies to reduce duplication, manage risk and enable enterprise-wide
• delivery of services and solutions.

Research and Development

• Research and assess applications architecture, integration models, usage
• patterns, systems analysis/design, and risk management
• Explore and identify trends impacting digital architecture planning
• Address competing priorities, new technologies, expanding services, and
• client requests
• Recommend application architectures to meet current and future client
• requirements and core business needs
• Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing,
• new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and
• operating models
• Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation
• to drive targeted business outcomes while ensuring nonfunctional
• requirements are met
• Support the Digital Architecture Risk Review Team (DARRT) as a Digital
• Architect subject matter expert.

• Standardization and Governance

• Implement application architecture standards, ensuring consistency in

integration and deployment

• Monitor and report on procedures, processes, methods, techniques, and

controls, recommending new/revised standards

• Suggest expanded services, new processes, and standardized operational

procedures to meet evolving business needs.Continuous Improvement

• Implement state-of-the-art approaches to enhance enterprise applications

ability to deliver on business objectives

• Support growth in services/applications supported by ITS Enterprise

Applications

• Provide advice on increasingly complex hybrid and cloud enterprise

applications

• Develop performance metrics for applications architecture evaluation and

continuous improvement

• Explore and advise on action plans, strategies, and technologies for

continuous improvement

• Promote collaboration across ITS

Qualifications
Qualifications
A 4-year degree in Information Technology or a related field from a recognized institution, or equivalent training and experience in ERP applications architecture planning, development, integration, and deployment in an enterprise-wide environment.Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in a progressively complex enterprise systems environment
• Experience in the architecture and operation of leading DXP/CMS systems such as Acquia Cloud and Drupal multi-site is an asset. Higher education or public sector experience is highly desirable.

Summary
The Applications Architect provides strategic advice to senior management on organizing enterprise digital assets to manage risk, achieve business outcomes, and
optimize the client experience. This involves a diverse set of enterprise platforms, services, and integrations to meet the college’s varied business needs.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

Expected salary

Location

Etobicoke, ON

Job date

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:21:43 GMT

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