Sr. Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Cloud

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As we grow our team, the well-being of our team members remains our top priority. To ensure the health and safety of our team members, including those in the recruitment process, our team members are working from home, and are equipped to do so safely and efficiently.

The Enterprise Architecture team is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to provide architectural support for Infrastructure and Cloud domain. The Infrastructure and Cloud Architect produces enterprise standards, patterns, and architectural requirements in coordination with application and technology delivery groups. As internal subject matter experts, Enterprise Architects are responsible for tracking technical and business trends, assessing their impact, and leveraging this information to build solutions, mitigate risks, and plan the retirement and transition of technologies at the end of their lifecycle.

The Enterprise Architect demonstrates technical leadership in project meetings, at governance body committees, and in vendor selection initiatives (RFI/RFPs). This position reports to the Director, Enterprise Architecture at the Brampton Campus.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain close working relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Publish regular updates to domain-specific Target Architectures.
• Assist Technology leadership in analyzing private, public, hybrid, Pass, IaaS, SaaS options and defining a multiyear platform roadmaps.
• Collaborate with application development teams to gather functional and non-functional requirements for a specific project and articulate how the solution addresses those requirements.
• Directly support large initiatives, including the creation of project artifacts.
• Produce and present materials to senior staff.
• Publish all documents to the EA repository and maintain/enhance said repository.

Competencies:

        • Ability to balance tactical needs with longer-term goals.

        • Ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders.

        • Ability to author and present information in a clear and concise manner commensurate with the audience’s technical level.

Experience & Education:

• Undergraduate degree in a Computer Science or Engineering discipline preferred.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in an architecture role for a large enterprise IT department.
• Preference given to candidates with a background in telecommunications.
• Experience establishing a strategy for and architecting cloud enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS
• Experience with deployment patterns involving a mix of on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud Implementations
• Knowledge of architectures involving containers, microservices patterns and API gateways
• Cloud networking patterns and services, such as load balancing, overlay networking, VPN and multi datacenter, networking.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Data and Analytics platforms
• Private Cloud architecture using VMware technology stack
• 5+ years prior experience in a senior technical role, demonstrating the technical design and practical
• implementation of complex infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment; Telecom sector experience is an asset.
• Experience and/or training related to Architecture & Service Delivery Frameworks. Preference given to candidates certified in TOGAF and/or the TMF Frameworx.

Technical Skills

• Deep knowledge of infrastructure and platform services on at least one major cloud platform (Azure and/or AWS).
• Private cloud architectures based on VMware technologies and Data Center Networking
• Advanced knowledge of business/organization, industry best practices, infrastructure, architecture and technology in related areas from an architectural solutions perspective.
• Thorough understanding of the UML diagrams typically employed by enterprise and solution architects.
• Can demonstrate a good understanding of architectural design patterns.
• Experience with EA tools. Preference to candidates with hands-on Sparx EA or iServer expertise.

As a condition of hire, all new employees will be required to provide proof of vaccinations against COVID 19. Any request for an exception under Human Rights legislation must be supported by evidence to be considered by Rogers on a case by case basis.

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Schedule: Full time
Shift: No Selection
Length of Contract: Not Applicable (Regular Position)
Work Location: 8200 Dixie Road (101), Brampton, ON
Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Posting Category/Function: Technology & Information Technology
Requisition ID: 248063
 
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1. Our people are at the heart of our success
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