Senior Application Architect to lead cloud and SaaS software adoption for a public sector client (RQ00099)

Senior Application Architect to lead cloud and SaaS software adoption for a public sector client (RQ00099)

**Remote MST, 37.5 hours**

Must haves:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in this role
• 5+ years of experience with cloud or SaaS software adoption or implementations

Nice to haves:

• Experience with legal registries (corporate, land title, property, etc...)
• Experience with financial software, such as managing grant and loans
• Experience integrating with ERP or accounting software
• Experience with identity management frameworks and related technologies (e.g. authentication services, SAML), especially in a public sector context

Responsibilities could include but are not limited to:

• Develop application architectures, frameworks and strategies, either for an organization or for a major application area, to meet the business and application requirements.
• Define architecture to be used in web-based projects.
• Identify the policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution.
• Analyze and evaluation alternative technology solutions to meet business problems
• Ensure the integration of all aspects of technology solutions.
• Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions fit with government and industry directions for technology.
• Analyze functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows.
• Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document database content, structure, and application sub-systems, and develop data dictionary.
• Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems, to external systems and between new and existing systems.
• Define input/output, including detailed plan for technical design phase, and obtain approval of the system proposal.
• Identify and document system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, etc.
• Perform architectural modeling to ensure consistency of the design with exiting work.
• Assess the impact of the new requirements on existing web applications.
• Ensure functionalities have been implemented according to specifications.
• Define assumptions and constraints of architecture with regard to physical structure and data collection.
• Develop post-implementation plan for monitoring/tracking architecture stability.