Applications Architect - Senior

The Land & Resources Cluster and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness require a Senior Solution Architect to update the Enterprise Architecture for the AgriSuite portfolio. The resource may also be assigned to Bill 5 related initiatives as required. Responsibilities include leading architecture activities, developing solution artifacts, aligning with OPS standards, supporting governance processes, and ensuring effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, and support to project teams and subject matter experts.
• Create, update, and validate all solution architecture models, artifacts, and diagrams according to industry best practices and OPS EA guidelines.
• Collaborate with cluster staff, SMEs, and OPS partners to ensure architecture alignment.
• Develop architecture artifacts using cluster tools and repositories such as PowerDesigner and DevOps.
• Identify risks and issues and support mitigation planning.
• Arrange and facilitate validation sessions and EA meetings.
• Develop reference architecture models and patterns for future use.
• Support governance approvals including project gating, cluster governance, and corporate AGP processes.
• Provide status updates to project teams and EA units.
• Ensure alignment with OPS reference architectures and business materials.
• Support Agile Enterprise Architecture delivery throughout the project.
• Provide knowledge transfer and ensure all artifacts and documents are delivered to the ministry repositories.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years developing solution architectures in government or complex multi-project environments.
• Experience identifying and analyzing business requirements.
• Strong understanding of government, compliance, and regulatory environments.
• Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks such as Zachman or TOGAF.
• Experience modeling business, information, application, technology, and security architectures.
• Experience delivering solution and application architectures for enterprise-scale COTS systems (Oracle Siebel preferred).
• Hands-on experience producing EA artifacts/models using tools such as PowerDesigner or Visio.
• Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and consensus-building skills.
• Experience supporting governance processes including gating, TRA, PIA, and corporate architecture reviews.
• Knowledge of AODA standards.

Evaluation Criteria

• Application/Solution Architecture – 60%: experience across EA domains, developing artifacts, designing secure and scalable solutions, COTS/SaaS architecture, and modeling tools.
• EA Leadership & Methodologies – 20%: leading architecture projects, supporting governance approvals, preparing presentation materials, and aligning across domains.
• Soft Skills – 20%: communication, facilitation, decision-making, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and consensus building.

Engagement Details

• Start Date: January 5, 2026
• End Date: March 31, 2026
• Closing Date: December 1, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. EST
• Work Arrangement: Remote (onsite as needed)
• Security Clearance: None required
• Openings: 1 | Max Submissions: 1
• Extension Possible: 1 time