Senior Functional Architecture Advisor

Role Overview

• Provide architectural leadership by independently managing the design, integration and viability of application solutions from the architecture phase through delivery, including their operational maintenance.
• Coherently integrate all aspects of the solution (business, processes, functional, data, organizational and technical) to ensure a complete response to client needs, requirements and owner directions.
• Ensure compliance with the principles, standards and directives established by the organization’s enterprise systems architecture.
• Ensure conformity with organizational and governmental IT policies and directions.
• Collaborate closely with the team lead to ensure rigorous tracking of work, to report issues, to propose solution options and to contribute to activity planning and prioritization.
• Participate in activities according to the Agile methodology, including iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives and daily stand-ups, acting as a key contributor and subject-matter resource.
• Respect and support the application of the Agency’s methodological framework (Green Guide derived from the Macroscope MD methodology).
• Provide advisory expertise in the preparation of business cases, opportunity studies and any other strategic activity requiring subject-matter expertise.
• Analyze, identify and document the impacts related to the implementation of new processes or solutions, including detailed cost-benefit assessments.
• Model and document the structure of information systems and integrate the recommended functional solutions into the organization’s overall system architecture.
• Support development teams throughout project execution, promoting collaboration and the sharing of best practices.
• Ensure the quality, consistency and compliance of deliverables produced by functional analysts.
• Perform any other activities required for the project, demonstrating initiative, autonomy and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Deliverables related to the appropriate pathway based primarily on the Agency’s methodology (Green Guide from the Macroscope MD methodology).
• Deliverables related to the Agile methodology supporting the process.
• System scope.
• Functional architecture.
• User-level principles and rules.
• Conceptual data model.
• Core services.
• User interface architecture.
• Impacts and assessment.
• Integration and testing strategy.
• Acceptance testing report.
• Delivery implementation plan.
• Forms and various requests for other VPTI sectors (security, magnetic space, development support, integration, data administration, etc.).
• Any other deliverable required for this project.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology requiring at least three (3) years of university study (or the comparative evaluation issued by MIFI for degrees obtained outside Québec); otherwise, possess three (3) additional years of experience beyond the following criteria.
• Have eight (8) years of experience in information technology.
• Have eight (8) years of experience in the field of functional architecture.
• Have accumulated, during the last five (5)* years, five hundred (500) person-days of experience in functional architecture.
• Have accumulated two hundred (200) person-days of experience in functional architecture as part of a two thousand (2,000) person-day information technology project in a technological and organizational environment comparable to that of the Régie.
• Have at least twelve (12) months of experience, within the last three (3) years, using a recognized development methodology such as Macroscope (Green Guide).
• Have at least twelve (12) months of experience, within the last three (3) years, in one or more of the following technologies: Oracle Database; Teradata Database (or equivalent data warehouse system).
• Have at least twelve (12) months of experience, within the last five (5)* years, in one or more of the following technologies: Sparx Enterprise Architect or an equivalent architecture modeling tool.

Tech Stack

• Chef
• Oracle
• TypeScript