Senior I&IT Architect

Are you an I&IT enterprise architecture expert, with extensive Oracle Hyperion Planning experience, looking for a rewarding career designing, implementing and supporting over 12 new applications each year that directly impact Ontarians by providing funding to schools and child care agencies?

The Education Financial Information System is a highly complex collection of almost 100 distinct Hyperion applications all of which have been classified as business and time-critical. This role will require not only strong technical and architectural enterprise-scale leadership and experience but also hands-on expertise with UNIX shell scripts, cube architectures, relational databases and EPM application migration technologies such as LCM. You will also be responsible for managing and modifying a complex security and account management architecture that integrates the Hyperion Planning portions of the application with custom-developed extensions developed using Oracle Application Express based upon Oracle Access Manager. And all of these tasks will need to be executed within the timelines specified in a very demanding and strictly enforced application-specific Service Level Agreement.

If you have the experience and knowledge outlined above and are seeking a new challenge, this position will be an ideal fit.

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What can I expect to do in this role?As a Senior I&IT Architect, you will:

• provide expertise and leadership in information technology (IT) architecture in a number of the following domains: Business, Application, Technical, Information, and Security Architecture and includes enterprise architecture frameworks, strategies and methodologies
• contribute to and manage the planning, design, delivery and implementation of architecture solutions related to large scale, complex, multi-year I&IT projects required to meet the critical business requirements of our ministry client(s)
• contribute to the definition, evaluation and provide leadership in the development of architecture policies, standards, guidelines and best practices affecting multi-ministry/cluster initiatives.

How do I qualify?Technical expertise:You have strong knowledge and understanding of:
• EPM and product architectures and frameworks for various process areas with a focus on application creation, migration and data conversion (ETL)
• Hyperioin Planning application architecture and migration life cycle
• Oracle's product offerings, architecture and middleware (Weblogic).
• Application performance fine-tuning and Oracle Access Manager security integration with APEX and EPM.
• Development, design, and architecture in a large-scale enterprise environment
• Cross-platform solutions
• Object oriented design, design patterns, and multi-tiered fault-tolerant architectures.
• SDLC methodologies
• Java, SOA, Oracle APEX, PL/SQL, ODI, Shell Scripting (C, Bourne, Korn etc), Load Balanced Platform Architecture, Web Services, Google Web Toolkit, SQL, XML, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, C#
• Smart View reporting tools
• Linux and Solaris environment

Leadership skills:You can:
• provide guidance and training to project staff engaged in architecture and solution related project activities
• provide guidance to staff, schedule activities and explain/document procedures related to the solution
• establish effective working relationships, obtain buy-in for systems development and promote systems to senior management and stakeholders
• lead project status meetings and other branch activities related to architecture priorities

Research and analytical skills:You can:
• develop architectural solutions to meet complex, multi-year plans, spanning multiple internal/external stakeholders and broadly defined business objectives
• resolve significant integration and design issues to address multiple systems/applications linkages, interdependencies and impacts where requirements are not initially clear
• research and recommend innovative systems architecture alternatives and integration strategies
• plan and coordinate all phases of complex multi ministry/cluster architecture for systems supporting both internal/external clients and stakeholders
• develop appropriate performance measures that are adaptive and responsive to address the continuous introduction of new and emerging technologies, use of unfamiliar or unproven technology, broadly defined or undefined business and systems requirements

Communication skills:You can:
• present IT strategies and solutions to management and stakeholders
• advise regarding approaches to contentious systems architecture issues
• deliver presentations to clients and stakeholders

Consultation, collaboration and facilitation skills:You can:
• consult with multiple stakeholders and clients to advise on solution issues and initiative developments
• facilitate discussions among stakeholders with different interests
• encourage participation in the systems design process
• provide advice and recommendations regarding the most effective architecture and solution design strategies
• facilitate consultations involving multiple partners, stakeholders (internal/external) and clients to discuss technology trends, IT standards and architecture, obtain policy interpretations and discuss business proposals for compliance with corporate policies, directives and standards

Additional Information:

Note:

• E-EU-223832/24

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Remember: The deadline to apply is Thursday, December 19, 2024 11:59 pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.

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