Position: Senior Technology Architect
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11599
Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technology Architect with extensive experience in enterprise architecture, database administration, middleware technologies, infrastructure planning, and large-scale system integrations. The successful candidate will provide leadership in architecture design, infrastructure modernization, database support, middleware operations, and enterprise platform sustainment while supporting business-critical applications and services.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Solution Design
- Develop,
recommend, implement, and manage technical architecture including
hardware, software, databases, and communications infrastructure.
- Design
and architect system and data integration solutions.
- Translate
business requirements into technical and reporting requirements.
- Develop
conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Lead
enterprise architecture activities and contribute architecture
deliverables and models.
- Support
IAM modernization initiatives utilizing technologies such as Microsoft
Entra ID or Oracle IAM.
- Design
and support Single Sign-On (SSO) architecture solutions.
Infrastructure & Platform Support
- Lead
infrastructure-related activities including deployments, upgrades,
patching, and maintenance.
- Support
analytics platforms and enterprise-wide infrastructure initiatives.
- Maintain
infrastructure capacity planning and performance optimization.
- Support
databases, middleware platforms, and related infrastructure environments.
- Lead
operating system upgrade initiatives across Windows, Linux, and UNIX
environments.
- Lead
database upgrade and migration projects.
Database Administration
- Provide
administration and support for Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 database
environments.
- Perform
database backup, recovery, export/import, maintenance, monitoring,
performance tuning, and optimization.
- Manage
database security, access controls, permissions, and recovery plans.
- Maintain
data standards and technical documentation.
- Perform
database capacity planning and storage management.
- Install,
configure, test, and support new database platform versions.
Middleware Administration
- Install,
configure, upgrade, clone, and administer middleware platforms.
- Support
enterprise middleware operations and infrastructure services.
- Perform
troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
- Support
application deployment and environment promotion activities across
development, testing, UAT, pre-production, and production environments.
Documentation & Governance
- Develop
technical documentation including operational procedures, architecture
documentation, build books, and programming specifications.
- Participate
in release management, planning activities, and change assessments.
- Capture
meeting outcomes and follow up on action items.
- Ensure
alignment with ITIL-based operational processes and best practices.
Required Qualifications
General Skills
- Leadership
experience developing and implementing enterprise technical architectures.
- Experience
across multiple platforms, operating systems, database technologies, and
communication protocols.
- Strong
knowledge of middleware technologies and gateway solutions.
- Experience
with structured methodologies for design, development, and implementation.
- Extensive
systems analysis and design experience within large enterprise
environments.
- Strong
understanding of ITIL processes and service management practices.
- Experience
utilizing CASE tools, project management tools, and related technologies.
- Awareness
of emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices.
Database & Infrastructure Expertise
- 10+
years of experience with Oracle Database technologies, including Oracle
RAC.
- Extensive
experience supporting Oracle 19c and enterprise database environments.
- 10+
years of UNIX (Solaris/Linux) and Windows Server administration
experience.
- Extensive
experience supporting SQL Server environments and SSRS implementations.
- Experience
with database clustering, Data Guard, Flashback technologies, backup and
recovery strategies.
- Experience
with database performance monitoring and tuning.
- Experience
with capacity planning and infrastructure scaling initiatives.
Middleware & Integration Experience
- Extensive
experience with IBM TRIRIGA, WebSphere, and IBM HTTP Server environments.
- Experience
with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) installation, administration, migration,
and upgrades.
- Experience
designing and implementing system and data integration solutions.
- Experience
supporting large-scale middleware operations and technology
infrastructure.
- Experience
with Hadoop installation, configuration, and infrastructure design.
Communication & Leadership Skills
- Excellent
analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong
verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong
stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
- Ability
to work effectively with ambiguous and conflicting requirements.
- Experience
communicating with large groups of stakeholders.
- Proven
ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience
applying enterprise architecture frameworks and public sector architecture
practices.
- Knowledge
of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms.
- Knowledge
of Information Management principles, policies, and practices.
- Experience
working within large public sector organizations.
Work Arrangement
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)
We serve customers in two ways, we provide:
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
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