Senior Solution Architect (Application Portfolio Modernization

Job ID: AR605 Job Title: Upcoming Role, Senior Solution Architect (Application Portfolio Modernization) Closing Date: June 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Location: Peel Region, Ontario Employment Type: Hybrid (minimum 2 days onsite per week) Salary: $96.50 per hour (contractors must be incorporated) Duration: 1 year (with potential 12-month extension) Hours of Work (billable): 7 hours per day (35 hours per week) Consider Your Next Contract with Aliant Resources and Our Municipal Government Client in the Greater Toronto Area About Us: Aliant Resources is a dedicated provider of IT staffing services, committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, anti-racism, and accessibility in all facets of our operations. We invite you to join our team! The Program: The Application Portfolio Modernization (APM) Program is a risk and compliance initiative designed to proactively measure and manage the Region’s technology application portfolio and effectively reduce the risks of security and technical failure. Reporting to the Enterprise Architect, the Senior Solution Architect is responsible for supporting the Application Portfolio Modernization (APM) Program within the IT Solutions division. The Consultant will ensure that the organization can continually optimize the effectiveness of technology applications through the implementation of industry-standard measurement and analysis frameworks. The role involves working across a diverse application portfolio consisting of on-premises, cloud-based, and standalone environments at various lifecycle stages. Key Responsibilities & Deliverables: • Collaboratively defines and regularly updates and maintains meaningful metrics that reflect the condition level of software applications, i.e., their technical and functional state of good repair, and alignment with Peel's digital strategy and target state architecture. • Recommends specific upgrade, maintain, replacement, or retirement actions to ensure that all applications stay above the desired condition level, and control and measurably reduce the application portfolio’s overall technical debt. • Actively collaborates with IT Solutions leadership and relevant Corporate Services and client stakeholders to: • Provide technology roadmaps and strategic planning in support of evolving APS program goals and objectives. • Provide application assessment work and recommendations for effective short- and medium- term Application Portfolio upgrade and replacement projects, including recommended phased approaches to align with more complex long-term technology transitions. • Creates solution design documents and collaboratively provides direction and oversight for effective and secure solutions, ensuring robust interoperability with other relevant regional systems, and conformance to the Corporate Services quality assurance, IT security and enterprise architecture principles, and to the Client's Digital Strategy. • Reviews related requirements and configuration documents received from approved third parties, to ensure compliance with IT security and infrastructure policies, standards, and procedures. • Analyses, designs, and monitors technologies that support existing line of business capabilities. • Develops, updates, and maintains the architecture blueprint that will include as-is architecture, target architecture, and architecture evolution roadmap (1-5 years) aligned with planned projects. • Defines, designs, develops, and maintains comprehensive architectures & standards, and application components (up/downstream interfaces, user interface, report, application logic, data access and secure network integrity) in coordination with stakeholder list. • Updates and maintains an accessible repository for reference models and project-related architectural and application development materials related to APS. • Reviews all design documents for new or upgraded application and integration projects to ensure compliance with architectural policies, standards, and procedures, and AODA compliant. • Provides technical leadership throughout APS project lifecycles. • Works closely with all project team members to understand, document, and confirm requirements. • Designs a system which takes into consideration the ease of maintenance, performance, and compatibility with existing systems. • Provides advice and guidance to platform technical team members by providing mentoring and coaching. • Provides architecture review of existing methods making recommendations of performance and scalability improvements, management updates and standards injection. • Provides expert information architecture technical support for APS products relating to data management and data handling. • Develops logical data models, data accountability, logical database tables and maps logical data models to databases. Qualifications and Experience: • University or college graduate in Computer Science with a post-bachelor’s certificate/diploma in Application Development or related disciplines. • A minimum of 5 years advanced development experience with ITIL, COBIT, application development, spatial database modeling & design, and information architecture. • Proven experience in architecting, designing, and implementing high performance and scalable enterprise level systems and the ability to evaluate how the solution will best meet its functional and quality requirements. • Experience in application portfolio rationalization and optimization initiatives preferred. • Proven experience with object-oriented analysis, design, and programming, unified modeling language, model driven architecture, design patterns, service-oriented architecture, and business plan modeling. • Expert knowledge and proficiency with the following: • IT Infrastructure Library, • Control Objectives for Information Technologies, • Integration techniques and Service Oriented Architectures, and • Technology asset life cycle including performance management, preventive maintenance, and security. • Experience in application development and programming using Java, C#, or .NET. • Experience with industry-standard technologies such as Java, XML, JSON, JSON, JavaScript, HTML5, Web services, SOAP/REST, application servers, and/or Web servers. • Experience with SQL and Enterprise Asset Management databases (DB2, Oracle and SQL Server). • Demonstrated ability to develop complex models that meet architectural specifications, learn new technologies, assist in code reviews, and write documentation in approved formats. • Excellent verbal skills to lead and facilitate architectural design sessions with business area experts, managers, and senior managers. • Highly developed writing skills to author complex specification documents, blueprints, and proposals. • Understanding of emerging technologies, business re-engineering principles and processes, business drivers and business strategy. • Progressive technical knowledge and knowledge of best practices in Information Technology service delivery such as SDLC, PMBOK, COBIT and ITIL. Mandatory Certifications (Pass/Fail – Proof Required) • SDLC Foundation Certificate or higher • PMBOK Foundation Certificate of higher • COBIT Foundation Certificate or higher • ITIL Certification Foundation Certificate or higher Why Join Us: • Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace. • Contribute to the delivery of essential services. • Opportunity for professional growth and development. At Aliant Resources, we value diversity and inclusion and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer and we look forward to welcoming you to our team. Diversity Statement: At Aliant Resources, we are committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promoting a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful, and equitable workplace. Accessibility Statement: Aliant Resources is dedicated to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone with or without a disability. We adhere to workplace accessibility standards to ensure that individuals with disabilities can fully participate in employment opportunities. We understand the importance of identifying and removing barriers, and we strive to provide an inclusive experience for all candidates. Workplace Accommodations: We offer workplace accommodations throughout the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of the AODA and OHRC. If you require workplace accommodations due to a disability, injury, illness, or any other condition that may affect your ability to apply online or perform essential job functions, please reach out to us at accommodations@aliantresources.com. Your request will be answered, and we will collaborate with you to provide appropriate workplace accommodations as required. How to Apply: • You must apply online here at LinkedIn. • Your resume should not exceed three (3) pages. Note for all Applicants: • We thank all applicants for their interest but advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. • Qualified applicants may be considered for other comparable positions. • Please prepare your application in accordance with the qualifications posted in this job advertisement.

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