We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Applications Architect for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will be responsible for defining the overarching structure, relationships, and technical requirements of complex software solutions in a large, distributed enterprise environment.
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As a senior technical leader, you will bridge the gap between business objectives and technology execution by designing end-to-end architectures that span application packages, databases, and middleware systems. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to establish architectural standards, provide governance oversight, and contribute technical expertise to highly visible discovery phases for modern identity and digital credential initiatives.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 15 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Strategic Technical Impact: Shape enterprise-level solution design for high-profile physical and digital credential ecosystems.
Long-Term Engagement: Secure a foundational 15-month contract with a high potential for continuous extension.
Architecture Portfolio Growth: Build a comprehensive portfolio spanning business, solution, and information architecture design in a massive, multi-tier environment.
Collaborative Leadership: Act as a core consultant advising cross-functional engineering teams, vendors, and executive technical leadership.
Responsibilities
Architectural Blueprinting & Design: Define the structures, layers, interfaces, and interactions among distributed software solutions, databases, middleware systems, and application packages.
Artifact Documentation: Design and develop comprehensive enterprise architecture deliverables, including detailed business, solution, and information architecture documentation.
Data Modeling: Create vital technical architecture artifacts, including logical data models, information data models, and metadata structures.
Governance & Technical Oversight: Guide project streams smoothly through formal Enterprise Architecture Governance frameworks, providing ongoing technical oversight and direction.
Requirements Definition: Collaborate with clients to define, identify, and describe technical and information architectural requirements, securing necessary management approvals.
Discovery & Feasibility Engineering: Contribute deep technical expertise to initial project discovery phases, feasibility studies, options analyses, and architectural costing for digital credential systems.
Procurement & Vendor Support: Develop detailed solution and technology specifications for procurement initiatives, participating in bid evaluations and vendor service level agreement (SLA) negotiations.
Policy & Standards Management: Research, develop, implement, and maintain technology and information architectural policies, ensuring alignment with corporate standards and industry best practices.
System Monitoring & Limitations: Evaluate high-level component interactions across distributed systems, setting explicit limitations and non-functional requirements for developer source code.
Qualifications
Core Architecture & Domain Expertise
Multi-Domain Mastery: Proven experience creating comprehensive Business, Solution, and Information architecture deliverables and documentation.
Data Modeling Capabilities: Strong hands-on experience generating architecture artifacts, such as logical data models, information data models, and data dictionaries.
Enterprise Environment Leadership: Broad experience executing application analysis, multi-tier infrastructure design, and configuration tracking for large-scale enterprise implementations.
Identity & Credential Systems: Solid technical understanding of architectural options, workflows, and solution patterns for physical and digital credential ecosystems.
Security & Privacy Focus: Extensive knowledge of security frameworks, access controls, and privacy requirements as they relate to data elements and technology architecture.
Technical & Tooling Acumen
Modeling Tools: Proficiency using Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools or modern solution architecture modeling tools.
Methodologies & Integration: Strong background in structured systems development lifecycles, data/process modeling techniques, middleware frameworks, and gateway integrations.
Object-Oriented Design: Strong knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis (OOA) and design techniques.
Regulatory & Framework Standards: Sound understanding of Information Management principles alongside digital accessibility compliance regulations and standards.
Professional & Advisory Skills
Consultative Approach: Exceptional consulting and listening skills to effectively engage stakeholders, build relationships, and manage technical requirements.
Negotiation & Vendor Relations: Demonstrated ability to support complex technical investigations, evaluate vendor bids, and drive contract negotiations to successful outcomes.
Problem Solving & Communication: Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, and decision-making skills paired with exceptional verbal and written communication presentation abilities.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Applications Architect" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Applications Architect for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will be responsible for defining the overarching structure, relationships, and technical requirements of complex software solutions in a large, distributed enterprise environment.
As a senior technical leader, you will bridge the gap between business objectives and technology execution by designing end-to-end architectures that span application packages, databases, and middleware systems. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to establish architectural standards, provide governance oversight, and contribute technical expertise to highly visible discovery phases for modern identity and digital credential initiatives.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 15 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Strategic Technical Impact: Shape enterprise-level solution design for high-profile physical and digital credential ecosystems.
Long-Term Engagement: Secure a foundational 15-month contract with a high potential for continuous extension.
...
Architecture Portfolio Growth: Build a comprehensive portfolio spanning business, solution, and information architecture design in a massive, multi-tier environment.
Collaborative Leadership: Act as a core consultant advising cross-functional engineering teams, vendors, and executive technical leadership.
Responsibilities
Architectural Blueprinting & Design: Define the structures, layers, interfaces, and interactions among distributed software solutions, databases, middleware systems, and application packages.
Artifact Documentation: Design and develop comprehensive enterprise architecture deliverables, including detailed business, solution, and information architecture documentation.
Data Modeling: Create vital technical architecture artifacts, including logical data models, information data models, and metadata structures.
Governance & Technical Oversight: Guide project streams smoothly through formal Enterprise Architecture Governance frameworks, providing ongoing technical oversight and direction.
Requirements Definition: Collaborate with clients to define, identify, and describe technical and information architectural requirements, securing necessary management approvals.
Discovery & Feasibility Engineering: Contribute deep technical expertise to initial project discovery phases, feasibility studies, options analyses, and architectural costing for digital credential systems.
Procurement & Vendor Support: Develop detailed solution and technology specifications for procurement initiatives, participating in bid evaluations and vendor service level agreement (SLA) negotiations.
Policy & Standards Management: Research, develop, implement, and maintain technology and information architectural policies, ensuring alignment with corporate standards and industry best practices.
System Monitoring & Limitations: Evaluate high-level component interactions across distributed systems, setting explicit limitations and non-functional requirements for developer source code.
Qualifications
Core Architecture & Domain Expertise
Multi-Domain Mastery: Proven experience creating comprehensive Business, Solution, and Information architecture deliverables and documentation.
Data Modeling Capabilities: Strong hands-on experience generating architecture artifacts, such as logical data models, information data models, and data dictionaries.
Enterprise Environment Leadership: Broad experience executing application analysis, multi-tier infrastructure design, and configuration tracking for large-scale enterprise implementations.
Identity & Credential Systems: Solid technical understanding of architectural options, workflows, and solution patterns for physical and digital credential ecosystems.
Security & Privacy Focus: Extensive knowledge of security frameworks, access controls, and privacy requirements as they relate to data elements and technology architecture.
Technical & Tooling Acumen
Modeling Tools: Proficiency using Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools or modern solution architecture modeling tools.
Methodologies & Integration: Strong background in structured systems development lifecycles, data/process modeling techniques, middleware frameworks, and gateway integrations.
Object-Oriented Design: Strong knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis (OOA) and design techniques.
Regulatory & Framework Standards: Sound understanding of Information Management principles alongside digital accessibility compliance regulations and standards.
Professional & Advisory Skills
Consultative Approach: Exceptional consulting and listening skills to effectively engage stakeholders, build relationships, and manage technical requirements.
Negotiation & Vendor Relations: Demonstrated ability to support complex technical investigations, evaluate vendor bids, and drive contract negotiations to successful outcomes.
Problem Solving & Communication: Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, and decision-making skills paired with exceptional verbal and written communication presentation abilities.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Applications Architect" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
show more
