We are seeking a highly accomplished and multi-faceted Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will lead the design, alignment, and execution of comprehensive enterprise-level integration architectures and large-scale digital technology initiatives.
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As a principal strategist, you will bridge the gap between high-level population health goals, complex clinical integration patterns, and modern software development lifecycles. Operating within a hybrid model, you will provide technical leadership, orchestrate cross-functional teams, manage vendor relationships, and build scalable, interoperable technical blueprints that comply with stringent data privacy, security, and institutional governance frameworks.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - Up to 5 days onsite, subject to Hiring Manager's discretion)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Advantages
High-Impact Architecture: Define and shape enterprise-level integration architecture mapped to large-scale population health goals.
Complex Multi-Domain Scope: Lead complex, multi-workstream integration strategies across technical infrastructure, application development, and clinical care environments.
Elite Leadership Footprint: Drive high-visibility digital initiatives by guiding diverse teams of clinicians, public health specialists, IT professionals, and vendors.
Modern Technology Alignment: Steer technical direction across modern frameworks, including DevOps practices, ITIL processes, and advanced user-centric design methodologies.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Integration Blueprinting: Define, implement, and maintain enterprise-level integration architectures and scalable, interoperable patterns to unify distributed systems.
End-to-End Project Governance: Take full accountability for the on-time, on-budget, and on-scope delivery of complex IT initiatives, adhering strictly to established gating frameworks and governance processes.
Strategic Artifact Engineering: Author and update key structural documentation, including project charters, integrated delivery plans, schedules, and logical system models.
Vendor & Lifecycle Management: Lead vendor engagements and cross-functional engineering squads across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for both products and projects.
Change & Release Control: Oversee strict project change control mechanisms, managing IT requests for change, multi-release strategies, and structural environment deployments.
Financial Forecasting & Controls: Provide rigorous financial forecasts, manage project allocations, and track actual expenditures against approved multi-million-dollar budgets.
Proactive RAID Management: Identify, monitor, and mitigate program-level risks, systematic dependencies, and infrastructure bottlenecks, escalating critical issues appropriately.
Regulatory & Policy Compliance: Ensure all digital blueprints and deployment models align with relevant healthcare legislation, data privacy mandates (such as PHIPA), and corporate security standards.
Stakeholder Forum Facilitation: Organize and lead critical steering meetings, working groups, and review boards to maintain alignment among partners, executive sponsors, and operational teams.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Architectural Requirements
Enterprise Architecture Mastery: Extensive experience utilizing structured frameworks (e.g., conceptual models, logic models, core indicators) to guide integration design and translate system needs into scalable patterns.
Product & Analysis Depth: 7+ years of progressive experience in digital product management and IT business analysis, with strong working knowledge of user-centric design and modern innovation methodologies.
Project & Vendor Management: 7+ years of dedicated experience in formal project management and third-party vendor management, with 11+ years of total experience delivering large-scale technology initiatives.
Healthcare Domain Integration: Proven experience leading complex technology infrastructure and data integration projects within healthcare, digital health, or highly integrated settings.
Methodology & Infrastructure Acumen: Deep knowledge of various software delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid), paired with a solid understanding of technical infrastructure design, DevOps expertise, and ITIL processes.
Leadership & Compliance Capabilities
Legislative Awareness: Practical familiarity with privacy regulations applicable to healthcare organizations, such as the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).
Strategic Collaboration: Demonstrated effectiveness in engaging, facilitating consensus, and building relationships among clinicians, public health teams, technical developers, and community partners.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Health-related fields, Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
Professional Attributes: Superior analytical thinking, change management capability, negotiation skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex IT solutions under challenging circumstances.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist 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 and multi-faceted Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will lead the design, alignment, and execution of comprehensive enterprise-level integration architectures and large-scale digital technology initiatives.
As a principal strategist, you will bridge the gap between high-level population health goals, complex clinical integration patterns, and modern software development lifecycles. Operating within a hybrid model, you will provide technical leadership, orchestrate cross-functional teams, manage vendor relationships, and build scalable, interoperable technical blueprints that comply with stringent data privacy, security, and institutional governance frameworks.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - Up to 5 days onsite, subject to Hiring Manager's discretion)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Advantages
High-Impact Architecture: Define and shape enterprise-level integration architecture mapped to large-scale population health goals.
Complex Multi-Domain Scope: Lead complex, multi-workstream integration strategies across technical infrastructure, application development, and clinical care environments.
...
Elite Leadership Footprint: Drive high-visibility digital initiatives by guiding diverse teams of clinicians, public health specialists, IT professionals, and vendors.
Modern Technology Alignment: Steer technical direction across modern frameworks, including DevOps practices, ITIL processes, and advanced user-centric design methodologies.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Integration Blueprinting: Define, implement, and maintain enterprise-level integration architectures and scalable, interoperable patterns to unify distributed systems.
End-to-End Project Governance: Take full accountability for the on-time, on-budget, and on-scope delivery of complex IT initiatives, adhering strictly to established gating frameworks and governance processes.
Strategic Artifact Engineering: Author and update key structural documentation, including project charters, integrated delivery plans, schedules, and logical system models.
Vendor & Lifecycle Management: Lead vendor engagements and cross-functional engineering squads across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for both products and projects.
Change & Release Control: Oversee strict project change control mechanisms, managing IT requests for change, multi-release strategies, and structural environment deployments.
Financial Forecasting & Controls: Provide rigorous financial forecasts, manage project allocations, and track actual expenditures against approved multi-million-dollar budgets.
Proactive RAID Management: Identify, monitor, and mitigate program-level risks, systematic dependencies, and infrastructure bottlenecks, escalating critical issues appropriately.
Regulatory & Policy Compliance: Ensure all digital blueprints and deployment models align with relevant healthcare legislation, data privacy mandates (such as PHIPA), and corporate security standards.
Stakeholder Forum Facilitation: Organize and lead critical steering meetings, working groups, and review boards to maintain alignment among partners, executive sponsors, and operational teams.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Architectural Requirements
Enterprise Architecture Mastery: Extensive experience utilizing structured frameworks (e.g., conceptual models, logic models, core indicators) to guide integration design and translate system needs into scalable patterns.
Product & Analysis Depth: 7+ years of progressive experience in digital product management and IT business analysis, with strong working knowledge of user-centric design and modern innovation methodologies.
Project & Vendor Management: 7+ years of dedicated experience in formal project management and third-party vendor management, with 11+ years of total experience delivering large-scale technology initiatives.
Healthcare Domain Integration: Proven experience leading complex technology infrastructure and data integration projects within healthcare, digital health, or highly integrated settings.
Methodology & Infrastructure Acumen: Deep knowledge of various software delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid), paired with a solid understanding of technical infrastructure design, DevOps expertise, and ITIL processes.
Leadership & Compliance Capabilities
Legislative Awareness: Practical familiarity with privacy regulations applicable to healthcare organizations, such as the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).
Strategic Collaboration: Demonstrated effectiveness in engaging, facilitating consensus, and building relationships among clinicians, public health teams, technical developers, and community partners.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Health-related fields, Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
Professional Attributes: Superior analytical thinking, change management capability, negotiation skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex IT solutions under challenging circumstances.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist 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
