Application Architect

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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Application Architect
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid, once or twice week onsite
Job ID number: C1238

Brief Description of Duties:

Responsible for providing leadership and design initiatives for building technology solutions. Develops architecture and integration to support medium to large-scale initiatives. Defines project scope, plans and deliverables including cost and timelines. Qualifications include: Demonstrated experience providing IT architecture and planning; ability to produce IT solutions, both independently and collaboratively; and Experience and/or training related to one or more Architecture & Service Delivery Frameworks (TOGAF, eTOM, ITIL, CoBiT, etc.)

Key Job Accountabilities

• Design, and implement a customer profile and case management solution
• Assist technical primes and architects with a customer profile and case management solution design
• Provide vision on the creation and oversight of a combination of current and new systems and technologies  to provide next-gen solutions for the customer profile and case management systems
• Collaboration with business groups to introduce new solutions as appropriate with customer first strategy
• Identify, negotiate and secure (build, buy, partner)  a customer profile and case management system with strategic partners to build and maintain an industry leading ecosystem

Knowledge Required: 

• Strong technical expertise in a customer profile and case management solutions across multiple domains
• Strong vision in API first strategy
• Sets the direction/technical strategy (holistic or domain specific) or operational strategy
• Connects and translates technology enablement to business value
• A strategic mindset with strong technical, business and financial acumen; focused on the big picture and strategy while effectively managing diverse, dynamic, competing priorities in with ongoing program accountabilities
• Deep understanding of the competition for target markets and is able to determine competitive positioning, differentiation, and future strategy
• Effective collaboration skills and attention to detail; including the ability to influence and provide thought leadership at all levels of management, cross-functionally and externally, and to represent the company in commercial discussions and negotiations

Skills: 

• Able to identify the functionalities and capabilities of a customer profile and case management system based on the CMO created by EA architects
• Aid with the migration plan to case management solution
• Experience working with customer data modelling
• Experience integrating systems with other enterprise applications and systems.
• Experience with database management systems
• Experience with software testing
• Experience with SaaS solution
• Understands and shapes industry evolution or vendors’ roadmaps (holistically or in his/her domain)
• Telco Experience is desirable