Senior (Solutions) Architect

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Senior (Solutions) Architect Apply locations Toronto, ON time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: April 15, 2025 (13 days left to apply) job requisition id R108556

What Ontario Health offers:

Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
• A health care spending or wellness spending account
• A premium defined benefit pension plan
• Three personal days and two float days annually
• Three weeks' vacation to start (for individual contributors), increasing to four weeks after two years
• Career development opportunities
• A collaborative values-based team culture
• A wellness program
• A hybrid working model
• Participation in Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

The Senior (Solutions) Architect plays a key role in designing and delivering integrated solutions that align technology with business needs across Ontario's healthcare system. You will support a variety of initiatives across domains, translating strategic goals into actionable roadmaps and working closely with stakeholders to ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with enterprise direction.

The Senior (Solutions) Architect will be responsible for supporting the portfolio's vision to re-imagine our digital and virtual assets to create a better, more connected healthcare system, along with evolving and encouraging a citizen-centered, digital-first mindset.

The Senior Architect (Solutions) will support the Digital Excellence in Health (DxH) digital and transformation strategy, roadmap and change management, working closely with stakeholders and teams, to successfully deliver IT solutions to achieve the desired business outcomes across a complex stakeholder landscape.

Here is what you will be doing:

• Lead the development and execution of solution architecture strategies that support digital transformation, technology enablement, and alignment to business objectives.
• Collaborate across business and technical teams to ensure architecture aligns with strategic goals, operational models, and enterprise roadmaps.
• Guide stakeholders in translating complex business needs into integrated solution designs that support organizational priorities and system interoperability.
• Responsible for creating architectures, roadmaps, and plans for the interconnection of multiple OH products and services within the provincial vision.
• Acts as subject matter expert to internal stakeholders in specialized areas such as laboratories, digital identity, data, etc.
• Acts as single point of contact for OH partners to support understanding of the use and architecture of specific OH products and services.
• Maintains and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice with respect to specific subject areas within the Health System.
• Guides and influences product owners and vendor partners to align solutions to Ontario Health's digital vision.
• Collaborates with, guides, and mentors junior and peer architects by elevating their breadth and scope of knowledge of solution architecture, the healthcare domain, architecture patterns, and best practices, and supporting the practice of architecture and the development of solution architecture models and documentation.
• Understands and translates tactical and operational business requirements into effective architectures and designs.
• Resolves business rules and information and application conflicts involving shared services, applications, and resources.
• Contributes to the development of architecture processes, procedures, templates, etc., providing assistance to others.
• Works with product management to support roadmaps and architectural alignment to ensure the delivery of project and product objectives.
• Maintains architecture service quality accountability at the product and project level for assigned work.
• Leads project work in a domain, communicating and guiding consumers and projects from business and technical aspects.
• Develops visionary solutions, as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them, for product/portfolio initiatives that meet customer needs and timelines, while adhering to overall enterprise architecture vision and organizational business plans.
• Reduces current and future costs across product/portfolio initiatives by identifying misalignments, duplication of efforts, and other opportunities for improvement in the architecture: escalates, proposes, and drives to delivery practical, efficient, and reusable solutions.
• Consults on, advises, and influences product/portfolio project planning by identifying architecturally significant cross-project and system dependencies to ensure target delivery dates are realistic and meet product/portfolio expectations.
• Reduces duplication of effort, cost overruns, and impacts on timelines by identifying, championing, and influencing strategic and tactical business and IT opportunities within a product/portfolio; leads product/portfolio IT transformation initiatives to their realization; maximizes outcomes by balancing cost, quality, and time to production.
• Assesses and identifies cross-product gaps and opportunities for reuse and/or alignment, advocating for solutions to address gaps with product owners to maximize reuse and alignment.
• Builds sustainable, trusted relationships with stakeholders, partners, colleagues, and superiors.
• Works with internal and external (regional, provincial) stakeholders to understand business needs across OH and their impact on specific products/portfolios.
• Assists clients in defining non-functional requirements such as application and solution management, sharing, and reuse.
• Identifies and escalates issues and works with clients to ensure adherence to application management and quality standards.
• Provides thought leadership across program areas.
• Guides and influences project teams to align and build with an eye to OH's architectural vision and principles.
• Contributes to roadmaps and product vision. Provides alternative solutions and options for business and technical challenges. Identifies dependencies in project/product deliverables and provides guidance for planning and delivery.
• Occasionally engages outside of OH with integration partners (e.g., hospitals).
• Leads change within the domain/product.
• Makes decisions where results have a major impact across the organization requiring sophisticated solutions and long-term correction.

Here is what you will need to be successful:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent working experience in Information Technology is required.
• 5-7 years in an IT environment as an Architect on product/service/technology/health care domain(s).
• Experience as a subject matter expert involved in day-to-day technical and business work, representing asset(s) in discussions for broader solutions, and guiding integration with/use of system/domain is an asset.

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated senior-level experience architecting and delivering end-to-end solutions, developing architecture roadmaps, and leading cross-functional initiatives-ideally within healthcare or complex public-sector environments.
• Knowledge of Architectural disciplines such as Business, Application, Information, Infrastructure, Privacy and/or Security.
• Proven ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholders, with a track record of building consensus and aligning solution design with strategic priorities.
• Familiarity with modern cloud architecture and technologies-such as AWS, Azure, containerization, and microservices-is considered an asset in supporting scalable, cloud-native solutions.
• Understanding of strategic alignment principles, business capability modeling, and operating model development to ensure architecture meets long-term organizational goals.
• Knowledge of service management, control, and architecture frameworks such as ITIL, PMBOK, COBIT, Zachman, TOGAF, Rational, and/or Agile.
• Understanding of Ontario Health business, goals, and mandate and how it applies to the provincial health care system.
• Knowledge of Ontario Health, and the broader Ontario health care sector IT systems to ensure product dependencies are identified and managed.
• Ability to interpret and apply health information management principles to digital health care systems, and to leverage health care interoperability standards such as HL7 V2, or FHIR in development of architecture solutions.
• Knowledge of Legislative boundaries and privacy regulations unique to Ontario and Canada.
• Knowledge of complex geographical, multi-lingual and multi-equity considerations specific to Ontario.
• Knowledge of Patient safety considerations.
• Knowledge of Public Sector procurement legislation, policies, and practices.
• Problem solving and analytical skills to create strategies to mitigate various types of business, privacy, security, and financial risks; identify gaps and opportunities within domains, sectors and/or solutions, and drive improvement and efficiency.
• Strong communication skills to facilitate, negotiate, and communicate . click apply for full job details