Job Description:
Responsibilities:

• To provide a leadership role for the technology architecture, design and build of a digital data gateway, digital credentials and related products and integration services.
• To design and maintain a complex, API-based solutions and transaction system in on-prem data centre and cloud.
• Work with ministry/ Government staff to lead the development of key (technology) architecture artefacts to support the architectural gating process.
• Development of an implementation roadmap and options for digital data gateway and digital credentials products, that takes into consideration the requisite components, technology required/involved, ministry readiness, market readiness and maturity; develop short term tactical and longer term strategic implantation plans and option.
• Identify and evaluate commercially ready products and open source solutions that are viable for use and implementation; including assessment and recommendations of products.
• Work with product teams to develop the technology requirements and to ensure alignment towards the enterprise solution approach and roadmap.
• Lead and work with technical and product development engineers to develop functional proofs of concept, pilot implementations and/or final product implementations of solutions that align with the enterprise digital standards.
• Expert leading multi-disciplinary distributed teams to solution delivery, utilizing collaboration platforms, project planning, estimation and agile delivery methodology.
• Provide technology advice and recommendations to executives, management and product teams working on digital data gateway solutions; prepare communications/briefing material as required to effectively communicate recommendations and/or findings from assessments.
• Provide expertise and guidance to ministry partners, product, policy and technical implementation teams regarding use, adoption and alignment with industry standards to maximize interoperability and avoid product lock-in; develop recommendations for adoption of standards and related frameworks for digital data gateway.

General Skills:

• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical architectures at the specified experience level.
• Experience with middleware and API-based gateway solutions.
• Experience with microservice architecture, RESTful APIs and legacy SOAP services.
• Experience with code version control systems (e.g., Git), DevOps practices, cloud delivery/deployment models, virtualization, and container solutions (e.g., docker, Kubernetes).
• Development experience with Java/Spring Boot, NodeJS etc.
• Experience with handling database technologies.
• Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments.
• Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments.
• Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL and is able to guide others using this methodology.
• Experience translating business requirements into reporting needs.
• Experience preparing conceptual, logical and/or physical processes and data models.
• Experience developing, recommending, implementing and managing technical architecture.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Technical - 50%
• Demonstrated technology leadership, and vision - develop, socialize and obtain buy in for multi-year technology roadmaps, and must include recent example involving APIs based digital gateway solutions.
• 10+ years in designing and developing enterprise technology solutions in complex environments, with experience in both public/broader public and private sectors.
• Expertise in designing, building and supporting micro services architecture in on-prem and Azure public cloud (RedHat OpenShift).
• Working knowledge of SQL programming in Oracle 19C environment.
• Understand DevOps build and deploy processes with Jenkins and IBM UrbanCode.
• Extensive hands-on experience in developing RESTful API and knowledge of legacy SOAP.
• Expert knowledge in designing and developing solutions using programming languages such as Java Spring Boot, NodeJS etc.
• Leading technical software engineers through the design process, demonstrating examples through functional code development and providing production support for the API based solutions.
• Experience leading architecture teams and delivery of key design artifacts - including solution requirements and solution architecture documents.
• Mange global development teams - team building through project delivery, use of collaboration platforms and agile project delivery.
• Excellent written and illustration/design skills to formulate technical documentation; evaluation and comparison documents and recommendations for management decision.
• Excellent verbal and presentation capability to brief senior management and executives on various components of the technical design, architecture and/or solution components.

Analysis - 20%:

• Identify and evaluate commercially ready products and open-source solutions that are viable for use and implementation; including assessment and recommendations of products and demonstrating benefits and opportunities.
• Understands emerging technologies, trends and directions, including standards and frameworks.
• Analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Able to provide production support for API based solution in containerized platform, provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) report and conduct postmortem for the production incidents.

Leadership Skills - 20%:

• Able to organize, lead and manage day to day task for team members, develop/assign tasks.
• Able to organize and prioritize work items for self and team members in a rapid and agile work environment setting.
• Use agile methodologies for the analysis, design, development and implementation of applications in large complex environments.
• Establish collaborative work environments; provide mentoring to diverse staff and project team members.

Communications and Reporting - 10%:

• Able to develop reports/presentations for various audience types, ranging from technical experts, non-technical policy analysts to executives.
• Develop and articulate options and recommendations for management and executive level decision makers.
• Communications and interpersonal skills.