System Architect (CDO)

Location:
Toronto, ON, CA Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Calgary, AB, CA

Req ID: 25110

Jobs by Category: Technology Solutions

Job Function: Engineering & Development

Status: Full Time

Schedule: Regular

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Description

Be a part of a transformational journey with innovative talent and leading-edge technologies. You’ll be joining a dynamic and highly skilled architecture team. We deliver working solutions to enable best-in-class business and systems capabilities, guided by our customers’ needs and strategic priorities.

Our daily actions are guided by three tenets that are critical for our success:

ArchDevOps: We are closing the gap between strategy and execution via embedded agile architectural practices into the DevOps lifecycle, easy flow, and real-time in-the-moment review

Product-centric mindset: We focus on what our customers need with clearly defined outcome-based deliverables, and we deliver using a build-measure-learn loop model

Agile mindset: We apply agile architecture principles in everything we do

What you’ll do

Lead delivery of the system outcomes

System architecture and contribute to solution delivery

Being an embedded member of a DevOps team, your focus and priority is to support the team in reaching its objectives by driving architecture quality through requirements, design, implementation, and operation, improving the flow of work, and enforcing traceability from strategy into execution

Lead the design and implementation of enterprise applications, their components, interfaces, and APIs that best adhere to business specifications, are aligned to portfolio architecture, follow best architecture practices, optimize performance, resiliency by design, and security by design

Hands-on development of key API and system components

Define release plan and sprint planning based on/aligned to the overarching program vision collaborating with Program Solution architects

Enable CI/CD and DevOps by advocating for, steering the development and improvement of the CI/CD Pipeline, and helping to enable Release on Demand

System architecture decisions

Make technology decisions that support better systems architecture

Remove technology-related obstacles at the system level

Grow, develop and nurture our people

Support and coach other development team members with your expertise and knowledge

Mature and scale the Architecture practice

Guide, develop and inspire Architecture and DevOps team members

Participate in Architecture Guilds and other architecture groups to learn and share knowledge

Collaborate and communicate with other stakeholders

Business and technology stakeholders and architects

Qualifications

What you bring

Subject Matter Expertise: The ability to provide knowledge, expertise, guidance, coaching, and advice to the team

Hands-on architecture skills

Architecture modeling language (e.g., ArchiMate)

Architecture patterns

Domain-driven architecture

Event-driven architecture

REST / GraphQL API design

Microservices

Cloud-native architecture (preferable GCP)

Hands-on technical Skills

Working knowledge of Product Catalog, Configure Price Quote (CPQ) and Order Management capabilities

Terraform

Kubernetes, Docker, Spinnaker, Jenkins

NodeJS, Python, Java

Web development, React, HTML / CSS

Kafka, Google PubSub

Postman, Swagger, Open API

Oracle / Postgres DB, SQL

Git (preferably GitHub)

Great-to-haves

Working knowledge of the Netcracker Digital BSS Product Management platform, specifically in the area of Product Catalog and Product Life Cycle Management modules

Understanding of TELUS’ development practices and key improvement opportunities, challenges, and benefits

Understanding of cloud computing

Google Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or Data Engineer Certifications

Experience using a range of Agile project/task management software and tools and experience leveraging them to support digital acceleration

Experience in the telecommunications industry