Position: Applications Architect
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11160
Duration: 16 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Applications Architect to
define, design, and guide enterprise-level application architectures in a
large, distributed environment. This role involves leading architectural
planning, ensuring system integration, and supporting governance processes
while delivering robust, scalable, and compliant solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define
the structure and relationships among solutions, including reusable
components, software layering, interfaces, and quality metrics
- Design
and oversee application, database, and middleware interactions
- Develop,
implement, and manage enterprise-wide architectural solutions in
distributed environments
- Monitor
systems and understand interactions across architectural layers
- Define
coding standards, limitations, and requirements
- Develop
enterprise architecture deliverables (models, documentation, artefacts)
- Guide
projects through enterprise architecture governance with technical
oversight
- Contribute
to discovery-phase activities such as feasibility studies, options
analysis, and cost estimation
- Support
procurement processes by developing architecture specifications and
evaluating vendor proposals
- Research,
define, and maintain architecture standards, policies, and best practices
- Conduct
architecture reviews and assessments aligned with enterprise priorities
- Provide
expert advice to project teams, stakeholders, and leadership
- Lead
or participate in complex architecture investigations
Qualifications
General Skills
- Strong
leadership experience in solution and application architecture delivery
- Extensive
experience with enterprise systems, operating environments, databases,
programming languages, and communication protocols
- Expertise
in application design, analysis, and structured development methodologies
- Experience
with middleware technologies and integration gateways
- Experience
using CASE tools, modeling tools, and project management software
- Strong
knowledge of data and process modeling, metadata, and data architecture
- Awareness
of emerging information technology trends
- Excellent
analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management
skills
- Proven
ability to meet deadlines in complex environments
Technical Skills and Experience
- Experience
with architecture modeling and CASE tools
- Strong
understanding of Information Management principles and practices
- Knowledge
of accessibility standards and regulations (e.g., AODA)
- Experience
designing architecture for digital and physical credential ecosystems
Architecture Expertise
- Ability
to define and document technical and information architecture requirements
- Experience
preparing architecture plans, estimates, and governance artefacts
- Proven
capability in solution, business, and information architecture
documentation
- Strong
experience designing multi-tier enterprise applications
- Knowledge
of security and privacy requirements in architecture design
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge
of object-oriented analysis and design
- Experience
designing functional and technical requirements
- Experience
with workflow systems and dynamic forms
- Familiarity
with large-scale enterprise application development and maintenance
Assignment Details
- Onsite
role, Monday to Friday
- 7.25
hours per day during standard business hours
Must-Have Skills
- Experience
creating Business, Solution, and Information architecture documentation
- Ability
to produce architecture artefacts including logical and information data
models
- Experience
defining and obtaining approval for architecture requirements
- Ability
to develop and maintain architecture policies and standards
- Experience
ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and industry best practices
About Symbiotic Digital.
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Skills Required
- Strong leadership experience in solution and application architecture delivery
- Extensive experience with enterprise systems, operating environments, databases, programming languages, and communication protocols
- Expertise in application design, analysis, and structured development methodologies
- Experience with middleware technologies and integration gateways
- Experience using CASE tools, modeling tools, and project management software
- Strong knowledge of data and process modeling, metadata, and data architecture
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience creating Business, Solution, and Information architecture documentation
- Ability to develop and maintain architecture policies and standards
- Experience ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and industry best practices
What We Do
Symbiotic Group Inc. is a consulting company that helps SMBs drive measurable results in sales, digital marketing, and operations. They also provide IT consulting services and focus on advancing business and career opportunities for Indigenous peoples.
