Position 1: Application Architect / Position 2: Solution Architect

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Duties

For both positions:
- Provide guidance and oversight to application designers and developers to ensure that solutions adhere to OSFI’s application architecture standards.
- Communicate and promote OSFI’s architecture vision and roadmap to stakeholders.
- Understand and analyze technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Identify and understand interdependencies between applications, services, infrastructure and related initiatives and provide advice and guidance for interdependency management and planning purposes.
- Develop and maintain a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state.

Position 1:
Some of the key activities include:
- Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring application architecture assurance and compliance.
- Monitor the current-state application portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. In consultation with the Enterprise Architect and the Application Services team, determine a schedule and lifecycle management methodology to address maintenance, upgrade, replacement and decommissioning cycles.
- Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Position 2:
Some of the key activities include:
- Work closely with the Client Relationship Management team and the Business Architect to understand the functional and non-functional requirements for major IT investments and ensure that the requirements are documented to a sufficient level of detail to support options analysis.
- Under the leadership of the Enterprise Architect and in collaboration with other architects, analyze solution options, make recommendations and develop preliminary cost estimates in support of business cases for major IT investments, and to support strategies and studies conducted by the Enterprise Architecture team.
- Design and lead the implementation of solution architectures that address all architectural viewpoints (business, application, data/information, infrastructure, operations and security), based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.

Intent of the process

This selection process may be used to establish a pool of partially qualified and/or qualified candidates which could be used to staff similar positions at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION
For both positions:
- Graduation with a degree* from a recognized university in computer science, information technology, information management or another field relevant to the position to be staffed.

*The term "degree" refers to a baccalaureate or a higher-level degree, as established by educational authorities.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
For both positions:
- Recent* and significant** experience in architecting IM/IT solutions based on key Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Dynamics 365, SQL Server and the .Net Framework.
- Recent* experience in architecting cloud-based or hybrid cloud solutions.
- Experience conducting options analyses to support the development of new solutions.
- Experience in developing and promoting recommendations that define a future-state enterprise architecture.

For position 1 only:
- Experience conducting industry research and publishing reports on topics such as emerging technology trends, market scans, etc.
- Significant** experience in providing application architecture guidance and advice to system development and software procurement initiatives within an organization.

*“Recent” is defined as having been acquired in the last 2 years.
**Significant means the depth and breadth of experience that is normally acquired by performing the tasks over a period of 5 years or more.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET EDUCATION
For both positions:
- Master's degree in a field relevant to the position to be staffed.
- TOGAF 9 Certification (Level 1 or 2).
- Microsoft Certifications relevant to the duties of these positions.

Degree equivalency

ASSET EXPERIENCE
For both positions:
- Experience in developing future application architectures based on an organisation's business strategies and objectives.
- Experience in developing a cloud migration strategy.
- Experience in developing application modernization strategies.
- Experience working with an Enterprise Architecture tool.
- Experience developing cloud-based or hybrid solutions.
- Experience using Microsoft cloud technologies (Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365, etc.)
- Experience with Microsoft business intelligence technologies.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
For both positions:
- Knowledge of application architecture theories and principles.
- Knowledge of business intelligence (BI) and modern analytics (e.g. machine learning) architectures and tools.
- General knowledge of commercial enterprise software solutions, such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Case Management, Enterprise Content Management, office productivity tools, integration platforms, data management and collaboration tools.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.

COMPETENCIES
For both positions:
- Critical Thinking
- Impact and Influence
- Innovation
- Professional Judgement
- Collaboration

ABILITIES
For both positions:
- Ability to communicate effectively orally.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
In order to meet the organization’s employment equity objectives in support of a diversified workforce, ‘right fit’ selection for this position may be made from among qualified candidates who self-declare as being Persons with a disability or Aboriginal peoples.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness and ability to travel within Canada.
- Willingness and ability to work overtime, on occasion.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

In order for your application to be considered, you must submit a completed questionnaire. You will be required to demonstrate how you meet the education and experience criteria (essential and asset) for the initial screening, in answering online screening questions. It is NOT sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must clearly demonstrate HOW, WHEN and WHERE the qualification was met through substantiation by examples. Information on your described education and experience provided in the screening questions should be supported by your résumé. Please note that your ability to communicate effectively in writing will be assessed throughout the application. Therefore, we recommend you use complete sentences where appropriate. Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process.

A written examination may be administered.

An interview may be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

Please note that OSFI has offices located in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. If you are screened in, you may be required to travel to one of these locations to complete assessment (exam, interview, etc.).

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only). Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. A candidate may be appointed to a position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be applied at the time of staffing.

Candidates may be contacted and assessed against these criteria at any time during this process.

Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an organizational need and may be applied in this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the specified designated group(s) will be considered.
A top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

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As a Separate Agency, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) appoints employees in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). OSFI is named in Schedule V of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and it offers the same pension and benefits plans as the core Federal Public Service. In addition to this, OSFI employees obtain a minimum of 4 weeks of vacation leave per year, earn a competitive salary, and are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.