Client: Government of Alberta – Justice / Court Technology Services (CTS)

Location: Edmonton, AB – John E. Brownlee Building or First & Jasper Place

Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite, 5 days/week

Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM MT, 7.25 hrs/day, 36.25 hrs/week

Positions: 1

Term: 3 years + possible 24-month extension

Respond By: September 25, 2026

Security: Enhanced Security Clearance required, including Criminal Record Check + Credit Check

Equipment: Provided by CTS

Role Overview

Government of Alberta is seeking a Senior Digital Architect to provide architecture leadership across the Court Technology Services (CTS) Applications, Data & AI portfolio. The resource will support enterprise/application architecture, modernization, digital services, AMS, cloud/OpenShift, data/AI, integration, governance, and technical delivery across Alberta Courts.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop current-state/target-state architecture roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, security and technology domains.
- Define architecture principles, standards, patterns, guardrails and reusable components.
- Produce solution designs, architecture diagrams, integration models, technical assessments, decision records and implementation roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership to developers, application analysts, support teams and vendors.
- Review technical designs, code, integrations, deployments and configurations.
- Support DevOps, cloud, automation, CI/CD, workplace management and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
- Lead discovery sessions, workshops and requirements analysis.
- Translate business objectives into technical requirements, user stories, process models and solution options.
- Provide architecture and technical oversight for Application Management Services (AMS).
- Support major incident reviews, problem management, change advisory, release planning and production readiness.




- Participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) and technical governance activities.
- Review vendor proposals, estimates, technical designs and deliverables.
- Support procurement, SOWs, architecture evaluations and knowledge transfer.
- Define architecture approaches for data integration, analytics, reporting and AI-enabled services.
- Support data governance, information architecture and secure/compliant AI adoption.
- Present technical recommendations, risks, options and trade-offs to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Promote standardization, reuse, modernization, simplification and operational sustainability.

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

- College or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- TOGAF certification.
- 8+ years leading cross-functional Agile product teams, providing architectural direction and mentoring developers/technical leads.
- 5+ years architecting, managing and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
- 8+ years identifying and assessing requirements across multiple architecture domains, including:
- Business

- Application

- Technology

- Data/Information

- Security

- Privacy

- 7+ years documenting application architectures in a large enterprise IT environment comparable to GoA.
- 7+ years planning, designing, implementing and supporting enterprise platform solutions.
- 8+ years providing technical leadership, planning, estimating and presenting technical solutions.

Nice-to-Have Skills
- 5+ years collaborating with data architects, engineers and analysts to design/optimize cloud architecture and services.
- 5+ years developing application architecture standards and guidelines.
- 5+ years working with enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) hub architecture/registries.
- 5+ years developing enterprise solutions using amCharts.
- 5+ years designing/maintaining enterprise mobile solutions.
- 5+ years working with OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security vulnerabilities.

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