Applications Architect - Ontario, Canada - Humber College

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Job Description - Applications Architect - NFT Admin - EA, ITS

Applications Architect - NFT Admin - EA, ITS

Find Your Spot at Humber

At Humber, our career pathsopen upa world of infinite possibilities for you to explore. People are at the heart of the Humber experience. Here, every day we work shoulder to shoulder to deliver excellence, and in doing so, we redefine what it means to be a leader in polytechnic education. Humber employees area diverse group ofcommitted, caring and fun-lovingpeople.

We take finding and growing the right talent very seriously.We strive to find and nurture extraordinary employees who bring their best each day.

If you are interested in working in higher education and are looking to contribute to the largest polytechnic College in Ontario,as we shape the future of our students and communities, here is your opportunity to join our team.

Position Title: Applications Architect, Enterprise Applications

Status: Non Full-Time Admin ( 18 months)

Hours : 37.5 hours per week

Faculty/Department: Information Technology Services, Enterprise Applications

Campus: North Campus, remote/ hybrid working model

What you will do:

Reporting to the Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture within ITS Enterprise Applications, the Applications Architect collaborates with business partners and ITS to understand and achieve desired business outcomes across all campuses. The role involves integrating the "big picture" of enterprise application platforms, services, and technology, and creating effective plans for current and future application architecture development and integrations. This includes leveraging best practices for technology design, configuration, and deployment across various enterprise applications such as the Student Information System (SIS), Financial Information System (FIS), Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Digital Identity, and related integrations.

The Applications Architect provides strategic advice to senior management on organizing enterprise digital assets to manage risk, achieve business outcomes, and optimize the client experience. This involves a diverse set of enterprise platforms, services, and integrations to meet the college's varied business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior administration and campus clients, ensuring project alignment with college and digital innovation objectives
• Serve as the primary contact for application architecture consultations, defining, evaluating, and recommending architecture requirements and strategies, including application integration and interface design
• Provide architecture expertise to support college-wide operations, understanding Humber's core business and service architectures
• Leads technology change to deliver business outcomes while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any other needed technical area
• Oversees, or consults on, technology implementation and modification activities (e.g., projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions
• Recommend new technologies to support ITS and Humber's Strategic Plan and Digital Campus Plan
• Present and advocate for new approaches and ideas to senior management, overseeing technical solution development for portfolio requirements
• Advisory Services
  • Provide confidential strategic advice to senior management for key business proposals, addressing ambiguity, staffing impacts, labour relations, and competitive advantage
  • Advise on application architecture approaches and issues, developing plans, solutions, and business models, and anticipating future needs.
  • Support collaboration between ITS teams on strategic integration and standards development
  • Participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums
• Research and Analysis
  • Research and assess applications architecture, integration models, usage patterns, systems analysis/design, and risk management
  • Explore and identify trends impacting digital architecture planning
  • Address competing priorities, new technologies, expanding services, and client requests
  • Recommend application architectures to meet current and future client requirements and core business needs
  • Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
  • Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes while ensuring nonfunctional requirements are met
  • Support the Digital Architecture Risk Review Team (DARRT) as a Digital Architect subject matter expert
• Standardization and Consistency
  • Implement application architecture standards, ensuring consistency in integration and deployment
  • Monitor and report on procedures, processes, methods, techniques, and controls, recommending new/revised standards
  • Suggest expanded services, new processes, and standardized operational procedures to meet evolving business needs.
• Implement state-of-the-art approaches to enhance enterprise applications' ability to deliver on business objectives
• Support growth in services/applications supported by ITS Enterprise Applications
• Provide advice on increasingly complex hybrid and cloud enterprise applications
• Develop performance metrics for applications architecture evaluation and continuous improvement
• Explore and advise on action plans, strategies, and technologies for continuous improvement

What you bring to the role

Education

• A 4-year degree in Information Technology or a related field from a recognized institution, or equivalent training and experience in ERP applications architecture planning, development, integration, and deployment in an enterprise-wide environment
  
  

Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in a progressively complex enterprise systems environment.

Skills

• Knowledge of applications architecture, strategic planning, database concepts, virtualization, cloud computing, and integration in an enterprise IT environment.
• Awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture-related technical and business planning.
• Strong client relations skills to meet diverse client business needs.
• Working knowledge of technology delivery methodologies such as Agile and Scrum
• One of more of these certifications is an asset that should be highlighted in your application: AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification, Azure Solutions Architect Professional Certification , Salesforce Application Architect

What's In it for you?

• An opportunity to have an impact with a post-secondary institution, poised to do great things.
• Diverse, hard-working, committed team of people who care about each other.
• Tools and technology that will allow you to succeed at your job.
• Highly supportive work culture

At Humber College we don't just accept difference — we celebrate it Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and a progressive mindset goes a long way at Humber. If your experience is close to what we're looking for, consider applying and tell us why you are a great candidate for this job. Find your Spot at Humber

We thank you for your interest in working with Humber College. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Consideration for Support Staff and Academic positions will be given to internal employees in accordance with the respective Collective Agreements.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Humber College is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of our students and our city. We actively seek Indigenous Peoples and individuals from equity-deserving groups with demonstrated skills and knowledge to deal with all aspects of equity, diversity and inclusion in a post-secondary environment.

Accommodation

Humber College is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). OurHR Generalists will work with applicants requesting accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. This document is available in alternate formats upon request.

Anti-Discrimination Statement

At Humber College, all forms of discrimination and harassment are prohibited. Students and employees have the right to study, live and work in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. If you need assistance on concerns related to discrimination and harassment, please contact the Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion or the Office of Student Conduct at

Position Type FT Administration

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Work Locations

North Campus

205 Humber College Blvd.

Etobicoke M9W 5L7

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Duration of Need 18 Months

Deadline to Apply 27th June, 2024

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Contact Us

• HR Services, Humber College
• 205 Humber College Blvd.
• Toronto, ON M9W 5L7
• HR Support Centre: ext. 5001