Solutions Architect

Job Description

<p><strong>Job Title: Enterprise Architect</strong></p><p><strong>Location: Edmonton, Alberta - (Hybrid - 2 days in a week onsite)</strong></p><p><strong> Employment: Contract opportunity </strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About VLink: </strong>Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Job Description:</strong></p><p>Scope of Work / Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Enterprise Architecture & Capability Mapping</li><li> Develop current-state and future-state enterprise architecture (Conceptual, Logical and Physical) aligned to AI's strategic, business, and divisional plans. o Map business capabilities across funding, applied research, and revenue generating functions to supporting systems. </li><li>Identify system redundancies, integration gaps, and opportunities for simplification and modernization. </li><li>Systems & Platform Analysis to Review the application and system landscape across corporate services, research operations, client-facing processes, and operational technology. </li><li>Recommend rationalization, consolidation, or modernization approaches. </li><li>Strategic Technology Alignment to Ensure recommendations align with the Digital & IT Strategy, Data Program, AI Strategy, cloud strategy, and cybersecurity principles. o Provide direction on how cloud, SaaS, network, and data-center components should integrate and support enterprise capabilities. </li><li>Solution & Roadmap Guidance to Support development of multi-year architecture roadmaps. </li><li>Provide guidance-not hands-on design-on solution patterns, integrations, and platform alignment (CRM, HRIS, Finance, Contract Management, Data Management and Governance). </li><li>Stakeholder Engagement o Engage executives, business units, IT teams, and subsidiaries to validate processes, requirements, and architectural decisions. o Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment discussions. </li><li>Documentation & Recommendations to Produce architecture documentation, capability maps, diagrams, and recommended future-state options. </li><li>Provide inputs into investment planning, sequencing, and prioritization.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Warm Regards,</strong></p><p><br></p><p></p><p><strong>D:</strong> </p>