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Senior Application Architect

Stantec · Houston, TX · 5 mo ago
Engineering$111k–$167k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Senior Application Architect at Stantec is responsible for designing and overseeing the architecture of various software systems. This includes on-premises systems and cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and integration with existing systems, particularly the Oracle EBS ERP platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and document the overall application architecture for projects, spanning on-premises systems and cloud platforms.

  • Ensure architectures are scalable, reliable, and meet business requirements, including strategies for integrating cloud services with existing systems.

  • Provide expertise in cloud services (such as Oracle and/or Azure) and architect cloud-based applications or migrations, ensuring all solutions comply with security and compliance requirements.

  • Serve as the subject matter expert on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) within the architecture, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and recommending system enhancements and customizations.

  • Lead technical leadership to software development teams, guiding them through the software development lifecycle, and ensuring solutions align with the defined architecture and coding standards.

  • Incorporate security requirements and performance considerations into all application architecture designs, ensuring adherence to security best practices and compliance standards.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, including business SMEs, business analysts, project managers, and IT leadership, to understand requirements and translate them into technical architecture designs.

  • Take part in planning and executing IT projects as the architecture owner, estimating effort and resources, monitoring progress, and intervening if refactoring is needed.

  • Drive continuous improvement by staying updated with emerging technologies, tools, and best practices in the industry, evaluating them for potential benefit to the organization, and establishing best practice guidelines and technical standards internally.

Requirements

  • Education: Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

  • Experience: Extensive experience in software development and architecture, typically 8+ years in software engineering/architecture covering the full software development lifecycle, with at least a couple of years in a senior application design/architecture capacity.

  • Oracle EBS Expertise: Proven experience working with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) in an architectural or senior development role, including full lifecycle implementations or major upgrades of Oracle EBS and a deep understanding of EBS modules.

  • Cloud Architecture & Services: Strong expertise in cloud computing platforms and services, hands-on experience in designing and deploying applications on Oracle Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure, and familiarity with cloud services such as compute, storage, databases, networking, and cloud-native design patterns.

  • DevOps & CI/CD & Agile Practices: Embraces a DevSecOps culture for quicker and more reliable deployments, including continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD), and automated testing, and follows Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum or Kanban).

  • Systems Integration: Strong integration skills, ability to design and implement APIs and middleware for connecting heterogeneous systems, experience with web services (RESTful APIs, SOAP), and enterprise application integration patterns.

  • Technical Proficiencies: Proficiency in programming and scripting languages relevant to the enterprise stack, solid skills in SQL and working with relational databases, comfort with Linux environment, familiarity with version control systems and build tools, and experience with RESTful web services and frameworks to build APIs.

  • Architecture & Modelling Tools: Use of modelling tools to create architecture diagrams and documentation, proficiency in creating models/diagrams using UML or similar, and knowledge of established architecture frameworks (such as TOGAF or Zachman).

  • Methodologies: Experience with Agile/Scrum development processes and understanding of the DevSecOps culture of collaboration between development and operations.

  • Testing & Quality: Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and performance testing tools.

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