Senior Applications Architect

Position: Senior Applications Architect

Duration: 5 Months assignment (contract)
Client Location: Toronto (Onsite/Hybrid: 7.25 hours/day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday)
Engagement Model: Professional Services Engagement – B2B (Incorporated Entities Only)

Note on Assignment Type

This position is provisionally Onsite/Hybrid, requiring 7.25 hours per calendar day between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (excluding breaks). Conditions may change based on organizational requirements and at the discretion of the Hiring Manager.

About the Engagement

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Senior Applications Architect to provide leadership in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of enterprise application architectures within large and complex technology environments.

The successful consultant will be responsible for defining application architecture strategies, establishing integration patterns, producing architecture deliverables, and supporting enterprise-wide technology initiatives. This role requires extensive experience in systems analysis, application architecture, cloud integration, enterprise solutions, middleware technologies, and architecture.

Working closely with business stakeholders, solution teams, infrastructure specialists, security experts, and project teams, the consultant will define current-state and future-state architectures while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, best practices, and strategic objectives.

Scope

• Develop target-state application architectures, architecture roadmaps, and transition strategies.

• Create current-state ("As-Is") and future-state ("To-Be") architecture models and blueprints.

• Analyze business and technical requirements to develop scalable enterprise solutions.

• Design application integration patterns utilizing APIs, SOA, web services, middleware, and messaging technologies.

• Support cloud and hybrid architecture initiatives, including integration between on-premises and cloud environments.

Assignment Deliverables

• Current-state and target-state architecture documentation.

• Technical architecture blueprints and solution designs.

• Application integration architecture and interface specifications.

• Cloud and hybrid architecture recommendations.

• Architecture and compliance assessments.

Expertise Required

Must Have:

• Experience in the development and implementation of application architectures for a minimum 6 years.

• Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments

• Knowledge of TOGAF ADM (preferred) or Zachman architecture frameworks including business / information / application / technology / security architecture domains

• Practical experience in at least one of current architecture tools e.g. EA Sparx, Archi or similar with the modeling experience with Archimate and/or UML in a team environment

• Experience and knowledge of different integration types including SOA, APIs, web services, real time and batch based, hub and spoke; experience in enterprise service bus implementations.

Nice to Have:

• Experience leading multi-tier application infrastructure initiatives.

• Experience with workflow automation and dynamic forms solutions.

• Experience developing enterprise architecture models and documentation.

Security Clearance

Required.

Important

This is a business-to-business engagement. Candidates must represent an incorporated entity, hold a valid business number, maintain appropriate insurance, and invoice for services rendered.

How to Apply

Submit your resume in confidence via the Akkodis Canada website.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.

Accessibility:

At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matter. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we’re making the future work for everyone.