Description:
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
- Applications Architecture Consulting & Leadership
- 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