Business Architect

Job Responsibility:

MGIS is seeking highly skilled Senior Business Architects!

The ideal candidates will play a critical role in providing implementation support for migrating legacy Nortel PBXs to WCS IP Telephony Service and ensuring compliance with the WCS Statement of Work. This role demands strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage complex projects and teams effectively.

The following responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Provide implementation support for migration of legacy Nortel PBXs to WCS IP Telephony Service.
• Ensure compliance of WCS IP Telephony Service solutions to the WCS Statement of Work.
• Prepare MS PowerPoint presentations for SSC and DND Management that describes technical architectures, transition approach, service migration strategies in support of business transformation.
• Develop technical solutions for integration of special circuits and assemblies.
• Facilitate discussions and written communication in French or English, as required by the client stakeholders, between management, suppliers, project stakeholders, and technical staff.
• Develop architecture and design requirements for integration of WCS IP Telephony Service on SSC LAN and WAN networks.
• Manage workload for SSC WCS Project engineering team that includes allocating tasks, providing guidance in technical solutions while ensuring readiness in accordance with the implementation timelines.
• Provide technical advice and guidance to Project Team Workstreams, co-workers and other SSC Service Lines. This includes enabling existing SSC IT infrastructure services that includes WAN, LAN, IP address plan, DHCP and DNS requirements, E911 implementation, Security design and Firewall / SBC traversal, etc.
• Facilitate discussions and represent SSC during technical working group sessions with WCS service provider to ensure understanding of requirements and timely resolution of issues and problems.
• Prepare migration strategies, required documentation and detailed test plans that mitigate risks and ensure compliance with business requirements.
• Communicate implementation and migration approaches to clients and SSC Senior Management and operational teams impacted by changes.
• Interact with other WCS Project work streams, DND and SSC LAN team, WAN operations and key operational Telecom Service Line support teams to ensure coordinated approach from initial engagement of DND stakeholders to implementation of solution at a site.

Requirements: The following mandatory requirements must be met:

1. Graduate (Masters) degree in Engineering from a recognized university.

2. Bilingual (English and French)

3. Must have 15 years of experience with telephony, PSTN, Telephony Service architecture planning, design, and implementation support

4. Must have experience in at least two large national enterprise projects, each exceeding $100 Million in value.

5. Must have 10 years of experience in developing implementation strategies and plans for large enterprise telephony services (at the national level).

6. Must have experience as Lead Technical Architect for a large-scale IP Telephony project that can service 75,000+ telephones at 120+ locations.

7. Must hold a valid Secret Level II Clearance issued by PSPC.

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Application question(s):

• Do you have experience in at least two large national enterprise projects, each exceeding $100 Million in value?
• Do you have 10 years of experience in developing implementation strategies and plans for large enterprise telephony services (at the national level)?
• Do you have experience as a Lead Technical Architect for a large-scale IP Telephony project that can service 75,000+ telephones at 120+ locations?
• Please provide the 8-digit code tied to your clearance (this will be used for verification purposes only)

Education:

• Master's Degree (required)

Experience:

• telephony, PSTN, Telephony Service: 10 years (required)

Language:

• Fluent English and French (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Secret Level II Clearance issued by PSPC (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-06-04Expected start date: 2024-06-07