application /software architect level 3.

A specialized digital capabilities branch within a federal defense organization is seeking a Senior Application Software Architect (Level 3) to drive the architecture, design, and integration of a mission-critical enterprise data platform. Operating within a cloud ecosystem, this position provides high-level expert advisory and technical support to realize a modern operational data domain concept. The successful candidate will spearhead the design and implementation of a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform, leveraging Azure services to align with broader organizational data strategies, cloud policies, and security frameworks.

Advantages
Remote Work Structure: Enjoys the convenience of a fully remote working profile, operating under standard EST/EDT local business hours.
Contract Stability: Initial 1-year contract period paired with a unilateral 1-year option period to extend.
State-of-the-Art Technology: Work directly with the newest components of Microsoft Fabric, advanced cloud storage frameworks, and modern AI/ML tooling.
Enterprise Architectural Authority: Step into a senior advisory position dictating engineering standards and deployment guides for an entire organizational network.

High-Level Modernization Focus: Directly support a nationwide digital campaign plan designed to fast-track innovation, interoperability, and secure enterprise cloud integration.

Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Design: Design and implement a secure, scalable Microsoft Fabric-based data platform architecture, seamlessly blending Azure Data services with enterprise integration standards. Cloud Engineering: Assess, recommend, and configure Azure-native technologies for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, advanced analytics, and long-term storage. Pipeline Integration: Engineer integration workflows, pipelines, data models, and access control matrices to connect existing, diverse organizational data sources to the Fabric ecosystem.
Policy & Governance Translation: Evaluate cloud security policies, IM/IT architecture standards, and data protection controls to translate them into practical platform configuration decisions.
DevOps & Engineering Standards: Establish rigorous engineering guidelines for Azure DevOps pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, custom system monitoring, and alerting practices.
Technical Documentation: Draft platform design artifacts, workflow definitions, API technical interface documents, secure data transfer schemas, and deployment/operational runbooks.
Innovation & Enablement: Evaluate evolving cloud capabilities, AI/ML tools, and analytics features to ensure compliance, while providing technical enablement through hands-on workshops and knowledge transfer sessions.

Qualifications
Core Experience Baseline: Minimum 10 years of dedicated professional experience performing the requirements of an Application/Software Architect (Level 3).

Education: Holds a university degree in Science (Computer Science or Programming) or Engineering (Software or Systems Engineering).

Cloud & Platform Expertise: * Minimum 8 years of experience architecting advanced data analytics solutions on cloud platforms.

At least 5 years of experience leading complex, enterprise-grade data implementation projects across multi-department systems.

Mandatory Cloud Certification: Must hold a valid copy of at least one of the following certifications:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Technical Domain Knowledge (Scored Asset Criteria):

Demonstrated deep experience building and optimizing complex ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and transform data.

Strong hands-on background utilizing big data tools such as Apache Spark, Databricks, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Lake.

Experience leveraging Microsoft DevOps tools to automate workflows for CI/CD on Major Projects (valued over $10M).

Asset Certifications: TOGAF 9, Databricks certifications, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, or equivalent credentials.

Security & Language: Must hold a valid Secret security clearance. Work must be conducted with fluent professional proficiency in English.

Summary
A specialized digital capabilities branch within a federal defense organization is seeking a Senior Application Software Architect (Level 3) to drive the architecture, design, and integration of a mission-critical enterprise data platform. Operating within a cloud ecosystem, this position provides high-level expert advisory and technical support to realize a modern operational data domain concept. The successful candidate will spearhead the design and implementation of a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform, leveraging Azure services to align with broader organizational data strategies, cloud policies, and security frameworks.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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