Systems Architecture Consulting - 6965-1

emergiTEL is hiring for Systems Architecture Consulting – Systems Architect Director
Location: Gatineau, Quebec (Hybrid/Remote as required)
Client: Public Sector (via Fujitsu)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Security Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain a Reliability Security Clearance

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JOB OPPORTUNITYJob Title: Systems Architecture Consulting – Systems Architect Director

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Contract Dates 2026-11-09 to 2027-04-08

Location Gatineau, Quebec

Client Public Sector

Clearance Eligible for Reliability Security Clearance

Role Purpose

The Senior Enabler Team Lead is a senior technical delivery leadership role responsible for establishing and leading the technical enablement capabilities and architectural runway required across large-scale transformation programs.

The role connects architecture, engineering, product, platform, security, integration, data, infrastructure, and delivery teams, ensuring technical foundations are planned, prioritized, and delivered in alignment with the solution roadmap and business priorities. The Senior Enabler Team Lead provides leadership across complex system design, technical feasibility, enabler delivery, engineering practices, and technical debt management. The role combines strong technical leadership with Agile and modern engineering practices to improve scalability, maintainability, delivery velocity, quality, and long-term solution sustainability.

Scope & Accountability

Leads technical enablement and architectural runway delivery for large and complex transformation programs.

Owns the planning, prioritization, coordination, and delivery of technical enablers required to support product, solution, and program objectives.

Establishes an integrated view of technical priorities, architectural dependencies, engineering requirements, technical risks, constraints, and debt across the program.

Connects enterprise and solution architecture direction to executable engineering plans and measurable delivery outcomes.

Orchestrates technical enablement across architecture, engineering, product, platform, integration, data, security, infrastructure, testing, operations, and delivery teams.

Partners with the Chief Solution Architect and architecture leadership to ensure enabler work supports target-state architecture and evolving business requirements.

Provides technical leadership regarding system design, feasibility, sequencing, dependencies, engineering trade-offs, risks, and remediation priorities.

Drives continuous improvement in engineering practices, CI/CD, automation, technical quality, and solution sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

Enabler Planning
Develop and maintain an integrated technical enablement plan that connects solution architecture, product roadmaps, delivery priorities, architectural runway, technical dependencies, and engineering outcomes.

Architectural Runway
Establish and maintain the architectural runway required to support current and future business capabilities, product development, solution releases, and technology evolution.

Planning and Prioritization
Facilitate planning and prioritization of enabler work. Coordinate technical priorities across architecture, product, engineering, platform, security, infrastructure, and delivery teams to establish achievable commitments.

Enabler Backlog Management
Partner with the Chief Solution Architect, product leadership, engineering, and delivery teams to establish and prioritize the enabler backlog based on architecture direction, business priorities, technical dependencies, capacity, risk, and delivery objectives.

System Design and Architecture
Lead system design activities and oversee the architecture of complex systems, platforms, integrations, and shared technical capabilities.

Business and Technical Alignment
Partner with business, product, solution, and architecture leaders to align business requirements with technical feasibility, architecture direction, engineering capacity, and solution constraints.

Cross-Functional Orchestration
Coordinate technical enablement work across architecture, engineering, product, platform, cloud, infrastructure, integration, data, security, testing, operations, and external providers.

Dependency Management
Identify and proactively manage technical dependencies across teams, platforms, applications, environments, suppliers, technologies, releases, and milestones.

Technical Debt Management
Establish a disciplined approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and reducing technical debt, balancing remediation needs with business priorities and delivery commitments.

CI/CD and Engineering Enablement
Drive improvements in CI/CD, development and test automation, release automation, environment management, engineering toolchains, observability, and related delivery practices.

Technical Risk Management
Identify architectural and engineering risks, constraints, and issues and ensure appropriate ownership, mitigation, escalation, and resolution.

Engineering Practices
Establish and reinforce engineering practices that improve solution quality, security, reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and supportability.

Multi-Partner Coordination
Establish effective technical coordination across clients, strategic partners, technology providers, subcontractors, and other delivery organizations.

Continuous Improvement
Assess technical delivery and engineering effectiveness and introduce improvements that increase delivery predictability, automation, speed, quality, resilience, and sustainability.

Key Interfaces

Executive sponsors and program leadership

Business and technology executives

Portfolio and product leaders

Enterprise and solution architecture

Engineering, platform, security, data, infrastructure, operations, and service leadership

Delivery Leadership & Team

Account and delivery leadership

Program and project executives

Product and solution leaders

Chief Solution Architect

Enterprise, solution, and technical architects

Engineering and development teams

Cloud, platform, integration, data, security, testing, infrastructure, and operations teams

Global Delivery Centers

Partners & Third Parties

System integrators

Software and platform providers

Subcontractors

Specialist engineering and delivery partners

Qualifications & Experience

10+ years of experience in enterprise technology delivery, solution architecture, software engineering, systems engineering, platform engineering, or complex technology transformation.

5+ years in a senior technical leadership, architecture, engineering leadership, or technical enablement role with responsibility for coordinating multiple technical teams and workstreams.

Proven experience leading technical enablement, architecture, or engineering activities for large-scale enterprise technology transformation programs.

Demonstrated experience leading system designs and overseeing the architecture of complex, integrated enterprise systems.

Demonstrated experience aligning business requirements with technical feasibility, architectural direction, delivery constraints, and engineering considerations.

Experience with enterprise platforms and large-scale systems implementation, such as ERP, CRM, Enterprise Management Systems, cloud transformation, application modernization, or comparable enterprise programs.

3+ years of experience with Agile or scaled Agile delivery approaches, with practical experience in areas such as PI planning, architectural runway, enabler backlogs, Agile Release Trains, solution trains, product backlogs, or equivalent delivery constructs.

Strong experience developing and prioritizing technical enabler backlogs aligned with architecture roadmaps, product priorities, dependencies, and delivery objectives.

Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, test automation, release automation, configuration management, engineering toolchains, or comparable modern engineering practices.

Demonstrated experience identifying, prioritizing, and managing technical debt across complex enterprise systems or platforms.

Demonstrated experience managing technical dependencies and coordinating outcomes across multi-vendor, multi-partner, or geographically distributed delivery environments.

Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including security, privacy, performance, availability, scalability, resilience, maintainability, and supportability.

Proven ability to translate complex architectural and technical information into clear recommendations, decisions, trade-offs, and actions.

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor technical professionals, and establish consistent engineering practices across matrixed organizations.

Strong technical leadership, communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

SAFe, TOGAF, cloud architecture, DevOps, DevSecOps, security, or comparable technical certification is preferred.

Mandatory Requirement: Project References

The Offeror must submit two project references that demonstrate that the proposed Enabler Team Lead has experience providing leadership to enabler teams for an Enterprise Management System (EMS) project, including carrying out all the following activities:

Lead system designs and oversee the architecture of complex systems, platforms, integrations, and shared technical capabilities;

Align business requirements and technical feasibility.

The candidate must demonstrate this experience through:

Two distinct resource‑specific project references that collectively illustrate compliance with all requirements.

For each project, the candidate must provide sufficient detail to clearly substantiate its experience, including a description of the project scope and objectives, the candidate's specific role and responsibilities, the key activities performed relevant to the role, the duration and timelines, and the outcomes achieved.

The information provided should be clear, complete, and directly aligned to the criteria to enable an effective assessment of the Offeror's capability to meet the requirements.

The project references must include:

The name of the client organization;

The project name and budget;

The Contract number or reference number under which the project was executed;

The start and enddates for each of the projects;

Client Reference (must have been an employee of the client organization) name and contact information that can validate the resource's professional and personal skills performed during the project;

A description of how the project served a large‑scale Enterprise‑wide environment of 10,000 employees or more or for an organization with 5,000 users or more ;
and

A descriptionof how the experience was obtained by the proposed resource within the last 10 years .

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