Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Job Information Job Title:Digital Architect Job Requisition ID:80760 Ministry:Technology and Innovation Location:Edmonton Full or Part-Time:Full Time Hours of Work:36.25hours per week Permanent/Temporary: Permanent Scope:Open Competition Closing Date:March 31st, 2026 Classification: Systems Analyst 3 Salary:$3,756.86 to $4,976.09 bi-weekly ($98,054 - $129,876/year) The Digital Design and Delivery (DDD) division leads the design and delivery of next generation digital public services for the Government of Alberta. Using modern, user centred, agile approaches, DDD partners with ministries to deliver services that are simpler, faster, and more impactful for Albertans. Within DDD, the Software Delivery Branch provides architectural leadership, CloudOps, DevOps practices, quality engineering, and software delivery excellence across product and platform teams. The Digital Architect plays a key role in shaping how digital solutions are designed, evolved, and governed, balancing innovation with reliability, security, and public sector responsibility. Role Responsibilities The Software Delivery Branch is looking for three Digital Architects. These positions will report directly to the Director of Architecture. These roles are ideal for experienced System Analysts, Senior Technologists, or emerging Architects who are ready to grow their architectural leadership capabilities. You will help teams modernize platforms, reduce technical debt, and responsibly integrate emerging technologies, including AI, while learning and evolving alongside a strong architecture community of practice. The responsibilities of these roles include: Providing architectural vision and leadership across multidisciplinary product teams, guiding endtoend solution design from concept through implementation, including AI/ML capabilities. Evaluating and selecting technologies, platforms, and vendors, ensuring alignment with Government of Alberta strategy, enterprise standards, and longterm sustainability. Defining and applying architectural standards and principles to ensure scalable, secure, highperforming digital solutions and responsible AI use. Engaging internal and external stakeholders to guide complex design decisions and align business outcomes with technical feasibility and responsible AI practices. Leading the growth of the inhouse architecture practice, enabling scalable, usercentred delivery through agile, crossfunctional teams and modern architectural approaches. Providing senior technical leadership and mentorship, building architectural and AI capability across product teams and supporting succession planning. Driving knowledge transfer and capability uplift, ensuring architectural decisions and patterns are documented, understood, and consistently adopted. Overseeing AIenabled solutions and automation initiatives, ensuring measurable value delivery while managing technical debt, risk, and architectural cohesion. To be successful in these positions, you will demonstrate: Willingness to grow architectural skills and stay current with modern practices Ability to understand how technology, people, and processes work together over time Effectiveness working across disciplines, teams, and ministries Ability to translate complex business needs into practical, welldesigned technical solutions Comfort operating in evolving environments with changing priorities Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences Interest in emerging technologies (including AI), balanced with ethics, security, and public trust Understanding of how architecture enables agile, productfocused delivery. Please click on this link to view the job description for this position. Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process. This link will assist you with understanding competencies: Build Collaborative Environments : Promotes collaboration and positive relationships (even in challenging circumstances) within and across groups and builds commitment to reach desired results. Creative Problem Solving : Continuously engages others to scope and solve issues and find the best solutions. Encourages debate and idea generation from across the organization. Develop Networks : Considers how changes might impact colleagues, clients, and stakeholders, and actively seeks their input and/or involvement regarding those changes. Drive for Results : Sets and accomplishes goals and priorities in order to deliver outcomes consistent with Government direction, departmental objectives, and public expectations. Systems Thinking : Consistently takes a holistic and longterm view of challenges and opportunities at multiple levels across related areas. Agility : Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment. Qualifications Requirements: University Degree in a Computer Science or related discipline, plus a minimum of four (4) years of related progressively responsible experience. See below for equivalencies. Proven experience in software development, systems analysis, solution design, or technical leadership roles, with demonstrated progression toward architectural responsibility. Demonstrated experience designing, reviewing, or guiding digital solutions, including responsibility for system structure, integration, nonfunctional requirements, and longterm maintainability. Experience working with modern architecture patterns, such as cloud native and platform architectures, API first design, event driven and asynchronous integration, and scalable distributed systems. Experience leveraging AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery, with disciplined validation (automated testing, peer review, secure coding) and privacy/securityfirst responsible use. Practical experience using or enabling AIrelated capabilities within digital solutions, including: integrating AI/ML services or automation into applications, designing systems that consume AIdriven insights or decision support, supporting data pipelines, model integration, or AIenabled workflows. Experience working in agile or productcentred delivery environments, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams. A related two-year diploma in related discipline from a recognized post secondary institution and six (6) years related experience; or A related one-year certificate from a recognized post-secondary institution and seven (7) years related experience. Assets: Experience in a formal Digital Architect, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect or Lead Technical role. Handson experience designing or governing AI enabled or data driven systems, including familiarity with AI/ML concepts such as model lifecycle, inference, automation, or MLOps. Knowledge of responsible AI practices, including considerations for ethics, privacy, security, transparency, and risk management in public sector contexts. Experience developing and/or leading architecture standards, patterns, or governance processes. Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards Term of Employment : Permanent, Full-time position Hours of Work : 7.25 hours daily / 36.25 weekly Monday to Friday Location : Edmonton This position is eligible for remote work. Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening. This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level. Applicants are required to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies. Additional Information : In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week). Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees. Positive workplace culture and work-life balance Leadership and mentorship programs How To Apply Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies. Candidates are required to apply for a job online. Please visit https://www.alberta.ca/job-application-resources#before for more information. Please visit Recruitment Principles , for more information. It is recommended applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS)( https://www.alberta.ca/international-qualifications-assessment.aspx ) or from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator; please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada for more information (https://canalliance.org/en/default.html ). It is recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application. Closing Statement This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level. We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates'''' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted. If you require any further information on this job posting or require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Michelle Elliott at [email protected] . #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Digital Architect