Technical Architecture Specialist

Technical Architecture Specialist

·        Pay Rate: (flexible)

·        Location: Toronto ON

·        Contract Length:12 months

Work Type: Hybrid

We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Government Sector Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide senior-level technical expertise to support the City’s Disaster Recovery Program and enterprise resilience initiatives.
• Work closely with application owners, infrastructure owners, solution architects, cybersecurity teams, project teams, operational teams, and vendors.
• Provide technical leadership across recovery planning, architecture, implementation, testing, readiness assessment, and continual improvement.
• Serve as a disaster recovery technical subject-matter expert.
• Help ensure recovery solutions are practical, secure, supportable, aligned with City requirements, and capable of meeting approved Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Review and challenge technical assumptions, identify gaps and dependencies, and recommend proportionate risk treatments.
• Assess application and infrastructure recovery architectures.
• Support the development and review of technical recovery strategies, plans, runbooks, and procedures.
• Coordinate cross-functional recovery activities.
• Support recovery solution implementation.
• Lead or facilitate DR testing and validation.
• Document findings, maintain traceability to requirements, and support closure or formal disposition of identified risks and issues.
• Apply broad knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and application dependencies, including compute, virtualization, operating systems, storage, backup and recovery, databases, networks, security controls, identity services, cloud platforms, and high-availability technologies.
• Translate complex technical information into clear options, decisions, risks, and actions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Transition, following completion of the current DR project, into DR program sustainment activities.
• Support sustainment through governance support, periodic architecture and plan reviews, testing coordination, compliance monitoring, reporting, remediation tracking, readiness assessments, and ongoing improvement of recovery capabilities.

DR Architecture & Design

• Review application and infrastructure architectures from a DR perspective.
• Identify recovery risks, dependencies, and single points of failure.
• Develop and review DR solution designs and recovery strategies.
• Validate alignment with RTOs and RPOs.

Recovery Planning & Readiness

• Support development of DR plans and recovery procedures.
• Review plans for completeness and compliance.
• Conduct readiness assessments and gap analyses.
• Assess backup, replication, failover, and high-availability capabilities.

DR Testing

• Develop and coordinate DR testing programs.
• Facilitate tabletop exercises, simulations, and failover tests.
• Validate recovery capabilities and document results.
• Track remediation actions and retesting.

Incident & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in post-mortems and service reviews.
• Assess incidents from a resilience perspective.
• Track lessons learned and corrective actions.

Governance & Stakeholder Support

• Support DR policies, standards, and governance.
• Monitor compliance with DR requirements.
• Prepare technical reports and presentations.
• Engage business, application, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Qualifications

1. Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
2. Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, architecture, disaster recovery, or related technical disciplines.
3. Experience designing, implementing, reviewing, or testing DR, failover technologies and high-availability solutions in large enterprise environments.
4. Experience in application and IT infrastructure recovery architectures, readiness assessments, and technical risk assessments.
5. Experience working with cross-functional technical and business stakeholders.
6. Experience in implementing wide spectrum of technologies – Windows, Linux, VMware, storage, databases, networking, and cybersecurity technologies.
7. Experience in a large public-sector or highly regulated environment.
8. Industry certifications: CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301, ITIL, TOGAF, Azure, AWS, or other related certifications.
9. Demonstrate superior project management skills and experience in the full lifecycle of technology implementation and configuration.
10. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently.
11. Ability to translate complex technical concepts into executable recommendations.
12. Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident) communicating at all levels including business partners, leadership, internal teams and vendors.

Deliverables

Key Deliverables:

• DR architecture reviews and recommendations.
• Recovery plans, runbooks, and technical procedures.
• DR test plans, reports, evidence, and remediation tracking.
• Recovery readiness assessments and compliance reporting.
• Executive briefings, governance updates, and sustainment documentation.
• Assure the quality of software delivered by the team.

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