Senior Applications Architect - Jobs in Toronto, Ontario

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead the solution design process for high-impact health modernization projects, ensuring architectural alignment with enterprise goals and system strategy
• Collaborate with product owners, vendors, and internal delivery teams to co-design and validate integration strategies across multiple systems
• Act as a bridge between project delivery and long-term sustainability-balancing timelines with system coherence
• Contribute to the evolution of internal design patterns, solution review practices, and platform reuse
• Ensure alignment with semantic standards {(e.g., Fast Candidatealthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOIClient)} and support consistent application across programs

XXred Skills:

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-level data governance frameworks
• Expertise in conceptual architecture for complex digital ecosystems, particularly in health, government, or regulated sectors
• Strong working knowledge of semantic interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, ISO 21090)
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic alignment across multiple programs and platforms, ensuring consistency in architecture, data standards, and delivery approaches across diverse health system initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to work across policy, clinical, and technology domains to frame architecture recommendations that support real-world outcomes
• Knowledge of data utility models, privacy-by-design frameworks, and patient-oriented access controls
• Proven ability to collaborate with architecture teams, data stewards, and delivery leads to integrate strategy into execution
• Excellent strategic thinking, facilitation, and communication skills, including ability to translate complex architecture into plain-language visuals or briefings
• Familiarity with public-sector program planning, governance structures, and initiative sequencing
• Understanding of Information Candidateagement principles, metadata structures, reference vocabularies, and data classification schemes
• Experience producing architectural models, system maps, and modernization roadmaps that influence funding and policy decisions
• Awareness of emerging health system architecture trends (e.g., federated identity, consent orchestration, zero-trust models)
• Experience working with external organizations (e.g., Ministry of Candidatealth, Canada Candidatealth Infoway) on data and platform alignment
• Ability to build trust and model alignment with peers, bringing humility, curiosity, and shared mission orientation

Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:

• Experience working in the health care industry, specifically in health care administration/health care IT.: 20 Points
• Experience defining governance, principals, policies and procedures and leading business and/or IT transformation initiatives.: 20 Points
• Knowledgeable of PHIPA and privacy legislation and how it applies to healthcare IT solutions.: 10 Points
• Experience dealing in a complex multi private/public stakeholder environment.: 10 Points.
• Total evaluation criteria - 100%.