Company Description

Company Description

ADGA Group is a proudly Canadian-owned and operated defence and security technology company. Our core services include value-added program management, agile software engineering development, and integrated security solutions. As an industry partner to the Canadian Government and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for decades, ADGA is actively supporting ongoing and emerging requirements for operational readiness, reconstitution, and modernization.

For decades, we have recruited veterans to integrate their unique skillsets and highly specialized training into our workforce and work culture. At ADGA, we are united by our social purpose to create meaningful employment opportunities for veterans of the CAF and RCMP, their families, and fellow citizens who share a passion to contribute to the security and well-being of Canadians.

ADGA’s social purpose empowers us to reinvest in our employees as well as to donate generously to veteran and military family causes in our community.

Join our team at ADGA, where we prioritize your success by fostering internal movement and growth in a safe, inclusive and agile work environment. We offer a wide variety of career and developmental opportunities, including the option to work on different projects and technologies, on-the-job training, cross-training, access to business and technical online courses, and formal education subsidies.

Job Description

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ADGA is currently looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our team and support activities on one of our well-established Defence contracts! You will be involved in activities in support of special projects (SSE 42) and minor capital projects.

Tasks include, but not limited to:

• Provide depth to the Project Control Office, specifically on overseeing and forecasting capabilities delivered by six major SSE (Safe Secure Engaged 42 projects)
• Evaluate business, information, and architecture, determine its consistency, integration, and alignment with clients’ business strategies, and recommend changes to the business architecture to improve its integration and alignment.
• Identify future business requirements against the current enterprise architecture, perform gap analysis and prepare migration strategies.
• Assess the feasibility of migrating from the current state to the target architecture and enabling technologies, identify the risks associated with migrating to the target architecture and technologies and make recommendations for risk mitigation.
• Manage the development and implementation of an architectural improvement plan.

• Prepare capability roadmaps, dependency diagrams and other associated work products.
• Interact with project management teams, and ensuring architectures are defined and maintained as required.
• Advise and make recommendations on business services and solutions in an Enterprise Architecture context, in support of service delivery to internal/external stakeholders. Minimal outputs in the EA context include CVs, StratVs, CAPVs, and OVs (Common, Strategic, Capability, and Operational Views).
• Analyze business functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows.
• Develop the architectures for where, how, and why the various organizational components fit together as they do, and how they support the organization's mandate.
• Ensure consistency and integration with the organization's architectures and business strategies.
• Conduct an assessment of the business/project's architecture and process for alignment to established architecture frameworks.
• Develop architecture modeling standards, processes, templates, and guidelines, as required.
• Coach, mentor, and train the organization to perform any of the above; and
• Perform any other work related to this category.

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid Secret level 2 clearance.
• A Controlled Goods Certificate is a requirement of our contract. (Consultants must already have this, and ADGA can initiate for full time employees)
• Will be required to work on-site in Gatineau on a full-time basis.
• Must have proof of a university degree from a recognized school the sciences or engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in a minimum of 4 of the following assessment criteria:
  • Client server architecture and related technologies
  • Analyzing, designing, and implementing systems.
  • Communications engineering and systems security.
  • Real-time or distributed systems.
  • Data architecture definition and implementation.
  • System life-cycle management for software intensive systems.
  • Joint or allied interoperability experience with NATO standards. Standards include but not limited to 4355, 4545, 4559, 4607, 4609, 5516, 5525)
  • Experience in process frameworks and applicable standards that include but are not limited to ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15288, ISO 9001, Personnel Software Process, CMMI, IPC-610, IPC-620.

• Must have a minimum of 15 years’ experience in the preparation of technical concept documents, system specifications and technical proposals in the field of information technology, information management, or engineering. (System, Software, Computer, Communication, Security) experience.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in each of the following criteria listed below:
  • Communicating information technology frameworks/strategies to management and technical staff.
  • Communicating system engineering direction for projects or systems.
  • Providing advice, guidance, and recommendations on technical issues to support the decision making of senior management.
  • Leading multi-disciplinary teams in the development of IT tactical systems, frameworks, or strategies.
  • Performing strategic, operational, or tactical planning for projects or systems to meet corporate strategy.

Additional Information

Work-Life Balance

We strongly support a healthy and productive work-life balance. This starts with a flexible approach to work, and policies designed to support employees through their day-to-day routines and major life events. For example, we offer a Maternity/Parental Top-Up (up to 52 weeks) and a Reservist Leave Top-Up (up to 180 days).

Belong@ADGA

ADGA continuously strives to integrate advanced Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) approaches and practices into our work culture. Our employee-based DEI Committee explores activities and invites discussions that foster an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and heard.

Compensation

Above and beyond our commitment to offer a competitive base salary, ADGA has a company-wide profit-sharing plan for all full-time and part-time employees.

Comprehensive Benefits and Total Rewards

We offer a comprehensive benefit program, providing employees with the choice between base or enhanced plans. Depending on the plan, ADGA pays for Health & Dental, a Health Spending Account, Short-Term Disability, an Employee Assistance Program, and a Telemedicine service. Also offered: discounts on gym memberships, 5,000+ perks through Perkoplis, a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan, and access to a wide range of other employee-centric services and savings programs.