IT Infrastructure Services 4 - Solution Architect
Your Opportunity:
Are you passionate about improving healthcare through modern architecture and purposeful technology change? Health Shared Services (HSS) IT is modernizing how digital services support care delivery across Alberta, and we’re hiring a Solution Architect to help lead that transformation. This is a multi-domain architecture role - not aligned to a single product, platform, or application development team. You will work across vendor platforms and custom solutions, on prem and cloud, partnering with clinical and business leaders, service owners, and delivery teams to shape outcomes that are safe, usable, secure, and supportable. You are a hands-on architect who can start in ambiguity: run discovery, map value streams and capabilities, define target-state options, and translate them into a sequenced roadmap. You’ll collaborate across service and organizational boundaries in an IT service management environment and help teams deliver iteratively while balancing stability, privacy, and patient safety.
Description:
Your key responsibilities include: 1) Discover & Map Lead value stream and capability mapping with clinical areas; document current state, pain points, and desired outcomes. Define target-state options and transition roadmaps that sequence value delivery across services and platforms. 2) Design & Decide Produce end-to-end solution architectures (context, data, integration, security/privacy, and NFRs) and drive key design decisions. Establish integration and data patterns (API, event, batch) that are secure, reusable, and aligned to enterprise principles. 3) Deliver & Enable Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams; remove blockers; support rapid prototyping where it reduces uncertainty. Mentor analysts and developers; build internal capability in architecture thinking and modern delivery practices. 4) Operate & Govern Partner with service owners to ensure operability: monitoring/observability, reliability, support readiness, and clear ownership. Participate in architecture and change governance; present options with trade-offs and support investment planning (cost/risk/value). 5) Improve the System Contribute to standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns; continuously learn and apply emerging approaches responsibly within privacy and safety constraints. What you’ll bring to the role: Broad architectural capability spanning business, application, integration, and information architecture. A “commando” mindset: comfortable starting alone, bringing others along, and turning ambiguity into actionable architecture. Excellent communication and collaboration skills across clinical, technical, and executive stakeholders. A DevOps mindset focused on automation, continuous improvement, and reliable operations. A sense of curiosity and desire to continually learn and improve yourself.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: IT Infrastructure Services 4
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Clinical Services IT Projects
- Primary Location: CN Tower
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 20-FEB-2026
- Date Available: 02-MAR-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.82
- Maximum Salary: $64.86
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Related university degree (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering) plus at least four (4) years of progressive experience in architecture, software delivery, integration, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated experience producing solution architecture for complex, multi-system initiatives (including integrations, data flows, and non-functional requirements). Working knowledge across architecture domains: business, information/data, application, technology, security, and privacy. Hands-on experience with application integration patterns (APIs, messaging/events, ETL/ELT) and modern SDLC practices. Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and advise decision-makers using clear trade-offs (risk, cost, value, time). Experience designing for operability in production: monitoring/observability, resiliency, support transitions, and clear ownership. Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) and hybrid/on prem environments.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Experience leading discovery with clinical and business areas; independently facilitating value stream mapping, capability mapping, and current/future state process analysis. Experience translating business and clinical outcomes into architecture decisions, roadmaps, and measurable success criteria. Strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills in a multi-stakeholder, multi-tier environment (frontline to executive). Comfortable operating in an ITIL/IT service management environment with service owners, governed change, and risk-based decision making. Pragmatic problem-solver who can modernize incrementally (reduce technical debt, improve integration and data consistency) while protecting patient safety, privacy, and service stability. Clear written communication skills (architecture decision records, diagrams, standards) and strong collaboration across clinical, technical, and vendor partners.
Preferred Qualifications:
Healthcare / life sciences industry experience (clinical workflows, regulated environments) or comparable safety-critical domains. Enterprise architecture/modeling tools (e.g., BizzDesign, Orbus, Archi) and capability/value-stream artifacts. DevOps and platform practices (automation-first, CI/CD, IaC); FinOps familiarity is an asset. Architecture governance, risk management, and vendor platform integration (e.g., EHR/EMR ecosystems).
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
