Sr. Technical Architect

Employment Status:Regular

Time Type:Full time

BUILDING A WORLD CLASS TEAM STARTS WITH YOU

At the heart of CSA Group is a vision: making the world a better, safer, more sustainable place. It's been part of our mission for nearly one hundred years: from the first engineering standard for railway bridges developed in 1919, to more than 3,500 standards, codes & related products today.

Headquartered in Canada, with a global footprint of more than 30 labs and offices across Europe, Asia and North America, CSA Group tests, inspects and certifies a wide range of products - from every day househould items to leading edge technology-to meet exacting requirements for safety, performance and environmental impact.

Our employees take pride in making a difference in people's lives through the work that we do. We're looking for people like you to help make it happen.

Job Summary:

The Senior Technical Architect role is responsible to:

• Ensure CSA Group’s enterprise systems, services and technology solutions are built, implemented and maintained for high availability, scalability, security, integrity, and supportability.
• Identify gaps and drive solutions for critical systems, services and technologies.
• Have advanced technical knowledge and a wide range of understanding in new and emerging IT technologies.
• Provide recommendations on new technologies and solutions, in support of business direction to meet either revenue growth, profitability targets, operational efficiencies, or to manage risk.

Principal Responsibilities & Duties:

Understanding the Business

• Deep subject matter expertise of CSA Group’s systems, services and technologies.
• Strong understanding of entire CSA Group IT architectural or technical landscape, including integrations and interdependencies.
• Strong understanding of business requirements and implements IT Projects for Global strategic solutions (either application or infrastructure related).
• Participates in architecting solutions using industry standard concepts.
• Manages solution design based on detailed business requirements.
• Prepares technical specifications and documents that effectively translates requirements into IT tasks to deliver acceptable business solutions.
• Provides recommendations on emerging technologies and assists in planning roadmaps to support new technology.
• Establishes development guidelines based on industry best practice.
• Consumes services provided by third party vendors.
• Protects CSA Group’s information assets.

Working Well with Others

• Supports core IT and/or Business Leaders through communication and solution design for all IT projects.
• Provides technical guidance and consultation to project and IT team members. 
• May lead and facilitate technical discussions, or process improvement teams, participating in design sessions, and transform requirements into IT solutions.
• Communicates expectation well to other team members.
• Mentors and coaches other IT employees, supporting professional growth.

Delivering Results

• Provides design, configuration, testing, deployment, management and monitoring of critical infrastructure, systems and services, for projects or upgrades, on a global scale.
• Applies troubleshooting, prioritization and coordination skills to assign and resolve escalated issues.
• Seeks, recommends and implements process improvement opportunities.
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously.

Qualifications:

• University Degree in Computer Science or Software/Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in related technologies
• Experience with Microsoft Office 365 (including hybrid) services, design, topology, and products including but not limited to: Exchange SharePoint online, Skype for Business, and OneDrive
• Experience with MS Entra ID, MS Sentinel, MS Purview, MS Defender preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Deployments, Environment & Services (IAAS, PAAS, Virtual Machines, Active Directory, Automation, Monitor, OMS) highly preferred
• Experience with any of the following considered and asset: Darktrace, Netskope, Rapid 7, Snyk, Cloudflare
• Experience in the design and automation of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service capabilities including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, and data services.
• Desire to learn and become familiar with new technologies; assimilate knowledge quickly and effectively
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

CSA Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on any grounds stipulated by applicable laws. We are an organization where opportunities are based on skills and abilities, and differences are respected and valued.  Please contact us at [email protected] if you require accommodation in the interview process.