Office Administrator

Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables

To take a leadership role acting on behalf of ODS Program Implementation Office, and the Ontario Digital Service for the technology architecture, design and build of a digital credential platform and related products

To design and maintain a digital credential technology architecture representing the necessary ecosystem components that is based on the world wide web consortium (W3C) verifiable credentials (VC) model, utilizing decentralized identifiers (DIDs), DIDComm communication protocols, and related industry standards and frameworks such as the PCTF, NIST and eIDAS etc

Work with ministry/OPS staff to lead the development of key (technology) architecture artefacts to support the architectural gating process

Development of an implementation roadmap and options for a verifiable credential model approach, that takes into consideration the requisite components, technology required/involved, ministry readiness, market readiness and maturity; develop short term tactical and longer term strategic implantation plans and options

Identify and evaluate commercially ready products and open source solutions that are viable for use and implementation; including assessment and recommendations of products

Align the technology architecture for digital credentialing (VC Model, DID) with the Enterprise Identity and Access Management solution to ensure integration where required, including alignment with the OPS policy on identity and credential assurance levels.

Work with product teams to develop the technology requirements and to ensure alignment towards the enterprise solution approach and roadmap.

Lead and work with technical and product development engineers to develop functional proofs of concept, pilot implementations and/or final product implementations of solutions that align with the enterprise digital credential solutions roadmap, including digital wallets, mobile apps on iOS/Android devices, web sites and back-end infrastructure.

Lead multi-disciplinary and globally distributed teams to solution delivery, utilizing collaboration platforms and agile delivery methodology.

Engage with, and facilitate contributions from the OpenSource community to solve solution challenges, obtain advice and to align Ontario s approach with the direction of the community.

Provide technology advice and recommendations to executives, management and product teams working on digital credentialing solutions; prepare communications/briefing material as required to effectively communicate recommendations and/or findings from assessments

Provide expertise and guidance to product, policy and technical implementation teams regarding use, adoption and alignment with industry standards to maximize interoperability and avoid product lock-in; develop recommendations for adoption of standards and related frameworks for digital identity.

General Role Responsibilities:

• Develops, recommends, implements and manages the technical architecture (hardware, software, database and communications) which will be used for all or specific applications in a large, distributed cross-platform environment.
  
• Responsibilities also include the identification of relevant information and the determination of the environment, which will be used for development.
  

Requirements

General Skills:

• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical architectures at the specified experience level
  
• Extensive experience with at least three different platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, and communications protocols
  
• Experience with middleware and gateways
  
• Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments
  
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of applications
  
• Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments
  
• Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL and is able to guide others using this methodology
  
• Experience translating business requirements into reporting needs
  
• Experience preparing conceptual, logical and/or physical processes and data models
  
• Experience developing, recommending, implementing and managing technical architecture
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and other software tools such as project management tools
  
• Awareness of emerging technologies, trends and directions
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models)
  

• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Enterprise Content Management (Open Text ECM applications)
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
  

Required Skills

Demonstrated Technology Leadership, and Vision - Develop, socialize and obtain buy in for multi-year technology roadmaps, and must include recent example involving digital identity

10+ years in designing and developing enterprise technology solutions in complex environments, with experience in both public/broader public and private sectors

Experience in developing digital credential solutions, including digital wallet solutions on mobile (ie. iOS and Android) devices, distributed ledger technologies, verifiable credentials (VC), verifiable credential registries, verifiable presentations, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), use cryptographic suites/tools, zero-knowledge proofs

Extensive knowledge of related standards and market direction - W3C, DIF, TrustOverIP, OIDC and Hyperledger Aries. Specific technologies JWT/JWS, JSON-LD, Public/Private key cryptography (EdDsa, EcDSA), zero knowledge proofs (BBS+, CL signatures), DIDComm, ACA-Py, Aries framework Javascript, SIOP, Oauth2 OpenID Connect

Experience with and understanding of the W3C recommendations and working drafts of: Verifiable Credential (VC) Data Model, VC Implementation Guidelines, Decentralized Identifiers, DID Specification Registries and related specifications and frameworks.

Experience with designing/developing digital credential solutions that use/are integrated with distributed ledger technology, including use of wallet applications on mobile devices and/or in cloud based environments

Expertise in designing, building and configuring infrastructure in a cloud environment (Azure RedHat OpenShift)

Experience in developing solutions utilizing hardware level encryption (HLE) in local and cloud based environments; secure elements on mobile devices (e.g Apple Secure Enclave)

Extensive Mobile development experience on Android and IOS - React Native, Javascript, GitHub

Expert knowledge and experiences on Web 2.0 technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, jQuery, Angular, Bootstrap, Python

Expert knowledge in designing and developing solutions using programming languages such as Java, C, C#,

Expert knowledge and experience with RESTful API services, Web Services and SOAP

Experience designing and developing cloud native solutions; use of containers, etc

Leading technical software engineers through the design process, and demonstrating examples through functional code development.

Experience leading architecture teams and delivery of key design artifacts - including solution requirements and solution architecture documents

Mange offshore and global development teams - team building through project delivery, use of collaboration platforms and agile project delivery. Experience working with cross-jurisdictional / interprovincial teams in a government a setting/environment

Excellent written and illustration/design skills to formulate technical documentation; evaluation and comparison documents and recommendations for management decision

Excellent verbal and presentation capability to brief senior management and executives on various components of the technical design, architecture and/or solution components.

Benefits