Senior Data Architect (Dynamics 365)

• Contract
• Remote (within Canada)
• Posted on March 20, 2026

Tri-global Solutions Group Inc.

SENIOR DATA ARCHITECT (Microsoft Dynamics 365 – OPGT Information System Replacement)

Requisition #: R26-3466 (GOAPRDJP00000869)

Location: Remote (within Canada)

Engagement Type: Contract

Number of Resources required: 1

Rate (CAD): Up to $110.00 per hour / Commensurate with related experience and market competitiveness

Term: 12 months (2026-04-13 to 2027-03-31)

Hours per day: 7.25

Security Screening: Enhanced Security Clearance (which includes a financial credit report)

Submission Deadline/Closing Date: March 25, 2026 (12:00 PM Mountain Time)

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Tri-global Solutions Group Inc. is seeking one (1) Senior Data Architect (Microsoft Dynamics 365 – OPGT Information System Replacement) to join our Service Delivery team with the Ministry of Assisted Living and Social Services (Government of Alberta).

WORK MODEL: The successful candidate(s) will work remotely with optional onsite meetings, upon approval. It’s anticipated the role will be 100% remote. Work must be done from within Canada, due to network and data security policies. Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada to apply (e.g., Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, etc.). Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding observed holidays.

Please review the project overview and requirements below. If you meet the requirements and are interested in submitting for this role, please reply to this job posting.

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Tri-global Solutions Group Inc.

Website: https://tri-global.com

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Project Name:

OPGT Public Trustee Information System Replacement

Scope:

GoA’s Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) provides services for personal/financial matters to vulnerable Albertans. Financial services use comprehensive case management and financial systems for trust administration. This project replaces their legacy system with Microsoft Dynamics’ Customer Relationship Management and Financial components.

System development is underway by an external vendor with go-live in late 2026. Agile sprint development is in place with a waterfall timeline for full release of the solution. The delivery team is supported by a GoA team (Manager, Product Owner, Change Manager/Trainer, Data Migration Team, Testers), vendor development team, and Technology and Innovation’s (T&I) technical/privacy/security teams, and business stakeholders/SMEs.

The Data Architect is critical in defining, executing and managing data architecture domain to ensure project, security, technical and strategic objectives are met.

The role provides leadership and expertise across architecture design, governance, security, and modernization—ensuring alignment with GoA standards and business needs.

Working closely with stakeholders, the role leads design/development of overarching data requirements and establishes principles, strategies, architectures, methods, models, standards and plans needed to provision data for the solution. They will establish a secure, high performing, analytics ready data architecture that supports operations, enterprise reporting and advanced analytics.

OPGT: https://www.alberta.ca/office-public-guardian-trustee.aspx

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

This role provides architectural and technical expertise, leadership and data management services to ensure data quality, security, effectiveness and value.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Architecture Leadership

• Define/document data architecture (data requirements, strategies/plans, architecture, design principles, models, integration diagrams etc.)
• Lead solution architecture and design on cloud and key data platforms. Ensure alignment with business requirements
• Lead design and governance of schemas, tables, relationships, security roles and data access patterns
• Promote data models and practices to reduce redundancy
• Guide platform/infrastructure teams to configure data platform services to meet solution requirements.
• Participate in planning on implementation strategy, technology stack, design patterns and process
• Advise on configuration vs customization to support long term sustainability
• Review/approve vendor delivered data designs, strategies and implementations
• Advise and coach teams throughout project. Provide knowledge transfer

Enterprise Data Architecture

• Define end to end data architecture, including all integrated applications and systems; develop conceptual, logical and data models aligned with platform standards, enterprise data policies, including Dataverse data modeling
• Ensure architectural alignment across system modules, integrated applications, Power Platform components, Azure and downstream reporting environments
• Establish data architecture principles and standards consistent with GoA architecture frameworks
• Architect integrations between solution and external systems, including legacy platforms, document repositories, etc
• Ensure data exchanges meet security, privacy and auditability standards
• Work with Microsoft Dynamics to design how data is organized, stored, integrated and managed across Dynamics 365 ecosystem and broader Microsoft cloud environment (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric)
• Work with Microsoft Dynamics’ Finance & Operations for managing financial data

Data Migration

• Serve as GoA lead in data mapping from legacy platform to the new application, ensuring accurate lineage, transformations and alignment with new data models
• Collaborate with vendor to validate mapping logic, support build activities, and ensure mappings are technically feasible
• Work with business areas to define/confirm data rules, resolve data gaps, and ensure mappings support functional, operational, and reporting needs
• Lead data migration strategy. Define extraction, transformation, cleansing, and validation approaches aligned with business rules. Ensure data integrity, traceability, and reconciliation throughout migration activities
• Support parallel-run and cutover strategies to minimize business disruption

Data Lakehouse – Architecture & Design

• Define data warehouse/lakehouse approach and architecture and related requirements
• Define storage, archival and retrieval approach for legacy data and target data structures and storage solutions for new system data to ensure performance and long term maintainability
• Use Microsoft tools to create a modern data warehouse/lakehouse (e.g. Azure Services – Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks for big data processing, analytics, data warehousing)
• Design data mesh/lakehouse architectures using Microsoft Azure technology stack to unify data management and analytics.

Data Quality & Readiness

• Define data quality standards, validation rules and acceptance criteria for migrated and operational data
• Support business validation activities, including sampling, reconciliation and exception management
• Ensure data readiness across project stages (e.g. user acceptance testing, training, go-live)
• Identify and mitigate data-related risks early

Data Governance & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with GoA policies – privacy, records management, data retention, access control, etc
• Define and enforce data classification, retention schedules, and information lifecycle management within platform and integrated platforms
• Collaborate with security, privacy, records management teams to implement data governance practices/controls. Support audits, compliance reviews, architectural assurance processes

Reporting

• Ensure new solution and data architecture enable effective reporting/analytics, including in solution dashboards and Power BI reports
• Define data flows into reporting platforms and downstream analytics environments
• Ensure consistency between operational and analytical data models
• Ensure architecture security, enforcing data/reports are only accessible to certain individuals/groups
• Implement anonymization, restricting access to sensitive data from certain individuals/groups

Delivery Oversight

• Oversight across Agile delivery cycles, ensuring data considerations are embedded early in design and backlog refinement
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming and design reviews from an architecture perspective
• Identify dependencies, risks, constraints impacting timelines. Support realistic sequencing/release planning for data-related work
• Develop project plans/schedules and estimates for data activities. Develop task lists and resource assignments to ensure completion of data activities

Vendor & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate/consult effectively with project stakeholders. Review vendor deliverables for compliance/quality
• Translate technical data concepts, risks, options and recommendations into clear, actionable guidance for business stakeholders. Provide strategic guidance. Support executive decision-making
• Document technical recommendations

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related field of study in Canada, or foreign credentials certified by Immigration Canada, IQAS or any accreditation acceptable to the Government of Canada or Alberta. (Yes or No)
• Experience as a Data Architect planning, designing, documenting and implementing enterprise data architectures for large complex cloud-based application development projects in an environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta. (7 years+)
• Experience designing solutions that enable complex reporting and analytics in Power BI. (7 years+)
• Experience developing and presenting complex data concepts, recommendations and decisions in an easy-to-understand manner to non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership. (7 years+)
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with enterprise data policies including within Microsoft Dataverse. (7 years+)
• Experience implementing data management platforms/solutions and applying enterprise architecture principles, methods, standards, tools and best practices. (7 years+)
• Experience leading the definition of detailed data mapping and data migration activities for large enterprise implementations. (7 years+)
• Experience with data transformation and data orchestration techniques. (7 years+)
• Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365, including how data is managed across the Dynamics platform and in the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem. (7 years+)

DESIRABLE / NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). (Yes or No)
• Active Azure certificates: AZ-305. Please attach to the bottom of the resume. (Yes or No)
• Experience applying enterprise data architecture principles, methods, standards, tools and best practices. (7 years+)
• Experience as a Data Architect planning, designing, documenting and implementing enterprise data architectures for large complex cloud-based application development projects in an environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta. (7 years+)
• Experience defining data architecture for large/complex Financial enterprise solutions/systems. (7 years+)
• Experience developing and presenting complex data concepts, recommendations and decisions in an easy-to-understand manner to non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership. (7 years+)
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with enterprise data policies including within Microsoft Dataverse. (7 years+)
• Experience in Agile Projects. (5 years+)
• Experience in performing security, threat and risk assessments including defining mitigations. (5 years+)
• Experience leading and coaching data and project teams through large-scale implementations including data readiness, data quality, data storage. (7 years+)
• Experience leading and designing data migration activities for large-scale implementations from legacy application to cloud in Azure. (7 years+)
• Experience with data transformation and data orchestration techniques and tools, including ETL/ELT, data quality and metadata management. (7 years+)
• Experience with enterprise business intelligence products such as Microsoft Power BI. (5 years+)
• Experience with Microsoft tools to create a modern data warehouse (e.g. Azure Services such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric for big data processing, analytics, and data warehousing). (7 years+)
• Experience working in or for the public sector. (5 years+)
• Experience working with implementing a SQL data warehouse. (7 years+)
• Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365, including how data is structured, stored, integrated and managed across the Dynamics platform and in the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem (Power Platform, Azure, Microsoft Fabric). (7 years+)

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WHY WORK WITH TRI-GLOBAL?

• Empower positive change by enabling our clients to revolutionize innovation and technology, elevating them to a higher level of excellence and efficiency.
• Join an exceptional and committed team that redefines the landscape, forging a distinctive path towards success.
• Engage in stimulating and captivating projects that push boundaries and keep you constantly motivated.

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