Canada - Two (2) Level 3 Technology Architect Senior (IC193961)

Description

Tendering Procedure: Selective Tendering
This requirement is open only to those TBIPS Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under Tier 1 for services in the National Capital Region for the following Stream:
Two (2) Level 3 Technology Architect Senior
The following SA Holders have been invited to submit a proposal:

Altruistic Informatics Consulting Inc.
Beyond Technologies Consulting Inc.
Dare Human Resources Corporation
CompuCom Canada Co.
Equasion Business Technologies consulting Inc.
Flex Tech Services Inc.
Harrington Marketing Limited
IBM Canada Limited
IT/NET OTTAWA INC, KPMG LLP, in joint venture
Lannick Contract Solutions Inc.
MDOS Consulting Inc.
Semantic Consulting Inc.
Sierra Systems Group Inc.
SnapSEARCH Inc.
TPG Technology Consulting Ltd.

*** There are NO contractors performing services described in this RFP
SCOPE OF WORK / KEY ACTIVITIES
Tasks are centered on the application architecture, development, support and operational activities on multi platforms midrange and mainframe for CIPO business lines projects and maintenance within CIPOASDS in the Digital Transformation Services Sector, of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and Shared Service Canada (SSC) services.
These resources will provide the following tasks and services but will not be limited to the following:
Technology Architect Level 3 – Resource #1

Architect technology designs to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation of CIPO’s Web based applications;
Architect technology designs and plans to organize and co-ordinate the configuration, integration and installation of CIPO’s business applications storage requirements;
Prepare, participate and review technical documents, including project plans, operational plans, application integration plans, operations schedules, release schedules, productivity improvements, application log files, guides, documentation for use by colleagues, management, application development/maintenance teams and enterprise and business architect teams;
Research CIPO’s application software requirement’s compatibility with new/proposed software releases;
Provide expertise to CIO’s Business Solution Branch and IT Service Partners regarding the mainframe, midrange environments, SAN storage, Tivoli product suite, WebSphere version 8.5 and above, Search Engines and Solr;
Provide expertise relating to data exchange and open data business requirements and products;
Provide expertise to CIO’s Business Solution Branch and IT Service Partners regarding application integration on midrange, mainframe and network systems;
Monitor client/server systems utilization, performance and event logs, forecast demands and recommend system improvements to meet CIPO’s business requirements;
Participate in the analysis, development, integration, testing, tuning and implementation of applications, projects, initiatives to determine their impact on CIPO’s business lines applications;
Design, configure and support virtual IBM AIX LPAR environments based on redundant servers running 50+ LPARs;
Provide 3rd level configuration and application support to a midrange and/or z/OS based WebSphere environment involving multiple development, quality assurance, and production support environments each with its own databases and connectivity to legacy systems and /or external interfaces;
Architect a technology plan to design and implement a virtualized server environment to support a multi-phase application release architecture involving multiple development, quality assurance and production support environments, each with its own databases and connectivity to legacy systems and/or external interfaces;
Install, configure and support a multiplatform job scheduling capability to support the application batch jobs;
Develop, configure, install, test, implement and maintain LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) in a virtualized midrange environment to support WebSphere midrange and application authentication;
Investigate and/or participate in the investigation for a new search engine to replace Solr software used by CIPO business line applications;
Install, configure and support Solr Search Engine on CIPO mid-range environments and customize for each application;
Participate, install, configure and support new search Engines used by CIPO business line applications;
Monitor and resolve problems identified in daily health check on an on-going basis;
Analyze, plan, develop, maintain and update daily health check scripts as required by the evolving business applications;
Monitor, report and participate in the resolution of event log error files notification;
Script and document operational support processes;
Manage repository and multiple Solr indexes;
Analyze business requirements and recommend evergreen solutions;
Participate in Threat Risk Assessments;
Participate in Project Readiness Reviews;
Participate in Network design meeting between multiple government departments;
Provide expertise to troubleshoot performance issues and production problems;
Test and co-ordinate implementation of solutions;
Adhere to CIO’s service management procedures;
Work in collaboration with CIO’s Enterprise and Business Architecture Teams;
Provide WebSphere version 5.1 and above expertise on projects, initiatives and application; and


Design, configure and support high availability applications server environment allowing 24/7 availability while performing server and application maintenance;
Provide WebSphere expertise related to architecture, configuration and implementation of projects and initiatives business application requirements and system upgrades;
Perform daily server/application health check report;
Provide a Weekly Activities Summary report;
Provide a Weekly Project/Task report;
Provide ad hoc Performance reports in response to business applications implementations; and
Provide Architecture Evolution plans to align with CIPO’s IT Modernization Strategy.
Complete and submit, for weekly approval, time sheets by project using the (in-house) Project Tracking System.

Technology Architect Level 3 – Resource #2

Architect a technology plan to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation of CIPO’s Web based applications;
Architect a technology plan to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation for network communications, between the midrange and z/OS, Linux and Windows environments for various applications ( DB2, CM8, WebSphere, and CIPO’s custom client/server based applications);
Architect a technology plan to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation and maintenance for DB2 Connect services;
Architect a technology plan to organize and manage the configuration, integration and installation of secure communications between CIPO’s client Windows workstations and z/OS servers (Windows and z/OS encryption integration);
Architect a technology plan to organize and co-ordinate the configuration, integration and installation of CIPO’s business applications storage requirements;
Provide expertise to CIO’s Digital Services Division (DSD) and IT Service Partners regarding the midrange, z/OS, AIX, Linux and Windows environments;
Provide expertise to CIO’s Digital Services Division (DSD) and IT Service Partners regarding network integration between the midrange, z/OS, Linux and Windows environments;
Provide expertise to CIO’s Digital Services Division (DSD) and IT Service Partners regarding midrange and z/OS security;
Provide expertise relating to a midrange and/or z/OS based WebSphere environment involving multiple development, quality assurance and production support environments, each with its own databases and connectivity to legacy systems and/or external interfaces;
Provide expertise relating to a multi-platform (z/OS, UNIX and Windows) Job Scheduling capability to support the batch maintenance jobs;
Provide expertise relating to the data exchange and open data business requirements and products;
Prepare, participate and review technical documents, including project plans, operational plans, application integration plans, operations schedules, release schedules, productivity improvements, application log files, guides, documentation for use by colleagues, management and application development/maintenance teams;
Monitor, document and report on CIPO’s systems and applications availability;
Provide expertise on how to optimize application availability;
Monitor and provide support for CIPO’s custom applications running in a Windows environment;
Define, update and provide support for CM8 workstation configuration on both the client Windows workstation and the mainframe;
Mantain the technology plan to implement and maintain systems and applications availability and performance monitoring for multiple operating environments and applications;
Mantain the technology plan and co-ordinate implementation of an appropriate backup strategy;
Provide automatic notification for abnormal events;
Research CIPO’s application software requirements compatibility with new software releases;
Monitor client/server utilization and performance, forecast demands and recommend system improvements to meet CIPO’s business applications requirements;
Participate in the analysis, development, integration, testing, tuning and implementation of applications, projects and initiatives to determine their impact on CIPO’s business lines applications;
Maintain the technology plan to develop, configure, install, test and implement LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) in a virtualized midrange environment to support WebSphere midrange and application authentication;
Monitor and resolve incidents/problems identified and assigned by first level support on an on-going basis;
Monitor, report and participate in the resolution of event log error files notification;
Script and document operational processes;
Manage repository and multiple Solr indexes;
Analyze business requirements and recommend evergreen solutions;
Participate in Threat Risk Assessments;
Participate in Project Readiness Reviews;
Participate in Network design meeting between multiple government departments;
Provide expertise to troubleshoot performance issues and production problems;
Test and co-ordinate implementation of solutions;
Adhere to CIO’s service management procedures;
Assist with and participate in the delivery of high availability applications services. 
In collaboration with OGDs, provide network expertise related to architecture, configuration and implementation of projects and initiatives business application requirements and system upgrades;
Provide a Weekly Activity Summary report;
Provide weekly application transactions report;
In collaboration with OGDs, provide detailed network configuration diagrams and reports;
Provide monthly system and application availability reports;
Provide ad hoc performance reports in response to business application implementations; and
Provide Architecture Evolution plans to align with CIPO’s IT Modernization Strategy.
Complete and submit, for weekly approval, time sheets by project using the (in-house) Project Tracking System.

Opportunity closing date

09 December 2019

Value of contract

to be confirmed