Clarity PPM Architect

Clarity PPM Architect Optovia | Canada About OptoviaOptovia is a Canadian-owned consulting firm, an official Broadcom Expert Advantage Partner, and a leading Clarity service provider in Canada. We help public and private sector organizations improve how they plan, prioritize, manage, and deliver investments. Our Clarity practice supports enterprise portfolio management, strategic planning, financial management, reporting, and digital transformation, with extensive experience across the Canadian federal government. We are looking for a Senior Clarity PPM Architect who combines strong solution architecture expertise with hands-on development experience. This role offers the opportunity to lead complex client engagements, mentor our technical team, and help shape the continued growth and innovation of Optovia’s Clarity practice.

About the Role
You will lead the design and delivery of Clarity solutions that translate business needs into practical, sustainable outcomes. Working closely with clients, functional consultants, developers, and delivery leads, you will guide architectural decisions while remaining actively involved in configuration, development, integrations, and troubleshooting. You should bring deep experience with Clarity’s Modern UX, a strong understanding of enterprise portfolio management, and a passion for helping clients get measurable value from their investment in the platform.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead solution architecture and technical design for Clarity implementations, enhancements, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
• Facilitate client workshops to understand business objectives, assess requirements, and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Design scalable solutions using Clarity’s Modern UX, custom investment types, blueprints, business rules, configurable workspaces, and supporting data structures.
• Perform hands-on configuration, development, scripting, integration, and technical troubleshooting.
• Establish architectural standards that prioritize out-of-the-box functionality, maintainability, security, performance, and a consistent user experience.
• Lead reporting solutions using Clarity’s Reporting Workspace, Jaspersoft, and the Clarity Data Warehouse, including the assessment and conversion of existing reports.
• Identify and implement practical uses of AI within Clarity to improve user productivity, data quality, and decision-making.
• Design integrations and data migration solutions, including mapping, validation, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Mentor technical Clarity resources through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Support estimates, proposals, demonstrations, and technical presentations to clients.
• Guide testing, deployment, documentation, and knowledge transfer to support successful adoption and ongoing operations. Required Experience and Qualifications
• A minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience with Broadcom Clarity PPM, including significant responsibility for solution architecture and technical delivery.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting Clarity v16.x.
• Extensive experience designing and architecting solutions using Clarity’s Modern UX.
• Strong hands-on experience with Clarity development, configuration, scripting, automation, and administration.
• Experience configuring custom investment types, custom objects and attributes, subobjects, blueprints, business rules, lookups, and security.
• Experience with Clarity’s new Reporting Workspace, including data providers, report design, visualizations, and report access.
• Experience developing and maintaining Jaspersoft reports, including complex queries, parameters, subreports, and report performance optimization.
• Experience applying AI capabilities within Clarity, with the ability to identify useful client scenarios and consider data access, governance, and output quality.
• Strong technical skills in GEL scripting, SQL/NSQL, XML, XOG, REST APIs, and Clarity process automation.
• Experience with Clarity’s Data Warehouse, reporting data models, scheduled jobs, and data quality management.
• Experience delivering integrations, data migrations, upgrades, and transitions from Classic functionality to Modern UX.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions to business and executive audiences. Functional and Platform ExpertiseExperience designing and implementing solutions across a broad range of Clarity capabilities, including:
• Project and Program Management: Project structures, tasks, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, changes, status reporting, and program oversight.
• Portfolio and Investment Management: Investment intake, prioritization, scoring, governance, portfolio planning, and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Application Portfolio Management: Application inventories, assessments, lifecycle planning, rationalization, and relationships with investments and projects.
• Financial Management: Cost plans, budgets, benefit plans, forecasts, actuals, rate matrices, and financial reporting.
• Resource and Capacity Management: Resource and role planning, staffing, allocations, assignments, availability, and capacity analysis.
• Time Management: Modern UX timesheets, approvals, activity tracking, and associated reporting.
• Roadmaps and Strategic Planning: Roadmap development, scenarios, investment alignment, and planning across time horizons.
• Hierarchies: Relationships across investments, consolidated views, and roll-up metrics supporting enterprise oversight.
• Demand and Idea Management: Intake, evaluation, approval processes, and conversion into delivery investments.
• Modern UX Configuration: Blueprints, custom investment types, configurable grids, boards, saved views, channels, and role-appropriate experiences.
• Reporting and Analytics: Reporting Workspace, Jaspersoft, dashboards, executive reporting, and Data Warehouse-based analysis. Leadership and Consulting ApproachWe are looking for someone who:
• Is passionate about innovation and finding practical ways to improve client outcomes.
• Enjoys mentoring and developing other technical Clarity professionals.
• Can balance client leadership, architectural oversight, and hands-on delivery.
• Challenges unnecessary complexity and recommends solutions aligned with business value.
• Takes ownership of quality, communicates proactively, and works collaboratively.
• Maintains a strong interest in Clarity’s evolving capabilities and translates them into meaningful opportunities for clients. Location and Security Requirements
• Must currently reside in Canada and be legally eligible to work in Canada.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain the Canadian federal government security clearance (min 5 years working in Canada)
• Must be able to provide verifiable background information and supporting documentation for the applicable security screening process. Additional Assets
• Experience working with Canadian public sector organizations, particularly federal government departments and agencies.
• Understanding of government investment planning, portfolio governance, application portfolio management, and departmental reporting requirements.
• Experience supporting large enterprise Clarity environments and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience with Clarity SaaS and on-premises environments.
• Experience developing reusable implementation assets, accelerators, and technical standards.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and French. Why Join Optovia?
• Help deliver meaningful Clarity solutions for Canadian public and private sector clients.
• Influence the technical direction and growth of an established Clarity consulting practice.
• Work with experienced consultants who value collaboration, knowledge sharing, and quality delivery.
• Explore emerging capabilities in AI, reporting, and enterprise portfolio management.
• Make a direct impact on client outcomes while helping other technical professionals grow.