Joan Yang
Verified Expert in Engineering
Enterprise Architect and Developer
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toptal member since November 21, 2023
Joan is an enterprise architect who excels in providing technology and architecture visions that align with business priorities and corporate long-term strategy. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working as an IT professional, she has established herself as a leader, advisor, collaborator, educator, and influencer in the area of architecture design. Joan believes trust and collaboration are the key factors to lead teams to success.
Portfolio
Experience
- Implementation - 20 years
- Creative Problem Solving - 20 years
- Architectural Design - 15 years
- Integration - 15 years
- Architecture - 10 years
- Strategic Planning - 10 years
- Azure - 5 years
- TOGAF - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Visio, Miro, Confluence, Jira, Ardoq
The most amazing...
...role I've had involved leading the architecture design and technical implementation of a customer master data management solution and related integration.
Work Experience
Enterprise Architect II
Best Buy Canada
- Led and influenced architects to adopt and practice The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) within the technology community.
- Participated in business and strategic planning, working with vendors, partners, and stakeholders to define products and develop blueprints aligned with corporate and IT strategy, key process initiatives, and business capabilities.
- Created and maintained architectural artifacts like principles, standards, best practices, long-term versions, business capability maps, roadmaps, architectural conceptual and logic design documents, system landscape diagrams, and data flow diagrams.
- Provided vision, strategy, roadmaps, technical solutions, and guidelines to transform monolithic systems and applications into microservices-based architectures that are cloud-friendly and -native.
- Oversaw the end-to-end technical implementation process.
- Contributed to the procurement process by participating in the development of request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) documents.
- Delivered highly available, scalable, cloud-friendly, cloud-native, and secure solution architectures aligned with enterprise architecture (EA) vision and principles, master data model, and security and compliance standards.
- Offered architectural guidance to facilitate integration with SaaS providers.
Experience
Hybrid Integration Patterns for Workday Integration into UBC's Ecosystem Applications
Education
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Southeast University - Nanjing, China
Certifications
Learning Azure DevOps
Azure Administration: Manage Identities
Azure for Architects: Design a Compute Strategy
Azure for Architects: Design a Migration Strategy
Microsoft Azure: Backup and Distrater Recovery
Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
Workday Simple Integrations
Workday
Cloud Architecture: Core Concepts
Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions
Workday Integration System Fundamentals
Workday
Report Writer
Workday
AWS for Architects: Advanced Security
AWS Security Best Practices for Developers
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Oracle Database 9i Administrator – Professional (OCP)
Oracle
Skills
Tools
Ardoq, Visio, Miro, Confluence, Jira, Lucidchart
Languages
Java, C++, UML, SQL, JavaScript
Frameworks
TOGAF, Spring MVC, Bootstrap, Spring Boot, Angular 2, Blueprint
Platforms
Oracle, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
Database Management, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Couchbase
Paradigms
Azure DevOps
Other
Architectural Design, Creative Problem Solving, Architecture, Programming, Integration, Strategic Planning, Implementation, IT Service Management (ITSM), MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Leadership, Workday Report Design, Workday Implementation, Cloud Architecture, Workday, Amazon RDS, Migration, Azure Compute Services, Identity & Access Management (IAM), API Integration
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