SR. Enterprise Architect to lead technology transformation and optimization initiatives for an insurance client.

SR. Enterprise Architect to lead technology transformation and optimization initiatives for an insurance client.

Location: Downtown Toronto

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the overall architecture and IT strategy for our Global Corporate Technology line of business
• Ensure products and projects delivered align with the architecture direction and balance budget, time, and delivery expectations
• Apply business & technical acumen, knowledge, and experience to drive new ways of thinking about issues to resolvehighly complex technical and business challenges
• Drive IT eco-system opportunities and maintain awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, and presents opportunities to senior business leaders
• Recommend standards, best practices, and advocate for architectures that other lines of business in the organization will align to
• Integrate vendor supplier software into the Global Corporate Canada Life eco-system
• Lead/Participate in the Architecture Review Councils and raise items as required to collaborate on architecturally significant decisions
• Lead a team of Portfolio Architects who are each aligned to Global Corporate Technology business units, managing ,and directing work volumes, and providing governance and oversight
• Lead all employee lifecycle events for all direct reports, including recruitment activities, selection, onboarding, and performance and professional management
• Build and maintain a culture that focuses on consistently delivering customer value
• Demonstrate and provide leadership in managing IT risk and ensure compliance across all products and projects
• Design, implement and enforce governance strategies and tools for use across the enterprise

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of multi-disciplinary architecture experience in a large, complex organization
• Experience with application modernization techniques and execution
• Experience with modern architecture patterns and cloud computing

Nice to Haves:

Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks, architecture practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines