Director, Portfolio Architecture to provide technology leadership and innovation focused on the Business Automation portfolio.

Director, Portfolio Architecture to provide technology leadership and innovation focused on the Business Automation portfolio.

Location: Downtown Toronto

Responsibilities:

• Accountable to ensure high quality delivery of leading-edge solutions that meet time and cost requirements that align with business unit (BU) and enterprise architecture principles and design standards.
• Proactively identify areas (i.e. trendspotting) and opportunities to use technology to enhance customer experience and/or organizational efficiency
• Research and recommend opportunities to leverage technology and keep up with the industry to support the strategy.
• Directs technology research and sponsors line of business (LOB) initiatives (early-stage development/prototype) in support of BU strategy.
• Support development of business strategies by producing Business Automation Platforms capability model, technology roadmaps, architectural standards and patterns to achieve business plans.
• Provides leadership in managing IT risk (e.g.: security, disaster recovery, technology solution quality, etc.) and control requirements.
• Drive a high-performance culture for practitioner Solution Architects and influence this culture within IT
• Ensure leaders, employees and vendors work together to drive performance and that high expectations are achieved within the values of the organization.

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments with a preference for significant complexity, highly regulated, and/or financial services.
• 5+ progressive leadership experience related to both projects and teams in Business Automation domain
• Expertise in one or more of the following domains: Intelligent Document Processing (including Optical Character Recognition), Robotic Process Automation, Business Process Management (Workflow Management, Case Management), Decision Management, Content Management
• IBM CP4BA,UiPath, Appian, Hyperscience, Microsoft Power Platform, ServiceNow, Pega
• API, ETL, RPA, Workflow Automation, Case Management, Business Rules Engine, Low Code