About the role

Senior Enterprise Architect shaping EDC’s technology strategy and roadmap. Guiding platform alignment and architecture governance for Canada’s trade-finance corporation.

Responsibilities

Engage business and IT stakeholders to develop and evolve the digital strategy, roadmap, and technology target state in alignment with business objectives
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and integrate them into the digital roadmap
Analyze EDC’s technology landscape and provide actionable insights guiding technology-target-state decisions
Assess technical debt risks and balance debt reduction with development of new technology capabilities
Apply business architecture and business capabilities to architecture designs
Guide cross-functional framing of full-stack digital roadmap project execution
Enable CX, application, data, integration, and infrastructure teams to collaborate on outcome-driven architecture designs
Promote and operate within end-to-end architecture governance value streams
Translate business needs into cross-domain architectural solution guidelines
Communicate architectural strategies, roadmaps, and governance to business and IT stakeholders
Develop and maintain influence across key business and IT stakeholders
Coach and mentor practitioners in other architecture disciplines
Support development of architectural principles and standards
Support development of business architecture deliverables, including business capabilities

University degree in a field relevant to enterprise architecture discipline and practice
Minimum of 7 years’ combined experience in enterprise or solution architecture
Expert knowledge and experience developing executable architecture designs
Exceptional ability to influence stakeholders and drive results across cross-functional domains
Ability to think strategically, act tactically, and execute operationally
Ability to conceptualize and articulate architecture visions aligned with enterprise direction
Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics
Familiarity with information management, system development life cycle management, IT service management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
Understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially enterprise-scale frameworks
Knowledge of EA, business, and IT principles and processes
Familiarity with EA tools, graphical modeling approaches, and repository management
Candidates must be able to work legally in Canada at the time of application, preferably Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents
Candidates must meet government security screening requirements
Bilingual English and French is an asset