Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture

Role overview

Workplace

• The role combines time in WorkSafeBC offices with flexibility for remote work.

Key responsibilities

• Develop an enterprise technology vision aligned with strategy, operating model, and business needs; assess the landscape and organizational priorities.
• Create reusable architecture patterns, principles, standards, reference models, roadmaps, templates, and operating practices.
• Define measures for architecture initiatives and communicate recommendations, progress, and business value to executives.
• Lead and develop enterprise architects; build partnerships and ensure architecture is involved early in strategy and investment decisions.
• Lead architecture governance covering review processes, decision rights, exceptions, technical debt, dependencies, and enterprise risks.
• Guide build, buy, reuse, integration, modernization, and retirement decisions; set guardrails for AI, cloud, Agile, DevOps, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Model responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward-thinking organizational behaviours.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business technology management, or a related discipline; equivalent education and experience will be considered.
• At least eight years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, software architecture, or a related field.
• At least five years leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, or multidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience developing technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards, capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Experience maturing architecture practices and leading governance, standards, technical debt, and architectural risk management.
• Experience guiding architecture in complex custom-built software and modern delivery environments; broad knowledge of applications, integration, data, cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering.
• Strong executive partnership and communication skills, including resolving competing priorities, guiding investment decisions, and demonstrating measurable value.

Compensation and benefits

• Annual salary is CAD 150,000–165,000.
• Benefits include a defined-benefit pension, four weeks of first-year vacation, health and dental options, additional days off, optional leave, and development opportunities.

Offer conditions

• An offer requires consent to and successful clearance of a criminal record check, and confirmation of legal entitlement to work in Canada.
• Assessments may begin before the application closing date.

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