Team Lead, Solution Architecture (Direct Reports)

Responsibilities:

• Leads, mentors, and coaches a team of two Solution Architects, guiding the development of tailored growth plans that address both technical and soft-skill development.
• Supports succession planning within the team and contributes to a succession plan for own role.
• Ensures the team has clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, with clear performance expectations documented for each team member.
• Creates and fosters a customer-centric culture across all team interactions.
• Supports the sourcing and allocation of appropriately skilled resources for successful project delivery, including extended delivery vendors and partners where applicable.
• Guides the team in delivering a variety of architecture services with high quality to stakeholders, including future-state architecture designs, product assessments, technical summaries, and roadmaps.
• Applies Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, consistent, and governed appropriately.
• Reviews and quality-assures architecture deliverables produced by the team, providing constructive feedback
• Performs and oversees technical analysis of vendor offerings, conveying assessments to stakeholders in business terms with risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensures architecture impacts, risks, and dependencies are identified and communicated, and that governance processes are followed (e.g. Architecture Review Board), and architecture recommendations are implemented.
• Creates and promotes clear, engaging visual representations of architectures and solutions using tools such as Visio, Whimsical, or similar.
• Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape and modern architecture patterns, particularly in application, data/integration, and security domains.
• Own the IT architecture workstream for M&A and OpCo integrations by assessing acquired entities' application landscapes, defining consolidation and sequencing plans, and driving technology stack alignment to QuadReal standards
• Acts as a trusted advisor and key point of contact for business stakeholders on architecture.
• Represents architecture to the business, promoting the vision, services, and capabilities.
• Cultivates positive, high-trust working relationships across business and IT functions, balancing multiple stakeholder expectations in a dynamic, time-sensitive environment.
• Excels at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Champions QuadReal's innovation culture, including the adoption of AI, within the IT team.
• Leads and participates in innovation pilot projects, supporting idea generation and helping transform business stakeholder concepts into practical, value-realizing solutions.
• Pursues professional development opportunities to maintain knowledge of prevalent and emerging technologies, and shares this knowledge with the team.
• Experience and Qualifications:
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading and coaching small technical teams.
• Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in architecture
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent), and demonstrated ability to apply them in a business context.
• Understanding of design and integration practices in Cloud / XaaS-intensive environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent work experience.
• Understanding of real estate and related business processes across multiple asset classes (office, industrial, retail, residential, and development) is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to convey complex ideas effectively through storytelling and engaging presentations tailored to varied audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, high-trust relationships with business leaders, IT colleagues, and partners.
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with excellent facilitation and collaboration abilities at all levels of an organization.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to balance multiple stakeholder expectations.
• The expected annualized base salary range for this role is $130,000-$160,000.
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• Based on the position, QuadReal offers a competitive total rewards package in addition to the base pay, which may include a performance-based incentive plan, comprehensive health & dental benefits, pension plan, and paid time off.
• The actual salary offered will take into consideration a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the individual’s skill, experience, education and training, the market compensation of the role, and the consideration to internal equity.
• We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Even if your skills don’t align 100% with the listed qualifications or salary range, we encourage you to apply – you may be a great fit for this role or others in our community. Applicants may also be considered for alternative positions within the organization where their qualifications and experience align more closely with available opportunities.
• We use artificial intelligence (AI) technology — alongside human review — to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. Our recruitment team remains involved in all decisions.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada as the company does not provide work permit sponsorship for this role.
• Note to Recruiters: QuadReal does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to QuadReal, directly or indirectly, will be considered QuadReal property. QuadReal will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for engaged services to submit resumes.

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