Senior Enterprise Architect

Job Posting Title
Senior Enterprise Architect

Job Category
Systems Engineering

Language Requirements
English / Anglais

Flexible Work Agreement Type
Hybrid / Hybride

Posting End Date
2025-01-21

Job Grade
PIPSC-4

Pay Range
$123,506 - $155,150

Job Summary
The Senior Enterprise Architect plays a key role in shaping the strategic technology direction of NAV CANADA by aligning enterprise architecture with business objectives and goals. This individual is responsible for analyzing, designing, and documenting both the current and future state of enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with industry standards, emerging trends, and technological innovations.

The Senior Enterprise Architect collaborates with business and technology stakeholders to define architectural strategies, standards, patterns, and blueprints, providing guidance for strategic initiatives and complex projects. By leveraging a deep understanding of the NAV CANADA's business drivers and the broader industry landscape, the Senior Enterprise Architect ensures that technology solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with the organization's long-term vision.

In addition, the Senior Enterprise Architect actively evaluates emerging technologies and market trends to identify opportunities for innovation and potential disruptions. This role requires excellent communication skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to balance technical expertise with business acumen to drive impactful outcomes across the organization.

Job Description

What NAV CANADA offers you:

• Challenging, team-oriented work environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Diverse and inclusive workforce

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization's business goals and long-term vision.
• Document and analyze the current architecture while defining the desired future state to ensure a clear roadmap for technological evolution and alignment with the business vision.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, principles, and guidelines to ensure consistency, reliability, security, observability, and scalability across solutions.
• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand objectives, challenges, and requirements, ensuring architecture aligns with both technical and business needs.
• Provide architectural oversight and guidance for large-scale, strategic projects to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.
• Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact and recommending innovative solutions to drive business value.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reusable patterns, and roadmaps to guide project execution and operational strategies.
• Ensure architectural designs comply with relevant regulations, security standards, and organizational policies, mitigating risks effectively.
• Foster a culture of learning by mentoring teams, promoting architectural standards, best practices, and sharing architectural knowledge across the organization.
• Continuously assess the effectiveness of architectural strategies, measuring their impact on business outcomes, and refining approaches for improved performance.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in the field of Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science, Information Technology Management or Software Engineering or an acceptable combination of education, experience, and training.

Experience:

• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience with proven track record of working across multiple technology IT and business/industry domains, including architecture design and deployment, system integration and lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations.
• A minimum of three (3) years of direct experience designing and implementing enterprise architecture frameworks, creating standards, developing best practices, patterns, and defining technology roadmaps.
• Hands-on experience establishing and enforcing architectural standards, governance processes, and technology policies.

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of NAV CANADA's industry, including market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory requirements, with the ability to adapt solutions accordingly.
• Expertise in designing scalable, secure, and high-performance IT/OT architectures, including cloud-based, on-premises, and hybrid cloud with thorough knowledge of Agile and Scale Agile framework.
• Knowledge designing scalable systems, integrating APIs, middleware, and managing distributed architectures.
• In depth knowledge across multiple architectural domains (infrastructure, network, security, application, data, business).
• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of enterprise-level systems, architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), and emerging technologies (e.g., cloud, AI, IoT).

Abilities

• Ability to define long-term technology strategies that align with business goals and industry trends.
• Ability to work cross functionally in multiple architectural domains to evaluate complex problems and orchestrate efficient, scalable solutions that align with business goals and objectives.
• Ability to lead architectural decisions, influence stakeholders, and drive consensus on technical strategies and priorities.
• Ability to stay ahead of technology trends, adapt to evolving business needs, and innovate to maintain a competitive edge.
• Ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring technology investments drive measurable business value.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment, supporting client architectural needs and leading collaboration efforts, sharing new ideas, and supporting the achievement of collective team goals.
• Proficiency in creating architectural standards, diagrams, roadmaps, and patterns to guide implementation teams effectively.

Personal Suitability

• Clearly communicates orally and in writing with the ability to present complex technical information with the appropriate level of detail to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain effective and diplomatic working relationships with internal and external colleagues, experts, and managers at various organizational levels. Develops positive interpersonal relationships through respect for others, fairness, and tact.
• Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced environment, solving unique and challenging architectural problems, and developing innovative solutions.
• Resilience and ability to adapt to changing priorities, technologies and environments and adjust as new information emerges.
• Highly motivated and results oriented. Proactive in identifying opportunities and addressing challenges.
• Creative and innovative with the ability to propose and explore novel solutions.

Working conditions:

• Hybrid (3 days in office per week) - This position is based at the Ottawa TSC but may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement.
• Travel may be required on occasion.

NAV CANADA is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. If you do not believe that you match every job requirement listed on this job posting, we still encourage you to apply. NAV CANADA encourages a culture of learning and growth, and recognizes that although some technical skills are mandatory, many others can be taught.

Our Company strives to create an inclusive and barrier-free selection process and work environment. If you require accommodations during this competition process, please ensure that you inform the interview coordinator or hiring manager of any accommodation measures you may require. NAV CANADA will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.

The successful candidate must meet the security requirement of the position and be legally able to work in Canada.

We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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