Job Description

Architecture Owner - 00048S

Posting Date: Apr 5, 2023, 12:41:22 PM
Primary Location: Ontario-Ottawa
Job Type: Permanent
Schedule: Full-time


Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business. When you join our team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You\xe2\x80\x99ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you\xe2\x80\x99ll know that you\xe2\x80\x99re making an impact every day \xe2\x80\x93 for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with. Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world. #LI-Hybrid Team & Job Overview We have an opportunity for a results-focused individual with strong interpersonal, influencing, and strategic thinking skills to enable the transition of EDC business objectives & related requirements into industry standard, best practice enterprise aligned technology solutions. This role will report into the Director of Architecture owners. In addition to the ability to quickly understand business context, business applications and required business outcomes, the Architecture Owner\xe2\x80\x99s technical expertise is broad and covers the data, application and technology architecture domains with experience in many areas including: Cloud migration, enterprise information modeling and architecture, data quality management, metadata management, master data management, data integration, enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, data visualization, operational reporting and ETL frameworks, Integration, API, Portals, Content Management, Web Content Management, ERPs, Workflow, Digital Design, Customer/User Experience, Security and Single Sign-On. architects will be a key stakeholder for the realization of EDC\xe2\x80\x99s Digital enabled Business Strategies. The Architect Owner\'s role is to design solutions to realize given business outcomes in the context provided by the Enterprise Architecture team. In addition, this role provides support and oversight to ensure the solution is implemented. In order to do this, the Architecture Owner will require the ability to operate in and across multiple business & technology areas including Line of Business, Finance, Legal, ATIP, Procurement, Security, Infrastructure, Partners, Vendor and Delivery Teams. The role includes identifying gaps between current state technology architecture and what is required to execute on EDC Digital enabled Business Strategies and ensuring solutions are planned to fill these gaps. The Architecture Owner may supervise and indirect staff on the breadth of solution architecture and strategic planning disciplines and may mentor business and technical teams in application architecture disciplines. The role functions in a fluid environment of changing business priorities, requirements and improvements to stay current with the technology. Responsibilities

• Interact with a variety of stakeholders to understand business needs
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (Product owner, business line, developers, analysts, enterprise architect, etc.) and guide technology choices
• Oversee the implementation and operationalization of end-to-end solutions
• Diagnose problem situations and help solve complex problems
• Promote the adoption of the EDC architecture and cybersecurity principles in solution design and implementation
• Understand the impact of technology on business processes, applications and data in order to provide this information to various audiences executives levels, squads
• Design the overall technological architecture of the product
• Partners with the Tech Lead to guide the implementation of software engineering practices for higher code quality; Develops architectural standards, principles, practices, and architectural templates
• Problem solves architecture questions with the team to ensure consistent and sound solutioning
• Identifies and removes technical impediments by being hands on and engaging in coding to help the team to develop the products
• Ensure technical considerations are communicated, and implementation conforms with design, long-term objectives, and enterprise architecture by coaching software engineers and by building reusable and scalable components
• Work with stakeholders and team members to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack
• Support product and delivery teams to ensure designed solutions are developed and deployed to meet objectives
• Constantly looking for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo
• Ensures consistency in architecture and engineering approaches between their team and others by frequently engaging the Enterprise Architect

Screening Criteria

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of experience delivering IT solutions or as an Architect (as an Architecture Owner, Solutions Architect, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of the concepts, technology, and solutions related to a modern ecosystem: domain architecture, microservices, APIs, streaming, Cloud technologies, real-time dataflows, orchestration, Cloud, DevOps, etc.
• Strong communication skills with ability align organization on complex technical decisions
• Experience in Agile Delivery, with specific Solution Architect/Architecture Owner experience
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to resolve problems and make decisions
• Deep technical knowledge; architecture and development patterns and practices; how to realize non-functional qualities in a design
• Experience managing technical priorities within the backlog

Asset

• Cloud Certification (Azure preferred)
• Application of the Well-Architected Framework
• Experience in DevSecOps practices
• Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)

Salary Range

• $91,700 - $137,600, plus performance-based incentive

How to apply

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Application deadline on www.edc.ca/careers : Apr 21, 2023, 10:59:00 PM
EDC is committed to employment equity and actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities. If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation.
Candidates must meet the requisite government security screening requirements.