Job Description

At Algonquin-Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Purpose

• Lead creation and maintenance of IT technology roadmaps through collaboration with Line of Business, Enterprise Business Solutions, IT, and Security teams.
• Document and maintain business capabilities for the enterprise
• Document and maintain technology strategies and standards related to specific utility business domains
• Provide architecture governance of specific utility business domains investments and projects.
• Collaborate with utility Line of Business (LOB) to identify their technology needs and innovation opportunities.
• Create Architectures/Designs which meet business requirements and strategies, and follow enterprise standards, as requested by Business/IT projects (Solution Architecture).

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Accountabilities

• Build and maintain architecture artifacts representing the current state landscape for specific business domains, across business and technology.
• Build and maintain architecture artifacts representing the target state landscape for specific business domains, across business and technology.
• Maintain Business Capability Model for capabilities of the enterprise and the technology used to fulfill them
• Build and maintain Technology roadmaps for specific business domains
• Develop close working relationships with Line of Business and understanding of business challenges and opportunities
• Identify innovation opportunities where technology can add business value to specific business domains.
• Gather and document business and technology requirements related to specific business domains.
• Work with technology SMEs, industry partners and business leads to Create Architectures/Designs which meet business requirements and strategies, and follow enterprise standards, as requested by Business/IT projects (Solution Architecture)
• Review Designs to ensure they align with Architectures and follow enterprise standards.
• Participate in Architecture governance - present and provide review at Architecture review board and project scoping meetings
• Manage 1-5 Enterprise/business architects

Education and Experience

• University - Bachelor Degree or equivalent
• 10 Years of enterprise architecture experience is a requirement
• Demonstrated experience of developing roadmaps, developing standards, and architecture governance.
• Expert knowledge of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or equivalent framework, certifications preferred.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools and techniques
• Strategic thinking and business communication - ability to decompose and communicate complex topics with non-technical audiences
• Ability to drive progress from poorly defined problem to create consensus on requirements and best solution to meet those requirements.
• Experience working in the utility sector and with utility applications strongly preferred
• Strong background in Utility systems such as SAP, Kubra, SEW, ESRI GIS
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good interpersonal and interviewing skills.
• Experience with team management.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve problems and issues in a collaborative environment
• Team leadership - ability to take role of strategic advisor, guide, mentor, or manager of a team depending on circumstances

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization-it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It\'s where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we\'ll make an impact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

Our Guiding Principles

• Customer Centric
• Integrity
• Entrepreneurial
• Teamwork
• Owner mindset
• Outcome focused
• Continuous learning

What we offer

Share purchase/match plan

A defined contribution savings plan

Leadership Development Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

Group Benefit Plan

Variety of Health & Wellness programs

Discount and Perks program

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person\'s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.