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45182 - Toronto - Regular - Ongoing
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Manager, Enterprise Architecture Governance
Job Function: The Hydro One Enterprise Architecture team is looking for a dynamic individual to lead our Enterprise Architecture Governance group. The mandate of this group is to provide effective architectural governance around principles, standards, and our enterprise repository. This group also leads our planning and modernization programs. The Hydro One IT Architecture vision is to maintain a healthy non redundant landscape at the lowest possible cost that meets the needs of the business to get their tasks done as efficiently as possible. Our vision is simple and clear and sets a real challenge for the governance team.
Position Summary:

As the accountable leader you will have a small team under your direction that will be supported by our lead architect, technical architect and of Digital Centers of Excellence (COE) management and PODS. Other supporting members are the enterprise architects form our OT and business domains. You will have the following scope:
Governance

• Maintaining the architecture process for standards, policy, models, compliance, and reporting.
• Maintaining architecture contents such as standards, best practices, reference, guidelines, etc.
• Effective communications to all practitioners across the enterprise.
• Maintaining the enterprise repository through alignment of roles within the organization.
• Supporting the community of practice (COP) for Solution Architects.
• Maintaining all relevant architecture related documents such as decisions.
• Facilitating Architecture Review Board (ARB) business as required, documenting the decisions, and updating all relevant materials.

Portfolio Planning

• Supporting the quarterly and yearly planning cycles.
• Ensuring the EA repository reflects all planned and inflight landscape changes and impacted technologies.
• Identifying investments required to maintain the landscape currency.
• Identifying planned investment conflicts and dependencies.
• Performing analysis and reporting on value realization.

Modernization

• Ensuring that our enterprise repository has all the necessary data to understand the value being delivered to our customers.
• Analyzing our landscape and finding opportunities using investment decision frameworks such as Gartner’s TIME.
• Developing roadmaps for investment that align with our various strategies such as Cloud and new or emerging technologies.
• Communicating and gaining consensus from stakeholders.
• Measuring, reporting, and reflecting on the results to adjust the program as needed.

General Accountabilities:

• Assist the Director, Enterprise Architecture, in the work planning, resource planning, setting department vision and strategy.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture Portfolio governance team to achieve the over-all objectives while collaborating with Hydro One lines of business to address their business and service requirements.
• Provide direction and input to the strategic business planning process.

Specific Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain the Vision, Mission and Objectives of the Architecture Governance team that aligns with the mandate,
• Develop the strategies and roadmaps, socialize and gain consensus,
• Create and adapt the operating model and roles for the Governance team,
• Create and maintain the services catalogue for the Governance team,
• Be the evangelist for the Governance team promoting the business value, quality and velocity (VQV) of delivering solutions,
• Define, adapt, measure and report Key Performance Indicators (KPI),
• Develop the backlog, resourcing, and sourcing strategies,
• Maintain a working knowledge of industry trends and best practices,
• Working in close conjunction with other Hydro One Enterprise Architects, identify new technologies and perform the necessary assessments,
• Develop a strategy to drive innovation and support Proof of Concept (POC’s) trials with other business leaders,
• Resolve staffing and budget constraints,
• Ensure that staff have clear career paths and education roadmaps,
• Develop appropriate escalation and remediation frameworks,
• Provide general oversight of day to day operations, and
• Provide other duties as required.

Managerial Accountabilities:

• Manage and motivate direct reports, other staff, and contractors to deliver high-quality services to achieve capitalization rates within budget and schedule.
• Translate and communicate Hydro One IT goals, objectives, and strategies to direct reports, other staff, and contractors in the context of the team to ensure optimization roadmaps and other initiatives achieve desired outcomes.
• Cultivate a work environment for direct reports, other staff, and contractors that enables the appropriate behaviors to achieve high productivity, engagement, and collaboration.
• Be accountable for the output of direct reports (e.g., set expectations, priorities, and context ensure compliance with required legal and regulatory requirements and Hydro One and business unit policies and procedures; conduct succession planning, performance reviews and provide direction on problem areas; support career development; provide effective recommendations concerning promotions, transfers, pay, disciplinary action of staff within the department per collective agreements, etc.).
• Resolve technical, business and personnel issues; and escalate unresolved issues in a timely manner to supervisor for advice, instruction, or direction.
• Perform other managerial duties as required.

Leadership and Communications

• Provide leadership and strategic direction relating to Governance and improvement opportunities. The position will work with senior management and Hydro One Lines of Business to identify corrective actions and identify areas for improvement.
• Provide strategic direction in collaboration with other departments, internal and external stakeholders in the execution of COE activities.
• Manage external Consultants and contract Service Providers.
• Collaborate and provide a leadership role in vendor user groups and develop relationships with other utilities to improve upon our utilization of the power system applications and assets and to keep abreast of industry trends and practices.
• Communicate at executive level to link opportunities with the enterprise's strategic goals. Work collaboratively with other architecture managers in execution of Governance activities and identify opportunities for improvement, monitor and enforce compliance with corporate policies and standards throughout Hydro One, make recommendations to senior management and oversee the implementation of the improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to staff engaged in the development and implementation of complex projects and processes to develop and maintain the network analysis applications used for the real-time operation and monitoring.
• Plan, schedule and assign the work with instructions, provide advice and guidance, and check the work to maintain quality, accuracy, and productivity. Select an optimum course of action and make recommendations to supervisor where any highly unusual operating expense or amount of staff is involved, and alternative solutions are available. Identify and administer budget for the section, including cost control.
  

Other Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for worker safety, Hydro One asset integrity, customer security and power system reliability.
• Represent Hydro One on committees and task forces of external authorities (e.g. IESO, NPCC, NERC) in order to influence in favor of Hydro One’s interests, the setting of various standards and requirements related to Transmission control facilities.
• Negotiate with and influence Suppliers to align their business priorities, development directions and support practices to meet the present needs of Hydro One align with Hydro One’s future requirements
• Provide strategic direction in collaboration with other areas of IT and Lines of Business in the execution of Governance activities.
• Conduct service and performance reviews, carry out Contract Management and monitor compliance for one or more of services received from an external service provider
• Participate in the definition of strategic satisfaction measures for Company scorecards, performance contracts, SLAs, business planning or risk management; arrange for data collection required to monitor and report on measures
• Perform Invoice/Charges Review

Selection Criteria
Basic Qualifications:

• BA or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• At least 10 years of experience in IT
• At least 5 years of experience in an architecture role in one or more disciplines such as enterprise, data, integration, technical or solution
• Demonstration of prior Experience managing IT services and teams

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in a previous utility leveraging SAP ERP
• Ability to relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs
• Ability to regularly learn and adopt new technology
• Good understanding and usage of various architecture tools
• Well versed in the understanding of agile delivery methodologies and practical experience
• Good understanding on the use and value of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Good understanding of API-Led Integration
• Well versed in data and analytics landscape
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills,
• Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and work with diverse project teams

Demonstrated Management Skills:

• Relevant experience in the ITIL framework, COBIT, TOGAF and other IT standards of best practices
• Experience in financial management and control
• Strong communication skills in Service Management Processes to business
• Ability to assess enterprise risk with proper recommendation in remediation
• Ability to persuade, convince, influence behavior
• Ability to lead and work in a multi-team environment and drive completion of deliverables
• Information seeking – ability to acquire information relevant to the achievement of valued goals
• Strategic business thinking - ability to apply technical knowledge and experience to making management decisions for achieving business objectives
• Team leadership – ability to take a role as leader of a team or other group

At Hydro One we understand that the success and strength of our business rests with our people. When we develop their skills, we are investing in both their success and ours. To secure the best talent, we seek to create a workforce that reflects the diverse populations of the communities where we live and work and to create a culture based on safety, innovation and inclusiveness.
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Deadline: August 29, 2022
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