Job Description

At Equitable, we realize that your work life is not just about performing a job; it\'s about being part of a workplace that helps you grow and reach your full potential. Within our friendly and collaborative work environment, we recognize that the key to our growth and success is a dedicated, motivated and client-responsive staff. Join Equitable today.

\xe2\x80\x8bPosition Title: Senior Technology Architect, Digital
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\xe2\x80\x8bTerm:\xe2\x80\x8b \xe2\x80\x8bPermanent Full Time

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Work Arrangements: This is a hybrid role. You will work in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two (2) assigned, consecutive days every other week, plus a fifth (5th) assigned day per month. You are welcome to work from the office more than the minimum requirement and there may be some roles that are required to work in our office more than the minimum requirement.

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The Opportunity: Equitable is growing! We are looking for a Technology Architect to join our Voluntary Benefits initiative.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Technology Architect to join Equitable\'s Group Insurance Technology team. The role will help to push forward Group Insurance\'s application architecture vision by creating guidance and mechanisms that enable growth and coordinates our business strategy. You\'ll work closely with business, product, and technology partners to translate objectives into fit for purpose solutions.

As a mutual-owned company, our focus is completely on our clients. With today\'s clients, we know to be nimble and responsive to our clients\' needs to help us reach our growth targets. We are on a journey to continue offering the best service in the industry for our clients and advisors and bring on new experiences to help improve our client experience. As a team we\'ll discover the right solutions and be on a constant journey of learning while bringing our skills and ideas together.

The right individual will be a proactive, self-directed that enjoys and thrives when connecting people and technology to solve problems and identify opportunities. You will analyze, model, and develop high-level architecture plans that enable the generation of communications, as well as the orchestration and delivery through multiple digital channels, while tracking state of communication and triggering next steps. If you have a passion and skill for long-term end-to-end thinking balanced with crafting architecture increments that enable value for customers now, this opportunity is for you!

The Technology Architect will collaborate with the other architects, DevOps leads and project team members to define target state solutions and architecture. We are an organization that values diverse thinking, rewards both behaviors and delivery, and focuses on growth and continuous improvement. This role is a unique opportunity to join a team that is at the beginning of a multi-year growth plan whose work will have direct impact on company direction, our customers, and our industry.

The Senior Technology Architect will work with the lead and assist in end-to-end solutioning for products that will interact with our clients and advisors.

Now is an exciting time to join one of the Waterloo Area\xe2\x80\x99s and Southwestern Ontario\xe2\x80\x99s Top Employers for 2024!

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What you will be doing:

• Help to identify, research, prototype, and recommend relevant technologies for future product architecture to meet business strategies for large scale/complex portfolio of IT and business platforms with a focus on the generation of communications, as well as the orchestration and delivery through multiple digital channels, while tracking state of communication and triggering next steps.
• You will align with technology governance, enterprise architecture and review processes. You will help define and roll out team standards and provide governance that will ensure successful designs and team success.
• Support and participate in technology product evaluations.
• Define and document efficient and transparent architectural principles and guidelines.
• Assist in the Development and maintain technology roadmaps in consultation with the Business and IT leadership teams.
• Lead and facilitate the design and implementation of repeatable technical solutions and processes related to technology architecture.
• Consult with product development and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure product solutions meet security requirements.
• Design program/project architecture following compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.
• Ensure that project documentation captures significant architectural decisions.
• Mentor developers through processes such as peer reviews

What you will bring:

• Strong skills in trouble shooting, software development or system engineering.
• Ability to define solutions based on client journeys and/or experiences.
• Knowledge leveraging and integrating with vendor platforms, including holding vendors to a technical standard.
• Cloud Native Architecture and development skills with preference to the following:

• App Services (App Plans)
• Container Apps
• Cosmos DB or other No SQL databases
• API and microservice development
• Application Insights
• Azure App Configuration Service
• Key Vault
• Azure Storage
• APIM
• Containerization

• Understanding of common Architecture patterns (e.g. Microservices, SOA, Event sourcing, etc.).
• Hands on experience with data and application integration patterns (Domain-Driven, APIs, messaging, streaming, sync/async).
• Previous experience developing PWA, SPA, and Responsive web applications, along with IdPs, .Net/C#, React
• Database knowledge including
• MS SQL Server environments including tooling such as SQL Profiler, Query Store and tuning.
• NoSQL databases with preference to Cosmos DB
• DevOps experience including branching and release patterns, source control, CI/CD processes and release pipelines.

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you:

• A healthy work-life balance with employee wellness top of mind
• Annual bonus program, annual vacation allowance, and company-paid benefits program
• An additional paid volunteer day each year so you can spend time giving back to the community
• Immediate enrollment in the company\xe2\x80\x99s pension program with employer matching
• Employee resource groups that support an inclusive work environment
• Tuition support and specialized program assistance
• An onsite, full-service cafeteria with a variety of daily options
• Discounts on company products and services, and access to exclusive employee perks
• Regular EQ Together events focused on company togetherness and collaboration

As part of the recruitment/offer process you will be required to:

• Provide two professional references (minimum one supervisor and above)
• Undergo a criminal background check

To learn more about Equitable, we encourage you to explore our organization.

At Equitable, we are committed to providing equal access to employment opportunities across our organization. Please contact our HR team at careers@equitable.ca if you would like to receive our job postings in an alternative format or require an accommodation with the application process.

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