Enterprise Architect - (Hybrid)

Central 1 Credit Union; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization in Toronto seeks an Enterprise Architect to enhance their architecture practice. This role requires significant experience in project delivery and the ability to create overarching architectural visions. Key responsibilities include defining technical standards and collaborating across projects. The compensation ranges from $140,000 to $150,000 annually, with benefits emphasizing work-life balance and career development.

Benefits

Work-life flexibility

Hybrid work environment

Generous vacation allotment

Flexible benefits plan

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years as an architect or related experience.
• 5 years in project delivery with major delivery projects.
• Understanding of scalable application design principles.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technical standards and architecture roadmaps.
• Work with project teams to ensure adherence to standards.
• Communicate enterprise objectives with business leaders.

Skills

Architectural vision

Data architecture

Project delivery

Team influence

Innovation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology or related discipline

Job description

Central 1 cooperatively empowers credit unions and other financial institutions to deliver banking choice to Canadians. Central 1 provides critical services at scale to enable a thriving credit union system. We do this by collaborating with our clients, developing strategies, products and services to support the financial well-being of their more than 5 million diverse customers in communities across Canada. For more information, visit www.central1.com.

What we offer:

• Work-life flexibility
• Hybrid workenvironment
• One time allowance to set up your office for remote first employees
• Variable annual incentive plan
• Generous annual vacation allotment
• Top-notch flexible benefits planincluding family building and gender affirmation
• Retirement Plan, matched contributions at 6%
• Access toa learning platform and educational assistancesupport
• Access to a virtual wellness platform
• Career development opportunities
• Wellness Flex Fund to support personal interest and activities
• Day off to volunteer in your community andother paid time off options
• Corporate discounts

*subject to employment agreement

Job Summary:

As the Enterprise Architect, you're working under the direction of Head of Architecture to mature Central 1’s enterprise architecture practice and engage regularly with the business to understand the current business challenges and future business needs.

Enterprise Architects align enterprise / business goals and capabilities with project solutions. Additionally, Enterprise Architects can and should “get their hands dirty” to ensure solutions work in critical production environments .

What you'll be doing:

• Define and maintain comprehensive technical standards and 3–5-year target architecture roadmaps for key technologies (infrastructure, application layers );

• Work with project teams and architects to ensure adherence to standards

• Find and resolve portfolio-wide and project-wide interdependencies and ensure project scheduled accordingly

• Communicate enterprise objectives and transformation roadmaps with infrastructure, applications, solutions, and business leaders

• Integrate strategic guidelines into project implementation

• Review existing business processes and establish metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.

• Work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.

• Participate and contribute to technology selection due diligence processes (RFP, RFI, etc . )

• Research new technology trends and develop position papers

• Identify opportunities and help implement architecture practices that improves C1’s EA maturity

• Facilitate the EA governance processes.

• Manage exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level.
  

What you'll have:

• Minimum of 10+ years as an architect (enterprise, solution, infrastructure) and / or experience with data engineering, data science, software engineering experience, or front-end and back-end software engineering (i.e., experience as a full stack engineer)

• 5 years in project delivery with at least 1-2 major ($5m+) delivery projects

• Ability to design solutions within technical domain

• Ability to create broad architectural vision

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology , Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline

• Certification for relevant software programs in technical domain or master’s degree are strong pluses

• Understanding of data architecture and integration architecture

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around them

• Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace

• Passion for innovation and “can do” attitude

Salary range: $140,000 - $150,000

The salary range represents the job rate determined for the successful candidate who is fully competent in the role. The actual salary will vary depending on market conditions and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training.

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Central 1 is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building an inclusive workforce by creating an environment where everyone feels like they belong and has the opportunity to be successful. We welcome all applicants to join our diverse workforce and we will provide an accessible candidate experience including, but not limited to accommodations to interview sites and alternate formats upon request to our Recruitment team.