Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture

BCtechjobs; Richmond; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Vacation 4 weeks

Benefits package

Leave arrangements

Development opportunities

Job summary

WorkSafeBC is seeking a Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture to lead the enterprise architecture practice and shape the organization’s technology direction. You will align technology strategy with business priorities, guide standards and roadmaps, and lead a team of enterprise architects to deliver measurable value.

You’ll collaborate across business and technology teams, advance governance, and ensure secure, maintainable, interoperable solutions across a predominantly custom-built environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related discipline.
• Eight+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, software architecture, or related field.
• Five+ years of experience leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, or multidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards, capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Experience building or maturing an enterprise architecture practice and leading governance, standards, technical debt, and architectural risk management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate an enterprise technology vision aligned with WorkSafeBC's strategy, operating model, and business needs.
• Assess the technology landscape, business capabilities, priorities, and pain points.
• Identify reusable enterprise patterns and capabilities to improve interoperability, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, reference models, roadmaps, templates, and operating practices.
• Define measures that prioritize architecture initiatives, track progress, and demonstrate business value.
• Translate complex architecture issues into clear recommendations for executive understanding and decisions.
• Lead, organize, coach, recruit, and develop a high-performing team of enterprise architects.
• Build strong partnerships across business and technology teams, ensuring early architecture involvement in strategy and investment decisions.
• Lead architecture governance, including Architecture Review Board, decision rights, exceptions, debt, dependencies, and enterprise risks.
• Guide build, buy, reuse, integration, modernization, and retirement decisions while guarding AI, cloud, Agile, DevOps, automation, and emerging technologies.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business technology management, or a related discipline

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture to lead the development and evolution of WorkSafeBC's enterprise architecture practice and help shape the organization's future technology direction.

In this role, you'll align technology strategy with business priorities, establish a compelling enterprise technology vision, and guide the development of architecture principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps. You'll lead a team of enterprise architects, strengthen architecture governance, and help ensure technology investments deliver measurable organizational value.

As a key leader within the Business Engagement Services Department, you'll build strong partnerships across business and technology teams, provide strategic guidance on complex enterprise decisions, and ensure architecture supports secure, reliable, maintainable, and interoperable solutions.

This is an opportunity to influence how enterprise architecture enables business transformation across a complex, predominantly custom-built technology environment.

How you'll make a difference

You'll help teams across WorkSafeBC solve problems, leverage technology, and plan new ways to service B.C. workers and employers.

Where you'll work

We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.

This role combines time in our offices with flexibility for remote work.

What you'll do

• Develop and communicate an enterprise technology vision aligned with WorkSafeBC's strategy, operating model, and business needs.
• Assess the technology landscape, business capabilities, organizational priorities, and key pain points.
• Identify reusable enterprise patterns and capabilities that improve interoperability, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, reference models, roadmaps, templates, and operating practices.
• Define measures that prioritize architecture initiatives, track progress, and demonstrate business value.
• Translate complex architecture issues into clear recommendations that support executive understanding and decision-making.
• Lead, organize, coach, recruit, and develop a high-performing team of enterprise architects.
• Build strong partnerships across business and technology teams, ensuring early architecture involvement in strategy and investment decisions.
• Lead architecture governance, including the Architecture Review Board, decision rights, exceptions, technical debt, dependencies, and enterprise risks.
• Guide build, buy, reuse, integration, modernization, and retirement decisions while establishing guardrails for AI, cloud, Agile, DevOps, automation, and other emerging technologies.
• Consistently model the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.

Is this a good fit for you?

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Connect organizational priorities to practical enterprise architecture direction.
• Have led enterprise architects or senior technology professionals in complex organizations.
• Can build, mature, and strengthen the credibility of an enterprise architecture practice.
• Understand how to shape custom-built software into secure, reusable, maintainable, and interoperable capabilities.
• Balance long-term technology strategy with immediate business priorities and delivery pressures.
• Build trusted executive relationships and influences decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear business outcomes, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Use architecture governance to enable timely, informed decision-making.
• Lead change initiatives effectively across Agile, product, project, and DevOps environments.
• Apply practical, evidence-based judgment to emerging technologies and demonstrates measurable enterprise architecture value.

Your background and experience

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business technology management, or a related discipline.
• At least eight years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, software architecture, or a related field.
• At least five years of experience leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, or multidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards, capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Experience building or maturing an enterprise architecture practice and leading governance, standards, technical debt, and architectural risk management.
• Experience guiding architecture in complex, custom-built software and modern delivery environments, supported by broad knowledge of applications, integration, data, cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering.
• Strong executive partnership and communication skills, with the ability to resolve competing priorities, guide investment decisions, and demonstrate measurable enterprise value.

We'll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check and successfully meet record clearance.
• Confirm you're legally entitled to work in Canada

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We're honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What's it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It's challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discove r who we are .

Our benefits

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Salary

: $150,000 - $165,000/annually