Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture

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

Benefits offered by this job

Defined benefit pension

4 weeks vacation

Benefits package with health care and_

Development opportunities

Job summary

WorkSafeBC is seeking a Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture to lead the development and evolution of the organization’s enterprise architecture practice and technology direction. You will align technology strategy with business priorities, establish architecture principles, and guide roadmaps while leading a team of enterprise architects.

The role spans collaboration across the Business Engagement Services department with both office presence and remote work options.

Qualifications

• Eight years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, software architecture, or a 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Education

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

Job description

Salary is determined based on the candidate's qualifications and market conditions for the role.

Posting period

From 10/26/2026 to 11/16/2026

Overview

We’re looking for a Manager IT, Enterprise Architectureto lead the development and evolution of WorkSafeBC’s enterprise architecturepractice and help shape the organization’s future technology direction.

In this role, you’ll align technology strategy withbusiness priorities, establish a compelling enterprise technology vision, andguide the development of architecture principles, standards, patterns, androadmaps. You’ll lead a team of enterprise architects, strengthen architecturegovernance, and help ensure technology investments deliver measurableorganizational value.

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

This is an opportunity to influence how enterprisearchitecture enables business transformation across a complex, predominantlycustom-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 andemployers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how wecollaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.

This role combines time inour offices with flexibility for remote work.

What you'll do

• Develop and communicate an enterprise technology vision aligned withWorkSafeBC’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 improveinteroperability, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, referencemodels, roadmaps, templates, and operating practices.
• Define measures that prioritize architecture initiatives, trackprogress, and demonstrate business value.
• Translate complex architecture issues into clear recommendationsthat support executive understanding and decision-making.
• Lead, organize, coach, recruit, and develop a high-performing teamof enterprise architects.
• Build strong partnerships across business and technology teams,ensuring early architecture involvement in strategy and investmentdecisions.
• Lead architecture governance, including the Architecture ReviewBoard, decision rights, exceptions, technical debt, dependencies, andenterprise 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 theappropriate leveloforganizationalbehavioursexpected ofallWorkSafeBCemployees: responsive, respectful, fair,collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.

Is this a good fit for you?

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Connect organizationalpriorities to practical enterprise architecture direction.
• Have led enterprisearchitects or senior technology professionals in complex organizations.
• Can build, mature, andstrengthen the credibility of an enterprise architecture practice.
• Understand how to shapecustom-built software into secure, reusable, maintainable, and interoperablecapabilities.
• Balance long-termtechnology strategy with immediate business priorities and delivery pressures.
• Build trusted executiverelationships and influences decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Translate complextechnical issues into clear business outcomes, risks, trade-offs, andrecommendations.
• Use architecturegovernance to enable timely, informed decision-making.
• Lead change initiativeseffectively across Agile, product, project, and DevOps environments.
• Apply practical,evidence-based judgment to emerging technologies and demonstrates measurableenterprise architecture value.

Your background and experience

• A bachelor’s degree incomputer science, information technology, engineering, business technologymanagement, or a related discipline.
• At least eight years ofprogressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy,software architecture, or a related field.
• At least five years ofexperience leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, ormultidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience developingenterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards,capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Experience building ormaturing an enterprise architecture practice and leading governance, standards,technical debt, and architectural risk management.
• Experience guidingarchitecture in complex, custom-built software and modern deliveryenvironments, supported by broad knowledge of applications, integration, data,cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering.
• Strong executivepartnership and communication skills, with the ability to resolve competingpriorities, guide investment decisions, and demonstrate measurable enterprisevalue.

We’ll consider an equivalent combination of educationand experience.

Important to know

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

• Consent to a criminal recordcheck 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’rehonouredto 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.

As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

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

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