Principal Enterprise Architect

OMERS; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global pension plan as a Principal Enterprise Architect. This pivotal role involves driving the design and implementation of technology architecture, collaborating across various teams to ensure alignment with business goals. Embrace a culture that values learning, teamwork, and community impact while leveraging modern cloud technologies and strategic guidance.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work schedule

Opportunities for professional growth

Inclusive and supportive workplace culture

Employee Resource Groups

Qualifications

• 5 years as an Enterprise Architect with strategy design experience.
• 10 years in technical solution design and socialization.
• Experience modernizing complex legacy technology ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Build consensus with diverse colleagues and customers.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts.
• Recommend future-state technology architecture.

Skills

Technical Expertise

Communication

Collaboration

Strategy Development

Technical Guidance

Education

University degree or post-graduate in engineering, mathematics, computer science

Tools

Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI)

Security certifications (CISSP, CISP)

Architecture certifications (ITIL, TOGAF, Zachman)

Job description

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Choose a workplace that empowers your impact. Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.

We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

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Are you an expert in proposing solutions to complex technological problems? Do you enjoy socializing your fact-based opinion based on your experience and understanding? If so, you could be a successful Principal Enterprise Architect at OMERS, joining the Enterprise Architecture team within Data & Technology (D&T), reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture. This role is pivotal in driving the design and implementation of the firm's overall technical architecture across the organization. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams across OMERS and Oxford Properties to recommend right-sized strategy for solutions, applications, platforms, and technologies.

Here Is Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• Your Work Matters: In the rapidly evolving world of technology, you will assist in alignment of technology and business goals, driving efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.
• A Place to Grow: We’re big on learning—whether it’s mastering the latest tools, modernizing our ecosystem, gaining certifications, or learning from a supportive team, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow your skills and career.
• Collaborative and Open: We believe great ideas can come from anyone, and we encourage open conversations and teamwork to create the best solutions.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: You’ll work with modern cloud technologies, frameworks, and best practices, giving you the chance to stay ahead in a fast-changing industry.
• A Culture that Cares: At OMERS, we put people first. From our employees to the clients we serve, we’re all about building meaningful relationships and making a positive impact.

As a member of this team, your responsibilities will include:

• Federated Collaboration: Build consensus with and compromise between colleagues and customers, who sometimes have diverse goals, to deliver advice that balances our technology and line of business strategies.
• Communication: Clearly communicate complex technical concepts in verbal, written (email, chat, word documents), and presentation formats to resources with a variety of technical expertise.
• Technical Architecture Strategy: Recommend future-state technology architecture by understanding current state, considering industry trends, peer organization(s) direction, OMERS technology strategy, and multiple business strategies.
• Technical Guidance: Participate in development of technical standards, principles, patterns, architectural building blocks, blueprints, and/or best practices for OMERS’ technology ecosystems.
• Technology Evaluation: Provide analysis (e.g. assessment of options), high-level design and contribute/lead POCs evolving the technology ecosystem(s) across the organization.
• Governance Participation: Contribute, facilitate, and sometimes present at governance ceremonies such as Architecture Review Board or similar.
• Technical Expertise: Occasionally take on a hands-on role as a technical expert, collaborating with engineering, architecture, or development teams to resolve issues, provide guidance, and craft high-level solutions.

You may wonder: what are specific recent examples of team deliverables? Workload Placement Strategy, Data Platform Strategy, Opinion on APIM, Technical Capability Mapping Evolution, Technical Standards Creation, Creation of Platform Reference Architecture, etc.

Experience Requirements

• 5 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect with an emphasis on designing and presenting strategies and roadmaps for enterprise consumption.
• 10 years of experience in explaining, designing, and socializing technical solutions, opinions, roadmap and other recommendations.
• Experience in modernization of complex legacy technology ecosystems with mixed components from Cloud, SaaS and data center infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of market trends in the technology domain.

To help with success in this role, nice to haves are:

• University degree or post-graduate in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or other quantitative disciplines, or equivalent training, education, and experience.
• Experience in the Pension, Asset Management, or Financial Services industries is a plus.

Relevant certifications include but are not limited to:

• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI), architect, engineer, data architecture, etc.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CISP or similar.
• Architecture certifications like ITIL, TOGAF or Zachman.

We believe that time in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, and our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated through our Employee Resource Groups, Purpose@Work committee, and employee recognition programs.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

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