Senior Director Enterprise Architecture & Ontology

National Bank of Canada; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job description

A career as a Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Ontology within the Enterprise Architecture team at National Bank means acting as the Senior Director responsible for Enterprise Architecture and Integrated Enterprise Knowledge. It means contributing to the definition and evolution of a strategic practice that provides a better understanding of the relationships between business capabilities, processes, data, applications, interfaces, technologies, and controls. This role allows you to make a positive impact on our organization through your expertise in enterprise architecture, semantic modelling, and organizational transformation supported by artificial intelligence and automation.

Your job

• Shape the evolution of the enterprise architecture practice by defining directions, methods, standards, and priorities that support decision-making and organizational transformation.
• Define and evolve an enterprise ontology that connects business capabilities, processes, data, applications, interfaces, technology components, and controls through clear semantics and governed relationships.
• Establish modelling principles, governance mechanisms, and accountabilities that enable different teams to contribute to a shared, reliable, and reusable understanding of the enterprise.
• Leverage artificial intelligence and automation to discover and reconcile relationships across LeanIX, the CMDB, and other authoritative sources without creating a new monolithic repository, while ensuring information quality, governance, and traceability.
• Transform the enterprise ontology into products, views, integrations, and use cases that support strategic planning, impact analysis, technology decisions, and transformation initiatives.
• Represent the practice in architecture and delivery forums, engage stakeholders, and measure adoption, coverage, and value delivered to adjust priorities based on the organization’s needs.

Your team

The Enterprise Architecture practice brings together specialists who work collaboratively to develop an integrated understanding of the organization and support its transformation. You work closely with architecture, business, data, technology, and platform teams.

Within the Enterprise Architecture sector, you report to the Bank’s Chief Architect. You contribute to transforming knowledge that is currently distributed across multiple teams, repositories, and tools into a coherent, accessible, and actionable view that supports decision-making.

We aim to provide you with maximum flexibility to enhance your quality of life. This includes a hybrid work environment as well as a flexible and adaptable schedule.

The Bank values continuous development and internal mobility. Our personalized training programs, based on learning through experience, help you master your role and develop new areas of expertise. Resources such as the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, as well as coaching and mentoring support, are available to you at all times.

Prerequisites

• University degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field and at least ten years of relevant experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
• In-depth expertise in enterprise ontology, semantic modelling, or knowledge graphs, as well as modelling relationships between business and technology assets.
• Strong command of enterprise architecture repositories and authoritative sources, including LeanIX and CMDBs.
• Expertise in information governance, data quality, traceability, and the reconciliation of data from multiple sources.
• Hands-on experience with artificial intelligence and automation applied to relationship discovery, knowledge quality improvement, and the delivery of enterprise capabilities.
• Strong understanding of integration architectures, application programming interfaces (APIs), event-driven architectures, cloud computing, and digital ecosystems.

Languages: French, English

Reason to require this language: you will need to discuss frequently with our service providers or partners who speak a language other than French.

Required skills: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Critical Thinking, Cross-functional Collaboration, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Influencing, Information Governance, Innovation Management, Knowledge Graph, Micro Focus UCMDB, Model Making, Ontologies, Semantics, Strategic Vision, Strategy Execution

Your benefits

• Health and wellness program, including many options
• Flexible group insurance
• Generous pension plan
• Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Employee and family assistance program
• Preferential banking services
• Involvement in community initiatives
• Telemedicine service
• Virtual sleep clinic

We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We value employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication are encouraged.

Making a bold move in a people-first environment

We’re a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusion is central to our commitments. We aim, wherever possible, to provide a barrier-free and accessible environment to all employees.

We strive to provide accessibility measures throughout the recruitment process within the limits of our available resources. If you require accommodations, feel free to let us know during our initial conversations. We welcome all candidates!