Senior Manager, IT Architecture

Toronto Community Housing; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 143,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation and paid time off

OMERS pension plan

Health and dental benefits

Employee assistance program

Parental leave top up

Tuition reimbursement

Fitness membership discount

Job summary

Toronto Community Housing is seeking a Senior Manager of IT Architecture to lead a diverse team of architecture resources and drive strategic IT initiatives. You will set standards, translate requirements into solutions, and guide the architecture review process.

You will develop enterprise roadmaps, collaborate with security and data teams, and mentor staff to enable posture improvement and effective delivery across the organization.

Qualifications

• University degree in computer science, engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad and deep architecture experience.
• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of architecture for business, application, integration, security, information, technology, implementation, and migration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional architecture team including permanent, temporary, contract, and vendor resources.
• Develop new IT standards and processes based on industry best practices.
• Ensure enterprise architecture and guidelines are maintained across solutions.
• Provide IT roadmaps and target state architecture visions.
• Mentor the IT team and deliver training as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

University degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

TOGAF

Archimate

ITIL Foundation

Job description

About Toronto Community Housing Corporation

Toronto Community Housing Corporation (“TCHC”) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. TCHC provides homes to over 41,000 low and moderate-income households in 88 of Toronto's neighbourhoods, with 93,000 tenants from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical ability, religion, ethnicity and race. We are an essential part of the City of Toronto's fabric and social system. Our over 2,000 employees work to achieve our vision of quality homes in vibrant communities where people are proud to live and work.

Vacancy Type

Full-time Permanent

Salary/Hourly Range

$142,987 – $157,285

Work Details (Days/Hours)

Monday – Friday 36.25 hours per week

Hybrid Eligible

Yes

Affiliation

Non-Union: Management/Exempt

Division and Department

ITS - Information and Technology Services

Location

729 Petrolia Road, Toronto

Number Of Vacancies

1

Existing/New Job

Existing

Grade

09

Vacancy Status

Existing Vacancy

Candidate List Or Eligibility List

Candidate List

What We Offer

• Ability to participate in inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities;
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;
• Four (4) paid personal days;
• Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching;
• Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date;
• Employee and family assistance program;
• Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary);
• Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year.
• Fitness membership discount;
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.

Make a difference

The Senior Manager of IT Architecture is responsible for leading a team of permanent, temporary, contract, and vendor-provided architecture resources. This role involves providing team management, architecture delivery, strategy, and business engagement. The Senior Manager will establish standards and technologies for digital solutions, translate client requirements into valuable solutions, and facilitate the architecture review board process.

What You’ll Do

People Management

• Manage staff performance, employee engagement, workload balancing, and coordination of efforts among staff specialties.
• Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to team members.
• Provide architecture and solution leadership, mentoring, and expertise to the team and other delivery teams.

Architecture Delivery

• Develop new IT standards and processes based on industry best practices.
• Ensure enterprise application architecture and associated standards, policies, and guidelines are maintained.
• Collaborate extensively with infrastructure and data architects, IT security and risk teams, and division owners to align enterprise solutions with business needs and strategy.

Strategy & Innovation

• Provide thought leadership on the development of IT roadmaps for specific business capabilities.
• Develop the vision for a target state IT architecture.
• Propose and implement industry best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Research and recommend new solutions, applications, or versions best suited to support the business.

Services Enablement

• Understand key client needs and provide solutions with compelling value propositions that align with the organization's capabilities.
• Identify and drive opportunities for business process improvements and redesign.
• Prepare high-level estimates for projects.
• Work as a technical mentor to deliver necessary training and guidance to the entire IT team.

Project Management

• Act as Project Manager for key architecture projects with diverse team members and stakeholders.
• Prepare briefing notes and status updates/reports for Corporate Affairs, Audit Committee, ELT, and other stakeholders.
• Collect information, evaluate client requirements, develop budgets and implementation plans, and optimize SLAs and costs.

What You’ll Need

• University degree in computer science, engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad and deep architecture experience.
• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of architecture for business, application, integration, security, information, technology, implementation, and migration.
• Extensive experience with multiple computing platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages, and communication protocols.
• TOGAF, Archimate, or similar certification and training are assets; ITIL Foundation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal, consensus-building, and negotiation skills.
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables and specifications for RFPs.
• Awareness of emerging IT trends and directions.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals.

We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve included in the job postings below, we encourage you to consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key!

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the cultural mosaic of our great city and the communities we serve. We recognize the value that comes from different viewpoints, unique experiences and diverse perspectives of our employees, who bring fresh, new ideas to our business. Diversity plays a key role in our ability to deliver on our mission to provide clean, safe, well-maintained, affordable homes for tenants.

TCHC is committed to diversity and inclusion within its community and encourages applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and others who can help us provide vibrant communities and make our city a great place to live. In an effort to ensure access to information for people with disabilities, we have noticed that some screen readers do not function properly with our job portal. If you are a person with a disability and are experiencing issues with our job portal and would like access to our job postings in an alternative format, please email your request to our People and Culture Division at [e-mail].

Accessibility for applicants

Toronto Community Housing is committed to equity in employment. Our goal is a diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace that reflects the communities we serve.

We will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities at all stages of the hiring process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and Toronto Community Housing’s Accessibility Policy.

If you are a person with a disability and need the job posting in an alternative format or any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, please email your request to our People & Culture department at [e-mail] or call our accessible accommodations line at (416) 981 - 4119. Please refer to the job requisition number when you contact us.

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