Sr Enterprise Architect

ICBC; North Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 116,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ICBC is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead the development of IT strategies and ensure alignment with business goals. This role involves delivering reference architectures and technology standards while leveraging cloud practices. The successful candidate will engage with stakeholders and provide expert guidance to IT teams, contributing to ICBC's strategic migration to the cloud.

Benefits

Defined benefit pension plan

Comprehensive health and dental coverage

Employer-paid life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Travel insurance

Sick leave plan

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Expert in cloud services like AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IT strategies and advisory services for ICBC's IT systems.
• Drive technology modernization and cloud migration initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Big Picture Thinking

Cloud

Education

Cloud certification

TOGAF

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Tools

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

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Hours of Work: 7.5 hours per day - 5 day week (M-F)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid 8

Salary Range: $116,300.00 - $165,000.00 Annually

Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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We look forward to hearing from you!

At ICBC, it's our job to make sure the car insurance system works for all British Columbians, today and in the future. If you want to make the most of your skills and expertise while growing your career, we want you. A career at ICBC is an opportunity to be part of a talented, diverse, and inclusive team that is driven to serve its customers and community. You can expect a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment. If you are reliable and dependable, contact us today to be part of our talented and diverse team as we work together to create an insurance system we can all be proud of.

We have an exciting opportunity for a leader to play a key role in defining, realizing, and leveraging ICBC's future technology vision. As Senior Enterprise Architect, you will build on securing ICBC's existing business system investments to ensure we provide efficient, customer-driven, affordable, and future-focused solutions. In this role, you will deliver IT strategies, IT strategic planning, and IT advisory services to all of IT, including creating reference architectures, technology standards, and ensuring solutions are well-architected to support ICBC's hybrid cloud environment. This role is part of the Enterprise Architecture team that has accountability for oversight and guidance for all ICBC IT systems that serve our lines of business.

Position Highlights:

You have proven business acumen, strategic thinking, and learning agility skills. Competencies that will set you apart as the successful candidate are:

1. Big Picture Thinking - Drive consistency at enterprise level and ensure solutions align with ICBC strategies and standards.
2. Cloud - Leveraging leading cloud practices and services to drive the ICBC journey to cloud.
3. Serve as a technical expert and trusted advisor to partners in IT and the business.
4. Stakeholder Engagement - Skilled at identifying and engaging with impacted parties.
5. Leadership - Ability to own, direct, and influence change.

Position Requirements:

To make an immediate contribution, you will draw on your experience working with medium to large-sized organizations to understand the business direction and develop and implement architectural practices and technologies to support ICBC's strategic migration to cloud. You bring demonstrated experience:

• Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Absorbing large amounts of information, analyzing and synthesizing the key ideas and recommendations, and effectively applying your understanding to drive technology and architectural decisions;
• Work as a trusted advisor to IT teams and help shape technology modernization and other migration to cloud initiatives.
• Deliver Reference Architecture and technology standards for enterprise-wide adoption.
• Cloud certification and a deep understanding and hands-on experience in AWS and Azure native services would strongly support your effectiveness in this role, together with application of the Well Architected Framework (WAF) in your past delivery.

Technical Skills:

• One or more of the following certifications: The Open Group's TOGAF, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience with the following Regulations, Standards, and Frameworks:

o Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

o General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

o ISO 27001/2

o NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

o Data privacy requirements (FOIPPA) and provincial and federal regulations

• Expert in Visio, PowerPoint, and technical documentation.

Position Information:

• ICBC provides comprehensive and flexible benefit coverage to all eligible employees, including a defined benefit pension plan.
• Three options of health and dental coverage, with two options fully paid by ICBC and access to Flex credits.
• 100% employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability, and travel insurance.
• Sick leave plan – 100% of pay for a maximum of 8 weeks plus 85% of your pay for a subsequent period of up to 9 weeks.
• Additional optional insurance coverages.
• Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position.

About us:

At ICBC, it’s our job to make sure the car insurance system works for all British Columbians, today and in the future. If you want to make the most of your skills and expertise while growing your career, we want you. A career at ICBC is an opportunity to be part of a talented, diverse, and inclusive team that is driven to serve its customers and community. You can expect a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment. If you are reliable and dependable, contact us today to be part of our talented and diverse team as we work together to create an insurance system we can all be proud of.

• Resident – you will work at your primary in-office headquarters on all scheduled work days.
• Hybrid 8 – you will work a minimum of 8 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically 2 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia.
• Hybrid 10 – you will work a minimum of 10 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically one week in/one week out or up to 3 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia.
• Mobile – you will work a significant amount of time in the field, in addition to working from an office and optionally working remotely within British Columbia.