Team Lead, Solution Architecture

quadreal; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

QuadReal Property Group seeks a Team Lead of Solution Architecture to guide two Solution Architects and shape enterprise architectures aligned with QuadReal standards. You will partner with IT and business stakeholders to drive design choices, governance and value realization from concept to delivery.

The role emphasizes mentoring, cloud-focused architecture, and clear communication of risks, impacts, and roadmaps to leadership across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture teams and delivering enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge of architectural frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent) and cloud technologies.
• Proven ability to partner with IT and business stakeholders to guide design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of two Solution Architects, defining growth plans and coaching.
• Guides architecture strategies from concept through value realization.
• Ensures alignment with QuadReal standards and governance processes.
• Reviews architecture deliverables and communicates risk and impact to stakeholders.
• Creates clear architectural visuals using Visio or Whimsical.
• Supports M&A and OpCo integrations with consolidation plans.
• Drives innovation and adoption of AI within IT teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Solution architecture

Cloud technologies

TOGAF

Stakeholder management

Architectural frameworks

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Visio

Whimsical

Job description

About QuadReal Property Group

QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, development and operating company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its assets under management are $98.5 billion. From its foundation in Canada as a full-service real estate operating company, QuadReal has expanded its capabilities globally for investments in equity and debt in both the public and private markets. QuadReal invests directly through operating platforms in which it holds an ownership interest and via programmatic partnerships.

QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves. Now and for generations to come.

QuadReal: Excellence lives here.
www.quadreal.com

Role Description:

The Team Lead, Solution Architecture leads a team of Solution Architects within the Enterprise Solutions team, providing hands‑on architectural leadership and people management to ensure QuadReal's technology solutions are strategically aligned, value-driven, and built on modern, secure, and well-governed foundations. This role combines the technical depth of solution architecture with the coaching, planning, and delivery accountability of a people leader. The Team Lead partners closely with IT and, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to guide technology and design decisions from concept through to value realization, while mentoring architects to grow their technical and professional capabilities. The Team Lead brings a strong working knowledge of Architectural frameworks and best practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent and modern cloud technologies. They maintain a clear view of the current cloud landscape and emerging architecture patterns, applying this knowledge to shape future‑state designs and to guide the team's technical direction. The role reports to the Director, Enterprise Solutions and has two Solution Architects as direct reports. It is suited to a motivated, outcome-oriented leader with a "can do" attitude who is curious, takes a high degree of personal ownership, and demonstrates proactive problem-solving and adaptability in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Leads, mentors, and coaches a team of two Solution Architects, guiding the development of tailored growth plans that address both technical and soft-skill development.
• Supports succession planning within the team and contributes to a succession plan for own role.
• Ensures the team has clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, with clear performance expectations documented for each team member.
• Creates and fosters a customer‑centric culture across all team interactions.
• Supports the sourcing and allocation of appropriately skilled resources for successful project delivery, including extended delivery vendors and partners where applicable.
• Guides the team in delivering a variety of architecture services with high quality to stakeholders, including future‑state architecture designs, product assessments, technical summaries, and roadmaps.
• Applies Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, consistent, and governed appropriately.
• Reviews and quality‑assures architecture deliverables produced by the team, providing constructive feedback
• Performs and oversees technical analysis of vendor offerings, conveying assessments to stakeholders in business terms with risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensures architecture impacts, risks, and dependencies are identified and communicated, and that governance processes are followed (e.g. Architecture Review Board), and architecture recommendations are implemented.
• Creates and promotes clear, engaging visual representations of architectures and solutions using tools such as Visio, Whimsical, or similar.
• Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape and modern architecture patterns, particularly in application, data/integration, and security domains.
• Own the IT architecture workstream for M&A and OpCo integrations by assessing acquired entities' application landscapes, defining consolidation and sequencing plans, and driving technology stack alignment to QuadReal standards
• Acts as a trusted advisor and key point of contact for business stakeholders on architecture.
• Represents architecture to the business, promoting the vision, services, and capabilities.
• Cultivates positive, high‑trust working relationships across business and IT functions, balancing multiple stakeholder expectations in a dynamic, time‑sensitive environment.
• Excels at explaining complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Champions QuadReal's innovation culture, including the adoption of AI, within the IT team.
• Leads and participates in innovation pilot projects, supporting idea generation and helping transform business stakeholder concepts into practical, value‑realizing solution