Senior Director, Enterprise Architect and Technology Solutions
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Based in Western Canada for over 110 years, McElhanney offers innovative and practical engineering, surveying, mapping, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services. As a 100% employee-owned and operated firm, with over 1,400 staff members in 33 locations, we are proud to offer qualified staff with shareholding options in our company. At McElhanney, we work in teams to build strong connections with our staff, clients, and local communities. Our employees enjoy working here because of our varied projects, high levels of autonomy, opportunities for career development, excellent total compensation and benefits package, and collaborating with a team of great professionals.
The Opportunity:
McElhanney is a professional services consulting firm that mainly delivers multi-disciplinary engineering and land surveying services in Alberta and British Columbia and currently has 30+ physical offices in these two provinces.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Sr. Director of Enterprise Architect and Technology Solutions to define, guide and oversee our strategic digital and technology roadmap. This strategic role is responsible for establishing enterprise architecture-as-a-service to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions to enable McElhanney to provide digitally enabled services and continue to identify opportunities to provide digital products and services.
Note: This role is both a strategic and technical role with an expanded scope that includes Enterprise Architecture accountabilities as well as the responsibilities to broker relationships across the innovation.
Our ideal candidate is based in Vancouver, BC, and remote work is considered.
Key Responsibilities:
- Digital and Technology Strategy: Develop, maintain and establish the technology strategy and roadmap that provides a unified view across the architecture domains (application, infrastructure, security, integration, and data) to ensure alignment across the business architecture to ensure interoperability. Identify and assess emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on the organization.
- Business (Operations) and IT Alignment: Ensure technology solutions (enterprise, SaaS, and others) effectively support business objectives while being compliant with ML's digital and technology principles. Work closely with various business stakeholders e.g., P\&L business units, corporate departments, and technology practice groups.
- Innovation to support Digitally Enabled Solutions: Oversee the technical development of digital solutions and service offerings as proof-of-concepts where commercial products are not viable.
- Architecture Design and Development: Define and lead the EA governance in the development of architectural blueprints across the different architecture domains: business, software, hardware, data, security, integration, and other technology dimensions to provide a cohesive overview of our technology roadmap.
- Governance and Compliance: Lead the EA governance and work closely with various domain and business stakeholders to establish, enforce and ensure compliance of architecture principles, policies and procedures to industry standards and regulations. Conduct regular reviews and audits of the enterprise architecture to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
- Technology Evaluation and Selection: Work closely with business/operational partners to review business requirements to support the translation and assessment of digital and technology solutions for fit-for-purpose, costs, compliance, security, and interoperability. Identify and propose opportunities for new technologies to improve the organization and/or ways to optimize existing systems.
- Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with business and operational stakeholders to translate business needs to identify the most optimal technology solution. Provide guidance to both IT and business stakeholders on architecture best practices and standards. Translate complex technical information to a broad audience that will include both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong visual communicator.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
- One or more professional certifications in the field of Enterprise Architecture: TOGAF9 (The Open Group Architecture Framework), Certified Information System Security System (CISSP), Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA), Zachman, AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- Certification and/or experience with IT Practice Frameworks like: ITIL Master, COBIT.
- Certification and/or experience with Enterprise Architecture tools like: Archimate, Orbus, LEANIX, Sparx.
- Experience and/or certification in Microsoft Dynamics and Azure Solutions Architect will be extremely valuable.
- Experience in Software Development Life-Cycle Management.
- 15 years' direct work experience as an Enterprise Architect.
- Competent and proficient understanding of ERP platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 (FinOps, Sales, Project Ops and Microsoft Azure), Microsoft DevOps, and other SDLC platforms.
- PMP and/or ITIL Certification(s).
What Can We Offer?
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000 per annum. McElhanney offers fair compensation commensurate with the individual's education, experience, skills, and professional qualifications. The posted base salary/wage range is representative of the required level of qualifications and experience for the position as noted in the job posting. The salary offered will be based on the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate.
- Vibrant social atmosphere.
- Profit sharing through an annual performance bonus program.
- Ability to become a shareholder in an employee-owned company.
- Mentoring and technical guidance.
- Diverse career opportunities.
- Continuous support for your professional development and growth including access to courses on our Learning Hub, paid professional development, mentorship program, and encouragement to join internal committees such as, Young Professional, Women at McElhanney, Equity Diversity and Inclusion, and technical service groups.
- Flexible work hours to accommodate your busy lifestyle.
- Maternity leave top-up and parental leave top-up.
- Great benefits, including extended health and dental coverage, healthcare spending account, and RRSP matching.
- Employee and Family assistance program, which offers 24/7 support for all employees and their families either online or over the phone.
- A work culture that is characterized by respect and inclusion for all.
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
At McElhanney, our unwavering commitment lies in cultivating a culture that aligns with our core values and fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate the collective achievements of a team rich in expertise, experiences, and perspectives, and welcome applications from individuals of diverse ethnicities, religions, backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, aboriginal statuses, various age groups, and those with disabilities. Requests for accommodations can be made at any stage of the selection process. If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of the requirements outlined. We're interested in getting to know you and explore the unique contributions you can bring to McElhanney!
If this is the opportunity for you, apply now or visit www.mcelhanney.com/careers to learn more. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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