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Canada Life • Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 11h ago

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Permanent Full Time

Our Workplace Solutions Technology team is looking to hire a Solutions Architect to support the Workplace Solution Sponsor Billing and Finance business unit.

Reporting to the Director Technology Delivery Solutions, the Solutions Architect is a leadership role that partners with others to form a leadership team to enable and support delivery.

The Solutions Architect will collaborate with their portfolio \& technology teams as well as business leaders, sponsors, technology leadership, and stakeholders to develop strategies and roadmaps. They will work to define and maintain architecture artifacts for supporting project delivery and application support and lead technical vision and direction for solutions, ensuring consistency with overall enterprise and portfolio architecture that may at times include hands-on development. The Solutions Architect will also have the opportunity to effect change within the organization by incorporating new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.

What you will do:

Defines and facilitates a solution architecture that leverages enterprise capabilities and efficient usage of process, technology, data and people to align these capabilities
Follow the guidelines and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and their processes
Consults with business partners and delivery stakeholders
Leads the definition of and maintains the technical solution architecture(s)
Owns the architectural decisions for the team and leads technical vision and direction for the solution
Focal point for significant infrastructure and development issues, ensuring quality designs
Proactively identifies opportunities where solutions can enhance organizational efficiency
Actively coaches the team to solve complex problems
Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends
Acts as trusted technology advisor/advocate for business units
Leads and supports the development of technology roadmaps and proposals to achieve business plans.
Fosters a high-performance culture for staff in the architecture team and influences overall team culture
Works closely with all team members to create solutions that accommodate future architectural changes and designs, including application to capability mapping, architecture sketches and detail solution design
Identify critical driving forces of process, data, people and technology at the highest levels
Ability to look beyond traditional business concepts and drill to the heart of a given concept

What you will bring:

Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering degree or equivalent experience
Minimum 10 years of related experience in technology environments
Minimum 5 years of proven experience working as an architect related to business functional and solution delivery
Experience in portfolio, program and project delivery
Experience with providing architectural support to large scale technology transformation initiatives
Proven business acumen demonstrated through expert understanding of an organization, functions, practices, trends and competition
Financial acumen demonstrated through development of business cases
Ability to simplify complex concepts; values simplicity
Ability to build and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions
Ability to effectively communicate high-level concepts and solutions with technology and business teams and stakeholders.
Advanced level of analysis of the big picture while maintaining a level of detail appropriate to the context of a variety of situations.
Understands the framework (i.e.structure, people, processes, and technology) that supports an organization's strategy and can successfully leverage it
Ability to challenge business and technical constraints; understanding how to impact and influence
Self-starter with the ability to comfortably operate in ambiguity

Assets:

Experience with application modernization
Experience in the insurance industry
Experience with developing and documenting solution architecture addressing business problems in insurance sector
Experience with virtualization, service architectures, and cloud computing
Architecture experience in data solutions (relational and NoSQL databases), z/OS mainframe environment, ServiceNow, Office 365, Cloud Solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP), Microservice/microapp architectural approach, API technology, Event Driven Architecture (Kafka), Java Spring Boot, Front end web frameworks (e.g. React)
Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, Archimate, 4 1 View Model, C4), tools (LeanIX, Archi) and architecture practices and principles in Business, Enterprise, Information (data), Application, Technology, Platform, Infrastructure and Security architecture disciplines

$63,500 - $117,400

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You're part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You'll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you'll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It's our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that's trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Canada Life servesthe financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we're one of Canada's leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employeehas the opportunity toreach their potential.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Canada Life policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact ***************@canadalife.com.

Canada Lifewould like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.

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