THE PROGRAM

The Provincial Human Capital Management System (HCMS) Program will implement Workday software across seven BC health organizations: Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health, Provincial Health Services Authority, Providence Health Care, and Vancouver Coastal Health. The Workday platform will replace disparate existing human resources (HR) and payroll applications with a single, modern, integrated system. Human resource management has emerged as a high priority and is a key action in the province’s Health Human Resources Strategy.

WHAT YOU BRING

Qualifications

• A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline, plus a minimum of seven (7) years’ recent, related experience in a large, complex organization, including but not limited to, systems integration, software / enterprise architecture, project management, systems analysis, application development, and operations or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical architecture role in designing and deploying large scale solutions.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within health care settings. This involves familiarity and understanding Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within Lab LIS and Informatics contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study - BC Human Rights Code, BC Anti-racism Act and how they intersect across the health care system.

Core Competencies

• Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and the broader systemic racism that exists in the colonial health care structure, and has demonstrated initiatives in breaking down barriers and ensuring a safe environment ensuring a sense of belonging to all and informed by Indigenous Cultural Safety.
• Awareness of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (the Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrated technical experience in API technologies, RESTful APIs, SOAP, and other integration protocols in required. Middleware is preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of identity management practices, approaches, and implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with test cycle management and vendor relationship management.
• Strong understanding critical path impacts and adopting ownership for decision making.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and customer-focused, with a passion for delivering high quality solutions that meet client needs and expectations.
• Solid understanding of delivering Architecture services within the Agile methodology.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019)
• As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have: Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (The Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

Job Type: Temporary, Full-Time (2 years)
Wage: $88,990 to $127,923. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan.
Location: 1775 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby BC V5C6E3
Closing date: Aug 25, 2025
Hours of Work: 08:30 to 16:30, Mon - Fri
Requisition # HCMS_ E06286i

• Leads and liaises with partners to understand structures, policies, workflows, requirements and operations.
• Interfaces with and coordinates tasks with internal and external clinical and technical partners. Collaborates with Senior Leadership, Project Managers and team members to develop overall Integration plan, provide estimates and serve as a lead as required, to implement the configuration, integration and implementation efforts.
• Maintains oversight of architectural topics, including high-level design, file transfers, scheduling, security, and authentication.
• Champion integration design consistency by promotion patterns, conventions, tools and alignment to architectural best practices.
• Leads the development of formalized Integration methodologies, including building and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies, and business development documents.
• Contributes to the principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise and develops and implements policies and standards related to Integration architecture.
• Designs and coordinates the implementation of integration strategies and solutions based on clinical and business requirements across diverse platforms and technologies. Communicates the technology options and solutions to Senior Leadership, project team members and external partners.
• Conducts reviews of all scoped integrations, including those owned by BC Health to ensure technical alignment, quality and sustainability. Supports complex integration designs (ie. Studio), provides hands-on guidance to developers, and assists in Proof of Concept efforts for challenging or critical use cases.
• Leads the selection and implementation of middleware, API gateways, and integration tools.
• Researches and analyzes market, technology, and industry trends and standards related to relevant technologies for the purposes of determining potential impact on the design and build and the suitability of different approaches in solving emerging business needs. Provides recommendations on the use and evolution of system architecture.
• Designs and implements Integration architectures in alignment with enterprise wide security policies. Ensures Integration access controls are designed and built in a way that provides appropriate, demonstrable and coordinated security procedures and practices that are compliant with related law, regulation, policy and professional standards. Monitors and troubleshoots integration issues, ensuring high availability and reliability. Provides monitoring, auditing and investigation expertise into security, policy and appropriate use violations.
• Participates in meetings to support timely provision of information related to design decisions, progress, status, issues, tasks, and solutions related to project deliverables.
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
• Performs other duties as required.