Enterprise Architect

at  Equitable CA

At Equitable, we realize that your work life is not just about performing a job; it’s about being part of a workplace that helps you grow and reach your full potential. Within our friendly and collaborative work environment, we recognize that the key to our growth and success is a dedicated, motivated and client-responsive staff. Join Equitable today.
Position Title: Enterprise Architect
Reports To: Head of Enterprise Platforms & Architecture
Department: IT Platforms
Term: Permanent Full-Time
Work Arrangements: This is a hybrid role. You will work in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two (2) assigned, consecutive days every other week, plus a fifth (5th) assigned day per month. You are welcome to work from the office more than the minimum requirement and there may be some roles that are required to work in our office more than the minimum requirement.
The Opportunity: Equitable continues to invest deeply in digital capabilities and services. Our Enterprise Architecture team is central to this investment, and we are looking to evolve our maturity and outcomes even further. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) program will focus holistically on business, information, solution and technical architectures across the enterprise to enable current and future-state business capabilities.
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who will focus holistically on business, information, solution, and technical architectures across the enterprise to enable current and future-state business capabilities.
The Enterprise Architect will lead the development of architecture roadmaps and execute strategies and processes to align with business needs. This individual is responsible for defining the EA processes and leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT processes.
Proactively work with IT and business leaders in an innovative, collaborative, supportive and consultative manner to influence the organization’s solution and technical architectures across all IT domains.
This role requires a proven technical leader with a high degree of collaboration to drive cultural change and raise the maturity levels of design and architecture.
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• Focus on delivering business strategy working to identify and deliver both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Build traceability technical solutions that deliver on the business requirements and overall Business success
• Establish, own and evolve an enterprise technology strategy and roadmap that enables portfolios to support current and future business capabilities based on partnership with executive leadership and understanding the strategic goals across Equitable
• Drive design, engineering, reuse, application of patterns, and create architecture direction that comprise the solutions in the portfolios
• Foster adaptive design, and engineering practices, and drive programs and teams to rally around a shared technical vision based on continuous feedback
• Identify and research relevant technologies, perform proof of concepts / prototypes, and recommend the applications of such technologies for future product architecture to meet business strategies
• Lead and participate in technology product evaluations to assess fit
• Define and document efficient and transparent architectural principles and guidelines
• Create, own and maintain technology roadmap template, publish standards and guidelines for architecture best practices. Working with SME architects to review the process and cadence. Advise on specific technology roadmap to ensure alignment to the overall enterprise architecture roadmap
• Collaborate and further enhance domain technology roadmaps in consultation with business leadership teams and domain architects
• Partner with other IT leaders to ensure chosen technologies are updated or replaced, as needed; understand and balance the complete lifecycle of technical choices
• Lead and facilitate the design and implementation of repeatable technical solutions and processes related to technology architecture
• Lead Enterprise Technology Governance and architecture Review processes and committees (e.g. Technology Governance Committee, ARB processes) to guide EA decision making
• Lead the architecture Community of Expertise (COE)
• Understand, advocate and support the enterprise’s IT strategies
• Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context
• Lead analysis of the current technology architecture to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture
• Promote EA processes, outcomes and results to the organization, including the enterprise’s IT and business leaders
• Oversee the evaluation and selection of EA standards
• Consult with application development project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs
• Consult with infrastructure development project teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs
• Provide input into organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture
• Lead the development and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture
• Assess and communicate the value of the enterprise architecture.
• Review new and existing program/project architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.
• Review IT procurement plans for compliance with IT standards and architectural plans
• Document exceptions to architectural standards
• Ensure that project documentation captures significant architectural decisions
• Ensure that architectural governance is a fair, consistent and transparent process
• Identify architectural risks and propose alternatives and solutions