Solutions Architect

at  WCLC

Does the idea of collaborating with others to help make technology decisions and solution roadmaps light up the area of your brain that loves solving problems? Do you want to support new projects or refresh existing systems? Are you excited by exploring new technologies and helping define and manage strategies for how they’re used? Do you want to lead the adoption of technology to enable the business and move our organization forward?
Then we want to talk to you.
WCLC has flexibility for this position to be located in Alberta, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. The successful will need to travel to one of our head office locations on an as needed basis.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-secondary education in a computer-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in IT and at least 5 years’ experience with enterprise-level solutions.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, working independently and within a team environment.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of software development and lifecycles.
• Experience with implementation of COTS applications.
• Experience with common IT architectural frameworks (TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, SABSA, etc.).
• Experience with RFI/RFP and TCO.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure services and solutions is an asset.
• Experience in business analysis and requirements gathering is an asset.
• Experience with Cloud solutions and agile or DevSecOps practices is an asset.
• Knowledge of the Lottery and Gaming industry is also an asset.

WHO WE ARE

You may not have heard of us before, but you’ve almost certainly heard of the products we help bring to players throughout the Prairie Provinces and the North every day; lottery games like LOTTO 6/49, SPORT SELECT, and dozens of instant scratch tickets.
WCLC is the non-profit organization authorized to manage, conduct, and operate lotteries – at retail and online – and other gaming-related activities for the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We work closely with our provincial partners to bring a first-rate lottery experience to our players and meet their changing needs with new technology and tools.
We know it’s our people that make this possible, which is why we invest in building talented, adaptable, and accountable teams. We’d love to talk to you about how you fit into that.

The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) is looking to add a Solution Architect to our IT Architecture department.

We’re looking for someone who can…

• Design and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining corporate solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on non-functional engineering requirements and security controls.
• Develop and document solution designs including but not limited to business, infrastructure, application, security, data and service architectures.
• Prepare options and analysis recommendations for senior IT and Business stakeholders.
• Prepare and collaborate with team members on the transition to operations documentation.
• Monitor industry trends to ensure solutions fit with regulatory and industry directions.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to others on all aspects of solution architectures and IT technologies.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solution’s life-cycle stages.
• Developing/supporting/evaluating RFI/RFP and Total Cost of ownership (TCO) to support new business cases.
• Provide input to the continuous improvement of Architecture processes and practices.