Technical Platform Owner

2 weeks ago

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Equitable Life of Canada Full time

At Equitable Life of Canada, 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 customer-responsive staff.

Join Equitable Life today.

Reports To:
AVP, Individual Insurance IT

Department:
Individual Insurance IT

Term:
Permanent Full-Time

Work Arrangements:

We are currently working remotely, and we will be moving to a hybrid model when our office renovation is complete (approximately September 2023), coming into the office a minimum of 2 days per week, every other week on designated days.


The Opportunity:

Equitable Life of Canada is looking to fill the full-time position of a Technology Platform Owner - Digital Properties for Individual Insurance and reports to the AVP, Technology.

You will play a pivotal role in the Technology Strategy and will organize, lead and develop digital capability and platforms centered on building a digitally enabled, future-ready insurance company.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Technology Architect to join Equitable Individual Insurance Technology team. The Technology Platform Owner (TPO) role will own and steward a technology platform.

Lead and collaborate with multiple business and IT teams and leaders, the role will manage the direction and processes of multiple development teams to execute tactical and strategic initiatives to support business products or value streams and its owned technology platform.

The TPO-Digital Properties, will work in collaboration with the business to define the experience to provide core capabilities and delight clients and advisors that own an Equitable policy or are insured by us.

The TPO-Digital Properties is accountable for managing multiple IT delivery teams, providing an engaging working environment, building out the technical roadmap, researching new opportunities and working on the strategic modernization of the platform.

As a mutual-owned company, our focus is completely on our clients.

With today's clients, we know to be nimble and responsive to our clients' needs to help us reach our growth targets.

Through our adoption of agile values and principles, we are on a journey to continue offering the best service in the industry, as recommended by advisors, and bring on new experiences to help improve the financial health and security of our clients.

As a team we'll discover the right solutions and be on a constant journey of learning while bringing our skills, experience and ideas together.


We are embarking on a new phase of growth at Equitable Life of Canada with a renewed purpose and focus.

Now is an amazing time to join one of Waterloo Region's Top Employers for 2023

What you will be doing:

  • Set technical platform vision and implementation roadmap for owned assets to support and enhance business outcomes
Advance the technical health and performance of owned assets and platform
Manage total cost of operation and ownership of the product platform and identify opportunities for improvement
Accountable for introduction, alignment, and maintenance of a platform specific release calendar
Own the technical platform roadmap and ensure the delivery of milestones upholds enterprise standards
Ensure product solutions meet enterprise architecture and quality standards
Drive future development aligned with key metrics
Communicate critical, high-risk, advanced and/or cross-functional technical design and solutions to internal and external IT stakeholders
Establish release governance for scoping of upcoming releases according to the planning rules, business priorities and other technical, functional, or organizational dependencies and objectives
Assess downstream dependencies and the corporate or strategic impacts related to technical changes
Manage IT contracts and vendor relationships to ensure excellence of delivery and positive relationships
People Management of direct reports including hiring, training, mentoring, coaching, assigning work, and performance management

What you will bring:

  • 3+ years in a leadership / management role in solutions, design and development
  • 5+ years of handon enterprise class software solution design and development
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer systems engineering or software engineering or related field
  • A strong focus on client experience, growth mindset and innovation skills
  • Ability to build an engaging work environment and build strong relationships
  • Leading and mentoring multiple delivery teams by building stakeholder confidence in their performances
  • Leading change and digital transformations through love to modern technology
  • Exceptional organizational skills, including the capability to break down complex enterprise needs spanning multiple assets into multiphased, implementable

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