Director, Architecture

4 weeks ago

Mississauga, Canada Symcor Full time

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

About Symcor

Symcor enables secure data exchanges and supporting business processes, to help clients succeed in an evolving digital world. Trusted by Canada's largest institutions for over 25 years to support their digital transformations, Symcor aligns industry participants to solve common challenges in the most effective and efficient way. Our goal is for every employee to feel valued and accepted as part of the team and connected to Symcor and our values, fostering a sense of belonging. Symcor is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. If you need accommodation for the interview process, just let us know #youbelonghere

Oversee all IT architecture domains and manage a team of enterprise, solution, and technical architects. This role focuses on aligning business with technology, driving architectural excellence, and building the enterprise architecture strategy. Help the architecture team grow, mature, and evolve ensuring it is a value-adding and integral component within the organization

This is a hybrid role with requirements to be on site 3 days a week, providing a balance between remote flexibility and in-person collaboration.

About The Role:

  • Lead and oversee the strategic direction and operational execution of the Enterprise and Solution architecture teams, ensuring their alignment with organizational goals and fostering a high-performance environment.
  • Support the Platform Engineering, and Software Delivery teams by providing governance and oversight across technical initiatives within the platform organization.
  • Oversee the creation, establishing, promotion, and maintenance of technology standards and governance across the organization.
  • Champion the strategic alignment of enterprise and solution architecture to business, product and other areas of the organization.
  • Help lines of business in establishing technology roadmaps and modernization strategies
  • Engage stakeholders and key partners by providing support and building channels of communication.
  • Champion Innovation and Emerging Technologies while balancing that with standardization and existing legacy elements within the organization.

What You Need to Succeed:

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Certifications relevant to Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) would be considered an asset.

Experience:

  • 6-9 years of experience in: Enterprise Architecture, Software and Solution Architecture, Cloud Technology, Software Development and Delivery, Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, Quantitative Data.

Skill requirements:

  • Passion for working with people, processes, and technology while leading by example to foster a culture of collaboration, team-work, mutual support, excellence, and innovation.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise, software, solution architecture – architectural characteristics, trade-offs, best practices, architectural patterns.
  • Ability to “Zoom in and Zoom Out” by having a strong understanding of both high-level business concepts as well as deep technical details. Expertise and ability to communicate on any of these levels with different stakeholders.
  • Ability to balance innovation, emerging technologies, and creativity with the realities of the business, legacy systems, and standardization.
  • Ability and willingness to “roll up the sleeves” and contribute to the creation, documentation, and execution of enterprise architecture initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of the software development and delivery process as well as the challenges that software engineering teams face.
  • Strong understanding of cloud technology, concepts, and platforms. We use Azure, so familiarity with Azure is a plus. However, the requirement here is for understanding of the general concepts – not necessarily a specific public cloud.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Strong ability to “sell ideas”, collaborate, negotiate, and influence.
  • Ability and willingness to continue learning and applying new learnings to situations where applicable.
  • Sharing knowledge and promoting learning and excellence with peers, reports, and superiors.
  • Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman as well as the general application of EA in the industry, its challenges, and how it can bring value.

What’s In It For You

At Symcor, we define our success by what we help others achieve. We were created to support our clients and, through our products,services,and solutions, protect and strengthen their brands. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achievingsuccessthat is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program that includes a competitive compensation package, flexible benefits and time away options, retirement and savings plans and a commitment to your overall health and well-being through our myWell-being program.
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
  • Opportunities to do challenging work and progressively take on greater accountabilities for growth.
  • We foster an inclusive atmosphere of One Symcor with our philosophy of +1 Unique You, we harness each employee’s uniqueness, different skills, backgrounds, and perspectives to contribute to mutual success. It is the diversity of our people and the inclusive environment that has been and will always be key to Symcor’s success.

Symcor is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. Upon request, we will provide accommodation for candidates.

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