Senior IT Strategist

Transforming Bruce Power With Technology

At Bruce Power, we are on a mission to drive innovation and growth through technology. We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect to join our team and contribute to our success.

The role of the Enterprise Architect is to provide a bridge between long-term business goals and the long-term sustainability of our technology landscape. This involves working closely with business clients to understand their challenges and objectives, and applying that understanding to define technology development opportunities and roadmaps that address those challenges.

The Enterprise Architect will also research industry trends, OPEX, and emerging technologies to inform technology investments for long-term value. This is a permanent, full-time position that offers a competitive benefits, compensation, and pension package, and is located on site in Tiverton, Ontario.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with line of business stakeholders to understand and model business strategy, identify capability needs, and new opportunities to inform outcome-driven technology investments
• Develop technology strategies and roadmaps to support desired business outcomes and sustainably manage the landscape of technology solutions
• Research and develop emerging technology viewpoints and industry trends for applicability to Bruce Power
• Collaborate with other architects and technical leaders to define architectural standards and patterns
• Develop architecture governance framework and processes ensuring adherence to established standards
• Act as a mentor and subject matter expert for internal IT staff in development of solution architecture and design
• Maintain and recommend changes to IT Security Guidance standards to accommodate new patterns, opportunities, and assess applicability to development of solution architecture
• Provide strategic planning and oversight for short, medium, and long-term projects, managing and optimizing the flow of value through the various IT Portfolios, and identify relationship of investments to assessed capability criticality and maturity
• Assist with economic decision-making by supporting feature and capability estimation
• Help manage risks and dependencies, escalating and tracking impediments
• Encourage collaboration between teams and Solution Architects, ensuring that IT solutions align to defined business strategies and meet long-term objectives
• Work with Portfolio Leads, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Maintain overall accountability for architectural quality of IT initiatives, ensuring all architecture and design meets business needs, aligns with strategic objectives, and satisfies appropriate IT and/or Cyber security requirements

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of technology and abstract concepts and ability to analyze
• Able to develop technology strategies and associated architecture roadmaps to drive business goals with awareness from a technical, financial, and organizational perspective
• Practical experience with Capability-based assessment and modeling and creating associated capability maps
• Experienced working with a number of Architecture frameworks and understands importance of adapting to organizational needs
• Experience with software development
• Solid conceptual understanding of technology components, DevOps tools, and practices
• Strong knowledge of one or more standard formal Enterprise Architecture frameworks
• Proven experience in building strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including senior-level executive sponsors
• Experience in defining strategic roadmaps and establishing priorities across competing needs of multiple stakeholders
• Ability to influence leaders, drive change, and transformation while working across all levels of the organization
• Proven ability to demonstrate the positive role of Enterprise Architecture in risk identification and mitigation
• Hands-on experience with software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Experience with Lean Portfolio Management facilitation at the program, portfolio, and executive-level
• Excellent analytic, interpersonal, and communication skills to influence and engage colleagues, along with a broad understanding of the businesses they support
• Ability to effectively communicate abstract concepts and technical information to both non-technical and technical staff
• Must be creative, detail-oriented, and capable of balancing the big picture with meeting day-to-day organization needs

Education and Experience

• This knowledge is normally considered to be gained through successful completion of a four (4) Year University degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering; or Commerce/Business discipline

Selection Criteria

• Skills, Knowledge, Education, and Experience per the above qualifications and experience
• Verbal and written communication
• Transferable skills (for example, effective communication, drive for accountability and results, time/organizational management, collaboration, and teamwork)
• Competency-based interview
• Past performance record and suitability for this position