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About the Role

Bruce Power is seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect to join our Information Technology division. As an Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping the company's technology landscape and ensuring it aligns with our business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop technology strategies and roadmaps to support business outcomes and sustainably manage the technology landscape.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.