Director, Architecture

Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.
- We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.

We are looking for a talented, passionate, and engaged leader to join the Architecture team as a Director and Senior Architect.

You’ll be playing a big part in continuing our modernization journey of our core insurance platforms as we continue to evaluate, package, and deliver target state solutions aligned to our business strategy. This is a critical role that has accountability for team leadership, governance and ownership of at least one architecture domain portfolio.

You will join an enterprise that has been at the forefront of Digital Insurance, move to Cloud for Data and Core Platforms and recently Artificial Intelligence Realization.

What can you expect in this role?

As the Architecture Governance and Practices Leader
- Responsible for setting and maintaining architectural standards, best practices and metrics across Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture and Application Architecture
- Responsible for effective operation of the Architecture Review Board and alignment with other related governance bodies

As a Senior Domain Architect
- Understand business strategy in your assigned domain and develop an aligned technology roadmap, goals, and objectives
- Collaborate, guide, and build consensus among technology and business stakeholders to ensure delivery of target state architecture while understanding limitations and dependencies.
- Accountable to ensuring overall architecture integrity of solution building blocks, while bringing the right enablers of business capabilities and mitigating risk
- Responsible for producing architecture artifacts, helping set and maintain architectural standards
- Being well versed in broader areas and domains such as integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data architecture, business intelligence, and front-end digital experience
- Present concepts to senior leaders and executive audience, while being able to explain technical items in an appropriate manner for non-technical audiences.
- Analysis of technology industry, market trends and determine potential impact upon the business services and process.

As a Team People Leader
- Provide leadership and guidance to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
- Set clear goals and key performance indicators to ensure all team members are working toward the same outcome
- Maintain accountability in teams and hold each team member accountable for their work

What do you bring to the role?
- 8+ years of strong enterprise solutions and deliveries experience
- Proven experience as an architect in a complex and fast-paced environment with shifting requirements and iterative scope
- Passion to drive a non-hierarchical, agile operating model and ‘roll up the sleeves’, going outside his or her comfort zone to learn, and pushing the team to do the same.
- Well-rounded understanding of process and platforms in a services industry and the integration into digital activations with the appropriate abstractions and patterns that can be applied to Insurance use cases and integrate with encapsulated platform logic.
- Knowledge of user journeys for customer first processes
- Extensive large-scale cloud and SaaS modernization, rationalization, integration, and operations experience.
- Practical experience implementing modern engineering practices and technologies used to maximize quality and minimize cost / time to market.
- Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex (technical) messages and tradeoffs and tell a compelling story.
- Experience in services industry, ideally insurance or banking industry, or other large and complex B2C and B2B environments strongly favored.
- University Degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data sciences, sciences, or a related discipline

**What’s in it for you?**
- Hybrid work schedule for most roles
- Company share ownership program
- Pension and savings programs, with company-matched RRSP contributions
- Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
- Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
- Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
- Wellness and recognition programs
- Discounts on products a