Director, Enterprise Architecture

**49442** - **Toronto** - **Regular** - **Ongoing**

Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.4 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.

It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is accountable to ensure the business and technology architecture is aligned to enable the outcomes as laid out in the overall corporate strategy. To achieve this, Director, Enterprise Architecture must work closely with the leadership across Hydro One to understand the current business capability landscape, the outcomes currently being achieved, and the changes required to meet existing and future business strategy. With this information, Director, Enterprise Architecture will support the development of a defensible business capability investment plan which aligns with a strategic IT reference architecture.

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is accountable for the following key services: planning and supporting stakeholders, enterprise governance, supporting Hydro One delivery teams, developing technology strategies, roadmaps, and reference architectures, and acting as digital centers of excellence (COE).

**Job Duties**:
The Director, Enterprise Architecture will report directly to the Vice President Business Solutions and will be required to:
**Planning and Supporting Stakeholders**
- Support the various stakeholders across the enterprise in the development and refinement of their business capabilities through combining people, processes, and technology, to support the stakeholder investment requirements needs to achieve the targeted business outcomes.

**Enterprise Governance**
- Govern enterprise assets. Governance artifacts include policies, principles, standards, patterns, and guidelines that all IT investment solutions must follow. Governance includes the necessary collaboration across the enterprise to ensure adherence and the management of deviations from governance artifacts. Governance also includes the architecture methodologies, frameworks, languages, and tools that Hydro One leverages to support the practice across the enterprise.
- Work in conjunction with the IT delivery teams for the Hydro One business capability realization views.
- Oversee the IT landscape ensuring that technical debt, asset currency, and security vulnerabilities are addressed in a timely manner.
- Support Hydro One Delivery Teams
- Understand the evolution of technologies, processes, and people and how they will be applied across Hydro One to meet the Corporate Strategic objectives. Strategies describe the approach, roadmaps provide the directions, and reference architectures that inform the delivery of solutions.

**Digital Centers of Excellence (COE)**
- Provide COE's deliver services across the enterprise to delivery teams and stakeholders in order that they can leverage technology easily to achieve the desired outcomes:

- Governance of the service technology ensuring the proper use, documentation, and financial accountability.
- Subject Matter Experts to advise stakeholders on the use of the technology, services, and obligations of all parties.
- Development resources or access to preferred partners to assist with the development of solutions for the stakeholder, and
- Support of solutions where agreed.
- Provide visible leadership to develop and maintain a safe and healthy workplace.
- Create value for our customers both internal and external.
- Create a culture and maintain a work environment where all can be fully engaged.
- Interface with senior management of Hydro One as required to ensure requirements are met with respect to:

- Managing/enacting Strategic IT imperatives
- Setting and driving the IT Innovative/digital agenda
- Driving data to insights with tools and analytics
- Application technology
- Execution of approved annual IT architecture programs
- Ensure Technology Architecture team performance towards:

- Defining and maintaining the principles, standards, guidelines and reference architectures that all solutions will follow
- Participating in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance (including defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates)
- Ensuring that existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded and leveraged across the enterprise (IT and OT) to minimize redundancy and total cost ownership.
- Ensuring that the enterprise information architecture maps to the enterprise architecture
- Ensuring a focus on information/data quality by supporting/developm