Senior Architect

Senior Architect Base pay range CA$169,650.00/yr - CA$181,350.00/yr Reason for Vacancy: Replacement Who We Are Teranet is Canada’s leader in the delivery and transformation of statutory registry services with extensive expertise in land and commercial registries. We also market insightful property and data solutions, as well as practice management automation to thousands of customers in the real estate, financial services, government, utilities, and legal markets. Connect. Grow. Thrive Together. To learn more about who we are visit our website: About the Role Reporting to the Director, Commercial Solutions of IT, the Senior Architect is focused on driving innovation and improving delivery effectiveness. You will assume the full technical ownership of the end-to-end solution, help the organization make informed choices in the evolution of our architecture, increases the degree on integration and re-use between our various registry jurisdictions, help the organization mature its architecture practices and makes progress along the IT Strategic Roadmap. The Senior Architect is focused on ensuring that the technology strategy delivering the expected business benefits, within the budget, aligning with Business and Corporate Strategic Initiatives. Areas of focus is on integration/interoperability, Cloud Services optimization, looking to leverage AI as well as designing application software. Developing and advocating a strategy around the usage of platforms, technologies, tools, capacity, methodologies, and frameworks. Understanding business needs of the program, helping define functional and non-functional requirements, identifying and assessing risks, and providing development cost estimates. Reviewing design and code from software designers and developers. Guiding/coaching software engineers on resolving complex issues and recommending solutions to architectural related issues. Providing leadership to solutions architect and software engineers around technical and operational excellence, security compliance, standards, and methodologies. Working with other architects and teams and aligning tools and processes. Helping the organization make good choices in the evolution of our architecture. Helping the organization make progress along our IT Strategic Roadmap. What You’ll Be Doing Project Architecture, Design, and Development Maintain and modernize the Search, and registration of both our Land and Personal Property registries. As well as our backend workflow engine for the Land Title System Working with Teranet’s other registries and central services teams to understand and implement a modern composable architecture to be leverage across all of Teranet. As strategic partners documenting and communicating the Teranet Manitoba systems architecture to stakeholders in IT, business, and government. Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for the work occurring within the modernization project. Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation. Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications. Managing vendors & consultants involved in evaluation or implementation activities. Consultation Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements. Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners. Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk. Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations. Thought Leadership Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements. Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts. Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems. Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks. Develop a cohesive team and ensure their continued success. Lead the definition and development of cloud reference architecture and management systems. Conduct product work reviews with team members. What You Bring Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline & 10 years of experience working in the IT field Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline & 7 years of experience working in the IT field 5-7 years of experience in architecting or designing solutions, preferably in a mid to large organization working on mission critical applications Experience with large scale, multi-year application development and re-platforming projects B2B and B2C experience Knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, networking, storage, security, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability) Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes Understanding of information security technology and best-practices Ability to articulate and understand a financial business case Let’s Talk Pay We believe in being upfront about pay and helping you make informed decisions about your career. The annual pay range for this role is $169,650-$181,350 CAD , inclusive of base salary and target incentive pay. We understand that great talent comes in many forms, each with unique skills, experience, and potential. Your salary will be tailored to reflect the experience you bring and the impact you’re ready to have on this role. Along with your cash compensation, we offer a comprehensive package which includes the following: Employer Matching Retirement Savings Plan Maternity, Parental and/or Adoption Leave Top-Up Programs Corporate Discounts & GoodLife Group Rate Membership Employee Assistance Program (for you and your loved ones) Our Human Approach to Hiring At Teranet, we use smart technology to make hiring faster and more efficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools help us review applications and identify strong matches—but the real decisions? Those are made by our awesome people. Every interaction you’ll have, and every decision we make, is led by humans. AI may support us, but it’s human connection that drives every hire. At Teranet, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected, and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we live and serve. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. Come As You Are. We Like You that Way Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Information Technology Industries IT Services and IT Consulting #J-18808-Ljbffr