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
• Support delivery teams the development of solutions and guidance, and provide subject matter experts that support delivery teams to improve the quality of solutions and alignment with the governance objectives. Develop technology strategies, roadmaps, and reference architectures.
• 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
  • Translation of agreed to strategic requirements into usable enterprise information architecture the overseeing of mapping of enterprise information architecture models to package application models, to determine impact or assess suitability of vendor solutions to enterprise information architecture requirements when necessary
  • Mapping and auditability of information assets as they flow from upstream legacy, package, or custom development and interfaces to downstream analytical applications, thus ensuring optimal transparency, quality, consistency and controlled redundancy across the enterprise
  • 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/development and publication of enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise consistency specifications
  • Constructing, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements
  • Ensuring timely and appropriate information models exist to aid projects
  • Develop a model management strategy in support of enterprise reuse and data-sharing objectives
  • Facilitating consistent business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archiving and recovery strategies, security, and change management at the enterprise level
  • Validating audit objectives and assist with creation of audit plans to ensure continued data integrity and transparency
  • Establishing guidelines for reporting procedures on the reuse of enterprise information architecture artefacts
  • Analyzing information to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, determine the accuracy of reports, and monitor the efficiency and security of operations
  • Reviewing audit reports to ensure findings and recommendations are acted on
  • Coordinating new development activities and ensure they are consistent and well integrated with the established enterprise information architecture, using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards adoption
  • Assisting in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality
  • Participating in key project design reviews as part of the methodology process to ensure application designs adhere to enterprise information architecture guidelines

• Support definition of ISD yearly strategic resource allocation and related IT budget for ISD.
• Establish and maintain key partner relationships with internal Hydro One Business units as part of the ISD Division.
• Support the management of the various Hydro One Line of Business needs ensuring communicated needs are balance against resource capacities and agreed to prioritizations.
• Assist provide the necessary business leadership to oversee the review of all completed IT projects to Business Case identified deliverables, including anticipated "Value Return".

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related study (such as library science), or equivalent related project experience.
• In-depth IT Architecture knowledge/experience - 15 years of experience in IT with a preference of 10+ years of IT Architecture design experience in a senior leadership role.
• Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures that enable well-integrated transactional, collaborative and analytical systems.
• Data/information modeling expertise at the enterprise level
• Understanding of common information architecture frameworks
• Understanding of differences between relational modeling and object modeling
• Knowledge of problem analysis, structured analysis, and design and programming techniques
• Knowledge of or experience with one or more multiuser, multitasking operating systems
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to analyze project, program and portfolio needs, as well as determine resources needed to meet objectives and solve problems that involve remote and elusive symptoms, often spanning multiple environments in a business area.
• Knowledge of project planning and management, including scope, time and resource management.
• Experience creating information policy to support effective design of information systems and use of information across the enterprise.
• Experience with various information modeling techniques (such as data flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams or create/read/update/delete matrices).
• Familiarity with business intelligence and data warehousing development techniques.
• High-level understanding of relational database management systems and other data structures.
• Experience with process redesign methods (such as business process re engineering, Six Sigma or total quality management) and tools (such as Proforma, IDS Scheer, Computas, Telelogic or Mega).
• Knowledgeable various aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions and organizational structures.

Skills, Education and Experience:

• Demonstrated Leadership and problem solving skills
• Strong relationship development/communication skills
• Experience with a North American regulated electric power and natural gas utility industry preferred