Enterprise Architect

Job Posting Start Date:  July 26, 2024

Job Posting End Date: August 9, 2024

Are you looking for a meaningful career that makes a difference in your community? Would you enjoy an opportunity to contribute to our innovation and growth by bringing personal perspectives and experiences to your everyday work?

Working at Bruce Power, you can enjoy the benefits of small-town living with outdoor adventures and a rewarding career. As part of our progressive, diverse, and inclusive workplace, you will work in a Safety-First environment, supporting challenging and impactful nuclear projects like our Life Extension Program and medical isotope production. Ongoing training and development are part of every job, offering constant growth and skill-building potential.

Currently, our Information Technology division has an Enterprise Architect opportunity.

The role of the Enterprise Architect is to provide a bridge between long term business goals and long term sustainability of the organization’s technology landscape, working with business clients to understand challenges and objectives, then applying their understanding and research through their experience to define technology development opportunities and roadmaps to address those challenges. The Enterprise Architect also researches industry trends, OPEX and emerging technologies to inform technology investments for long term value.

This is a permanent, full-time position which offers a competitive benefits, compensation and pension package and is located on site in Tiverton, Ontario.

Key Responsibilities:

Work closely with line of business stakeholders to understand and model business strategy, identify capability needs and new opportunities to inform outcome-driven technology investments

Develop technology strategies and roadmaps to support desired business outcomes and sustainably manage the landscape of technology solutions

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

Knowledge and Skills:

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