Manager, Architecture

Description

Manager, Architecture

About Toyota Financial Services

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) provides retail, leasing and wholesale financial services to Toyota and Lexus dealerships and customers across Canada. TFS is a member of Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan with the Canadian operation headquarters in Markham, Ontario

What Sets Us Apart?

At Toyota Financial Services (TFS), you will help create best in class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative and team focused environment. TFS is an important part of the Toyota family, an award-winning global company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, continuous improvement and environmental responsibility.

TFS currently has an exciting full-time permanent opportunity as the Manager, Architecture reporting to the CIO in the Systems department.

We have implemented a hybrid work environment and our head office is in Markham, ON. Number of days worked in office is subject to role requirements. More details will be discussed during the interview process.

What We’ll Bring:

Exciting and challenging hybrid work environment with material deliverables that will shape the technology future of TCCI.

A hybrid work environment.

A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.

Competitive compensation package including health and dental benefits and bonus.

Health and dental benefits effective immediately.

Company pension plan with matched contribution.

Associate vehicle discount program.

Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement.

Fitness reimbursement.

Great company culture-Respect for people and continuous improvement is at our core

Competitive time off benefits.

Summer Hours – condensed work week during the summer.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Strategy and Budget

Contributes to the IT Strategy and the development of the annual information technology budget.

Identifies solutions roadmap and technologies to ensure that TCCI remains current and recommends new technologies to deliver operational excellence, financial performance, and competitive edge.

Stays current with industry trends, advises and educates management on the importance and impact of these trends.

Provides input to the budgeting, forecasting and operations of Systems. 

Architecture, Integration and Data

Develops the overall Enterprise Architecture and ensures business strategy alignment.

Conducts technical research and technical proof of concepts to meet existing and future business needs.

Maintains the Technology Strategy and Roadmap in collaboration with Systems and the Business.

Understands and synthesizes active projects, technology decisions and current IT roadmap to a cohesive plan and direction.

Provides guidance on how to address business requirements via a technical solution.

Navigates successfully through areas of technology-related conflict as they arise to achieve effective business-focused outcomes.

Builds effective relationships with functional leaders / product owners to inform their thinking and decision making around technology.

Develops a blueprint for deploying individual solutions that align with the overall Enterprise Architecture

Works with vendors to develop, review and approve the solution architecture.

Supports the implementation of the integration and solution architecture.

Creates models/component and interface specification documents.

Assists in the design of configurations, extensions, integrations and customizations.

Defines the enterprise data architecture, data management governance and practices and owns the end-to-end data lifecycle.

Assesses the “As-is” business models and data models for existing services and identifies gaps to the “To-be” architecture.

Product Development and Delivery

Coordinates with vendors and third-party’s product development teams with respect to architecture and integration standards.

Validates the solution architecture against requirements and assumptions.

Supports the development effort of internal supported solutions.

Collaborates with product team, infosec, technical resources and external architects to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.

Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of all software products.

Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices including Agile.

Support/Vendor Management

Leads the architecture team and works closely with other IT team members to support the achievement of internal business SLAs.

Develops and implements uniform architecture standards/practices and ensures the necessary information security policies and procedures are in place to minimize risks.

People Development

Recruits, leads and develops a team of IT professionals, provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to maximize their performance.

Provides leadership, direction and coaching to staff and associates, and creates an environment that inspires and delivers peak performance and superior results.

Provides technical leadership for all business solution-related initiatives and serves as a technical resource to other departments regarding technology needs. 

What You’ll Bring:

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field required

10 to 12 years of IT Management and/or IT experience required.

5+ years of experience in Enterprise/Solution Architecture with a solid foundation in the different architectural dimensions (Business, Application, Data and Technology Architectures).

5+ years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.

5+ years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modeling notations (e.g., ArchiMate, BPMN, ARIS method).

Demonstrated experience of various Cloud platforms and technologies, industry trends and solutioning experience in Public, Hybrid Cloud and PaaS.

Demonstrated experience in enterprise level integration architectures (e.g., involving APIs, Middlewares, ESBs,etc.)

Strong business and financial acumen required.

Proven ability to effectively prioritize and participate in and/or lead multiple projects, activities and/or tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment is required.

Superior analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills required.

Experienced implementing one or more of the following enterprise systems: financial, CRM, document management systems.

Deep understanding of enterprise IT architecture (application and infrastructure), business architecture governance, data architecture governance, and SLDC/project/solution governance.

Excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal, presentation, customer service and relationship building skills required.

Proven track record in working with external consultants, senior business leaders, internal stakeholders and external vendors required; demonstrated abilities in partnering with the business and leading change execution.

Skilled at teamwork, communication (verbal and written), innovation, adaptability, and decision making, along with a customer focus, results orientation, and business sense.

Must have flexibility to work outside of regular business hours if/when required.

What You Should Know:

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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