About the Role
EDC helps Canadian businesses succeed abroad by providing financial tools and expertise to explore new markets and reduce risks, aiming to build a better Canada and world through trade.
Responsibilities
- Define and own EDC's vision and multi-year roadmap for intelligent automation and workflow platforms.
- Align platform capabilities with business priorities, transformation initiatives, and EDC's operating model.
- Balance execution, growth, and transformation demands while managing technical debt and platform sustainability.
- Partner with technical service owners, developers, system analysts, and deployment teams to ensure solutions are designed and deployed according to platform standards.
- Enable efficient intake, prioritization, and sequencing of work across multiple teams and domains.
- Ensure robust release management, lifecycle management, and production support models are in place.
- Collaborate with the Business Enablement team and Automation Center of Excellence to assess, scope, and shape Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and workflow automation opportunities.
- Ensure automation use cases are suitable for the correct platform (UiPath, ServiceNow, Power Platform, or hybrid solutions).
- Contribute to maintaining the citizen development operating model, including enablement, controls, and support.
- Ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to support innovation without compromising security or maintainability.
- Promote platform reuse and awareness, along with standard platform patterns, across the organization.
- Establish and implement platform governance, standards, and safeguards.
- Act as the final decision-maker for platform design choices, customization vs. configuration, and the onboarding of new use cases.
- Ensure platform changes comply with EDC's architecture, security, and risk requirements.
- Represent platforms in architecture reviews, governance forums, and executive discussions.
- Ensure developers, teams, and vendors adhere to the defined deployment cycle, including design reviews, security and risk assessments, testing standards, and release approvals.
- Implement lifecycle checkpoints and automation/workflow solutions to ensure quality, resilience, and maintainability.
- Balance enablement and control by ensuring teams can act quickly without bypassing governance.
- Collaborate with other platform owners and platform teams to ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, consistent integration patterns and contracts, and coordinated roadmap planning and dependency management.
- Represent Intelligent Automation platforms in multi-platform planning, design, and governance forums.
- Maintain strategic relationships with platform vendors and implementation partners.
- Evaluate new features, releases, and emerging capabilities for functional relevance.
- Act as the primary platform liaison for key technology and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Automation Center of Excellence and Generative AI Center of Excellence to assess and support AI-powered automation use cases.
- Ensure generative AI capabilities are integrated into automation platforms in a controlled, secure, and value-driven manner.
- Define safeguards and decision criteria for when and how generative AI is applied to automation solutions.
Requirements
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in enterprise automation, workflow, or low-code platforms.
- Proven experience as a Platform Owner, Product Owner, or Technical Product Manager.
- Solid understanding of UiPath, ServiceNow (CSM, App Engine, and Workflow Data Fabric), and Microsoft Power Platform.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, integration patterns and APIs, and security, risk, and compliance in regulated environments.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision-making.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience working within or alongside an Automation Center of Excellence or Business Enablement function.
- Proven ability to manage automation deployment across multiple teams and vendors while maintaining deployment velocity.
- Experience integrating generative AI capabilities into enterprise automation platforms within defined risk and governance frameworks.
- Excellent understanding of platform governance models and value-based prioritization.
- Experience establishing and governing citizen development programs.
- Proficiency in both official languages (English and French).
- Must meet government security clearance requirements.
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada (Canadian citizens or permanent residents).
Skills
- Automation platforms
- Workflow platforms
- Low-code platforms
- UiPath
- ServiceNow (CSM, App Engine, Workflow Data Fabric)
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Enterprise architecture principles
- Integration patterns
- APIs
- Security
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Stakeholder management
- Executive communication
- Generative AI
- RPA
Location
- Ottawa
- Toronto
- Mississauga
- Montreal
- Brossard
- Laval
- Calgary
- Halifax
- Vancouver
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- 7 years of experience in enterprise automation, workflow, or low-code platforms
- Experience as a Platform Owner, Product Owner, or Technical Product Manager
Education Level
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $96,557 to $128,743
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Work-life balance
- Three to four weeks of vacation
- A period of closure
- Shortened summer Fridays
- Meeting-free Fridays
- Continuous learning opportunities (training programs, workshops, language training)
- Diverse and inclusive work environment
- Wellness initiatives
- Mental health support
- Fitness programs
- Community investment (volunteer activities, social responsibility programs)
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- Export Development Canada (EDC) helps Canadian businesses succeed abroad by providing financial solutions and expert advice.
- As a Crown corporation, EDC offers innovative financial solutions and expert advice to help businesses explore new markets, mitigate risks, and grow.
- EDC aims to build a better Canada and world through trade.
Equal Opportunity
- EDC is committed to fair employment practices and to building a diverse workforce.
- EDC is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment that respects individuals of all backgrounds, abilities, and skills.
- EDC fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging where everyone has an equal opportunity to develop, grow, succeed, and reach their full potential.
- EDC is committed to employment equity and values diversity of ideas, strengths, and backgrounds to foster success.
