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About the Role
The Digital Delivery & Platforms team is responsible for modernizing how digital experiences, platforms, and capabilities are delivered across the enterprise. This role will guide the design, evolution, and implementation of the target state solution architecture, engaging with executive leadership to shape the enterprise digital technology and architecture design.
Responsibilities
- Define the Enterprise digital technology strategy, with a strong emphasis on AI, automation, platforms, and experience transformation.
- Develop a clear technology vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap aligning business ambition with technology enablement.
- Identify target state platforms and technology to achieve ambitions.
- Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to define target state architecture and solution designs.
- Translate strategy into actionable plans including investment cases, value hypotheses, delivery sequencing, and success metrics.
- Partner closely with Business, Operations, Technology, Data, Architecture, Security, Risk, and Legal teams.
- Ensure high quality delivery of leading-edge solutions that meet time and cost requirements and align with business unit and enterprise architecture principles and design standards.
- Proactively identify areas and opportunities to use technology to enhance customer experience and/or organizational efficiency.
- Research and recommend opportunities to leverage technology and keep up with the industry to support the strategy.
- Support development of business strategies by producing technology roadmaps, architectural standards and patterns.
- Provide leadership in managing IT risk (e.g.: security, disaster recovery, technology solution quality, etc.) and control requirements.
- Ensure leaders, employees and vendors work together to drive performance and that high expectations are achieved within the values of the organization.
Requirements
- Deep technologist with a background in software development in roles such as Tech Lead and Architecture.
- Led or supported business process changes related to technology.
- Prior experience working in an Architect capacity and exposure to Architecture governance preferred.
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments with a preference for significant complexity, highly regulated, and/or financial services with experience developing and promoting code into production.
- 5+ progressive leadership experience related to both projects and teams.
- Operational risk expertise related to working in complex shared environments.
- Exposure/Involvement with Strategy/Delivery and having a Product mindset is desired, and demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and maintaining Architecture runways.
- Enthusiasm for hands-on work to support innovative prototypes and guide development teams.
- Knowledge of emerging technology trends and best practices for improving operational efficiency.
- Strong communication skills with ability to engage independently with different levels of the organization and tailor communication based on audience.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across multiple geographies, business functions, and levels of technical knowledge.
- Demonstrate customer centric approach to problem solving, striving for service excellence with an outward focus.
- Experience motivating highly skilled groups of individuals toward teamwork and a common purpose; integrating efforts across units; monitoring and assessing results.
- Ability to challenge; understanding how to persuade and influence.
Skills
- AI
- Automation
- Platforms
- Experience transformation
- Digital technology architecture
- Platform modernization
- Customer-led experience design
- Agile delivery methodologies
- Architecture runways
- Emerging technology trends
- Operational efficiency
- Application modernization
- System decomposition
- Rationalization
- Omni-channel experiences
- Cloud-native designs
- API standards
- Microservices
- Single page apps
- Integration to core/legacy platforms
- UML
- TOGAF
- Archimate
- Continuous architecture
- Value stream approach
- Business Architecture
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Director
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments
- 5+ progressive leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree
- TOGAF certification is a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $149,000 - $199,000 annually
Benefits
- Career Development: Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
- Health & Wellness: Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
- Time Off: In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
- Financial Security: Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options.
- Rewards and Recognition: Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!
- Emphasis on Community: Workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.
About the Company
- We’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians.
- Our company is trusted by 1 in 3 Canadians and contributes to the strength of communities across the country.
- We’re looking for people who live our values everyday: we step up, we do the right thing, and we deliver – for our customers, communities and each other.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to removing barriers and ensuring equal access to employment. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application process may contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com. All information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and Canada Life policies.
- Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.