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About the Role

The Team Lead, Architecture leads a team of Solution Architects, providing hands-on architectural leadership and people management to ensure QuadReal's technology solutions are strategically aligned, value-driven, and built on modern, secure, and well-governed foundations. This role combines technical depth with people leadership, guiding technology and design decisions from concept to value realization while mentoring architects.

Responsibilities

Leads, mentors, and coaches a team of two Solution Architects, guiding the development of tailored growth plans.
Supports succession planning within the team and contributes to a succession plan for own role.
Ensures the team has clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, with clear performance expectations.
Creates and fosters a customer-centric culture across all team interactions.
Supports the sourcing and allocation of appropriately skilled resources for successful project delivery.
Guides the team in delivering architecture services with high quality to stakeholders.
Applies Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, consistent, and governed appropriately.
Reviews and quality-assures architecture deliverables produced by the team, providing constructive feedback.
Performs and oversees technical analysis of vendor offerings, conveying assessments to stakeholders in business terms with risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
Ensures architecture impacts, risks, and dependencies are identified and communicated, and that governance processes are followed.
Creates and promotes clear, engaging visual representations of architectures and solutions.
Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape and modern architecture patterns.
Owns the IT architecture workstream for M&A and OpCo integrations.
Acts as a trusted advisor and key point of contact for business stakeholders on architecture.
Represents architecture to the business, promoting the vision, services, and capabilities.
Cultivates positive, high-trust working relationships across business and IT functions.
Excels at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Champions QuadReal's innovation culture, including the adoption of AI, within the IT team.
Leads and participates in innovation pilot projects, supporting idea generation and helping transform business stakeholder concepts into practical, value-realizing solutions.
Pursues professional development opportunities to maintain knowledge of prevalent and emerging technologies, and shares this knowledge with the team.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of experience leading and coaching small technical teams.
Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in architecture.
Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent), and demonstrated ability to apply them in a business context.
Understanding of design and integration practices in Cloud / XaaS-intensive environments.
Demonstrated ability to convey complex ideas effectively through storytelling and engaging presentations tailored to varied audiences.
Demonstrated ability to build strong, high-trust relationships with business leaders, IT colleagues, and partners.
Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with excellent facilitation and collaboration abilities at all levels of an organization.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to balance multiple stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Solution Architecture
People Management
Enterprise Architecture frameworks
Modern cloud technologies
Cloud landscape awareness
Architecture patterns
Visio
Whimsical
Application architecture
Data/integration architecture
Security architecture
AI adoption

Location

Vancouver, British Columbia

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Team Lead
3+ years leading technical teams
6+ years in architecture

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent work experience.

Salary/Compensations

$130,000-$160,000

Benefits

Performance-based incentive plan
Comprehensive health & dental benefits
Pension plan
Paid time off

About the Company

QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, development and operating company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Assets under management are $98.5 billion.
QuadReal has expanded its capabilities globally for investments in equity and debt in both the public and private markets.
QuadReal invests directly through operating platforms and via programmatic partnerships.
QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves.

Equal Opportunity

We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Even if your skills don’t align 100% with the listed qualifications or salary range, we encourage you to apply – you may be a great fit for this role or others in our community.
Applicants may also be considered for alternative positions within the organization where their qualifications and experience align more closely with available opportunities.
We use artificial intelligence (AI) technology — alongside human review — to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. Our recruitment team remains involved in all decisions.
QuadReal Property Group will provide reasonable accommodation at any time throughout the hiring process for applicants with disabilities or for those needing job postings in an alternate format.