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About the Role

The Senior Manager of IT Architecture is responsible for leading a team of architecture resources, providing team management, architecture delivery, strategy, and business engagement. This role establishes standards and technologies for digital solutions, translates client requirements into valuable solutions, and facilitates the architecture review board process.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff performance, employee engagement, workload balancing, and coordination of efforts among staff specialties.
• Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to team members.
• Provide architecture and solution leadership, mentoring, and expertise to the team and other delivery teams.
• Develop new IT standards and processes based on industry best practices.
• Ensure enterprise application architecture and associated standards, policies, and guidelines are maintained.
• Collaborate extensively with infrastructure and data architects, IT security and risk teams, and division owners to align enterprise solutions with business needs and strategy.
• Provide thought leadership on the development of IT roadmaps for specific business capabilities.
• Develop the vision for a target state IT architecture.
• Propose and implement industry best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Research and recommend new solutions, applications, or versions best suited to support the business.
• Understand key client needs and provide solutions with compelling value propositions that align with the organization's capabilities.
• Identify and drive opportunities for business process improvements and redesign.
• Prepare high-level estimates for projects.
• Work as a technical mentor to deliver necessary training and guidance to the entire IT team.
• Act as Project Manager for key architecture projects with diverse team members and stakeholders.
• Prepare briefing notes and status updates/reports for Corporate Affairs, Audit Committee, ELT, and other stakeholders.
• Collect information, evaluate client requirements, develop budgets and implementation plans, and optimize SLAs and costs.

Requirements

• University degree in computer science, engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad and deep architecture experience.
• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of architecture for business, application, integration, security, information, technology, implementation, and migration.
• Extensive experience with multiple computing platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages, and communication protocols.
• TOGAF, Archimate, or similar certification and training are assets; ITIL Foundation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal, consensus-building, and negotiation skills.
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables and specifications for RFPs.
• Awareness of emerging IT trends and directions.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals.

Location

• 729 Petrolia Road, Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time Permanent
• Hybrid

Education Level

• University degree in computer science, engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.

Salary/Compensations

• $142,987 – $157,285

Benefits

• Ability to participate in inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service
• Four (4) paid personal days
• Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching
• Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date
• Employee and family assistance program
• Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary)
• Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year
• Fitness membership discount

About the Company

• Toronto Community Housing Corporation (“TCHC”) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America.
• We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner.
• TCHC provides homes to over 41,000 low and moderate-income households in 88 of Toronto's neighbourhoods, with 93,000 tenants from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical ability, religion, ethnicity and race.
• We are an essential part of the City of Toronto's fabric and social system.
• Our over 2,000 employees work to achieve our vision of quality homes in vibrant communities where people are proud to live and work.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the cultural mosaic of our great city and the communities we serve.
• We recognize the value that comes from different viewpoints, unique experiences and diverse perspectives of our employees, who bring fresh, new ideas to our business.
• Diversity plays a key role in our ability to deliver on our mission to provide clean, safe, well-maintained, affordable homes for tenants.
• TCHC is committed to diversity and inclusion within its community and encourages applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and others who can help us provide vibrant communities and make our city a great place to live.
• Toronto Community Housing is committed to equity in employment.
• Our goal is a diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace that reflects the communities we serve.
• We will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities at all stages of the hiring process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and Toronto Community Housing’s Accessibility Policy.