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About the Role
The Individual Wealth Technology team is seeking a Solutions Architect passionate about Wealth and innovating, defining, and delivering high-quality technology solutions. This role serves as a trusted advisor, partnering with the business to enable and support delivery, and defining strategies and roadmaps. The architect will set the technical vision, ensure consistency with enterprise architecture, and may engage in hands-on development. This role offers the opportunity to drive change by incorporating new patterns and technologies to improve business value.
Responsibilities
- Defines and facilitates a solution architecture leveraging enterprise capabilities and efficient usage of processes, technology, data, and people.
- Consults with business partners and delivery stakeholders.
- Participates in the definition and maintenance of technical solution architectures.
- Actively participates in architectural decision-making discussions and develops the technical vision and direction for solutions.
- Defines and creates candidate architecture solutions.
- Defines and maintains solution architectures for applications.
- Ensures quality designs for infrastructure and development issues.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for solutions to enhance organizational efficiency.
- Actively engaged in solving complex problems.
- Keeps abreast of the latest technological/industry trends.
- Acts as a trusted technology advisor/advocate for business units.
- Supports the development of technology roadmaps and proposals to achieve business plans.
- Works closely with team members to create solutions accommodating future architectural changes and designs.
- Identifies critical driving forces of process, data, people, and technology and suggests improvements.
- Looks beyond traditional business concepts to understand the core of a concept.
- Incorporates new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.
Requirements
- Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 7 years of related experience in technology environments.
- Minimum of 4 years working as an architect with experience on large scale projects enabling business to achieve goals and objectives.
- Experience leading architecture activities in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect or Portfolio Architect.
- Able to act as a mentor to less experienced architects and developers/engineers.
- Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, Archimate, 4+1 View Model, LeanIX), architecture practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines.
- Experience in Wealth Management technology ecosystems.
- Proven business acumen demonstrated through a broad understanding of an organization, functions, practices, trends, and competition.
- Financial knowledge demonstrated through the ability to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI).
- Values simplicity, ability to simplify difficult concepts.
- Ability to foster collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple business functions.
- Ability to effectively communicate high-level concepts and solutions with technology and business teams and stakeholders.
- Capable of high-level analysis of the big picture while maintaining a level of detail appropriate to the context of a variety of situations.
- Understands the framework (i.e. structure, people, processes, and technology) that supports an organization’s strategy and can successfully leverage it.
- Understands policy, practice, and standards to ensure design and delivery of compliant solutions.
- Able to challenge business and technical constraints in support of continuous improvement.
- Self-starter with the ability to comfortably operate in ambiguity.
Skills
- Wealth Management technology ecosystems
- Modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, Archimate, 4+1 View Model, LeanIX)
- Business architecture
- Information (data) architecture
- Application architecture
- Technology architecture
- Security architecture
- Communication
- Analysis
- Problem-solving
- Mentoring
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 7 years of related experience in technology environments
- Minimum of 4 years working as an architect
Education Level
- Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $113,500.00 - $163,500.00
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.
- Learn more about Canada Life.
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.