Enterprise Architect

Description:

The Enterprise Architecture team is growing! Enterprise Architecture plays a vital role within BDC’s technology organization. The team leads the development and implementation of innovative, secure, and cost-effective information technology target architectures, feeding into multi-year investment plans, solutions and operational environments that support and propel lines of business to meet their defined strategies.

We have a remarkably interesting line up of projects, which are changing the way we discover, design and deliver client centric journeys as part of our digital banking strategy. You would play a key role in these initiatives!

Do you stand out because of your curiosity and desire to innovate? Are you pragmatic and able to lead, learn and adapt?

Enterprise Architecture plays a key role in guiding the bank’s business decisions. If you would like to share your experience, have a major impact, and be fully involved in change, then you are the person we are looking for!

POSITION OVERVIEW

As an Enterprise Architect – Business at BDC, you will lead strategic initiatives while advising and articulating strategies on enabling business capabilities. You are the thought leader who understands business impacts of technology decisions and can easily explain to both technical and non-technical stakeholders the importance of technology and the value that it can bring to the business. You will help drive exciting new initiatives, own the solutions architecture that can not only help re-platform old technologies to improve performance and resiliency, but also enable digital transformation, advance business priorities, and ultimately deliver impactful customer experience. You will work with collaborators at all levels, from executives to technical architects and developers through a guided discovery process to understand key business and technical requirements.

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

• Provide thought leadership, subject matter expertise to business and technology leaders on strategic initiatives such as Digital Banking, including process automation, omnichannel communication & transactions, etc.

• Steward and articulate the target state experience for assigned domain/portfolio (which can be a program, products, business capabilities, journeys, etc.)

• Assess and analyze business strategy and requirements, the current technical environment and technology options to evaluate solution alternatives that meet business needs and bank strategy

• Collaborate with other enterprise architects (technology, security & data) to maintain a rolling 3-year roadmap of business & technical initiatives

• Be responsible for the creation, communication and improvement of the key principles, methods and models that describe the enterprise's current state and future state to enable its evolution

• Guide solution architects in your domain on architectural solutions so that the solutions are aligned to Enterprise Standards and best practices

• Lead architectural design discussions with business stakeholders – financing, advisory & risk

• Contribute to the definition and implementation of technology governance activities (e.g., reference architecture, standards, and guidelines) to ensure that project teams adhere to industry best practices and approved standards

• Govern the implementation of the architecture during delivery

• Research and monitor industry trends and technologies to recommend technology direction

• Provide leadership to project teams to capitalize on the technology opportunities

• Research emerging technologies and attend relevant professional courses/conferences to maintain currency of your skill set

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 10 + years of experience in technology architecture, preferably on designing and delivering large scale enterprise solutions

• 3 + years of experience in delivery of any of the following is an asset:

  • Loan origination

  • Credit decision engines / credit risk scoring models

  • Financial spreading / financial analysis application

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors

• Strong ability to take tough decisions by understanding and explaining trade-offs between business enablement and economics impacts relating to technology concerns

• Ability to bring the “big picture view” into day-to-day design and delivery discussions

• Experience in designing processes, creating reference architectures and architecture artifacts that guide solution architecture decisions related to applications, data, integration and infrastructure

• Experience in Event driven architecture (EDA), Domain driven design techniques (DDD), Hybrid Cloud deployment, Agile practices applied to a product team

• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals

• A broad view of the Canadian business banking & experience in financial services is an asset

• Bilingualism (spoken / written) in French and English

• Certification using TOGAF or another comparable methodology is an asset