Description:
The Solutions Architect & Enterprise Technology Lead is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping, guiding, and executing the long-term technology vision of the organization. This role blends enterprise architecture leadership with solution design and technical oversight, ensuring that all digital initiatives—from enterprise systems to product platforms—are scalable, secure, and aligned with business transformation goals.
The role leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive Information Technology Architecture Plan (ITAP) and provides architectural direction for new digital products, including virtualized platforms. It ensures that technology decisions are grounded in feasibility, business value, and long-term sustainability
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Architecture & Planning
- Initiate and evolve the core enterprise architecture (ITAP) that aligns with immediate business transformation priorities and key project roadmaps.
- Prioritize and design high-level architecture paths for new and existing systems, evaluating build/buy/integrate options for key project initiatives.
- Define initial target-state architectures and phased roadmaps to support digital transformation and platform development.
Solution Design & Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural direction for digital product initiatives, including virtualized assessment platforms.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and interoperable across systems.
- Define and enforce technical standards, best practices, and integration requirements.
Governance & Assurance
- Act as design authority, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with enterprise goals.
- Lead technical reviews and risk assessments; advise on mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with data protection regulations, privacy, and security standards.
Collaboration & Team Leadership
- Work closely with executive sponsors, project managers, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Supervise and mentor technical staff (e.g., Information Security Analyst), and provide oversight to contractors and vendors.
- Support agile and iterative development practices through architecture enablement.
Innovation & Evaluation
- Research and evaluate relevant emerging technologies and industry trends, particularly in AI/ML, cloud, and assessment platforms, to inform project-specific and short-term strategic decisions.
- Recommend strategic technology investments with demonstrable ROI that directly support project success and initial scalability requirements.
Organizational Commitment
- Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing learning related to Indigenous cultural safety and humility and supporting organizational actions towards addressing indigenous-specific racism in BC’s health care system.
- Fosters and maintains an organizational culture that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, teamwork, and service excellence.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field. A Masters degree is considered an asset.
- Proven experience (7+ years) in software development, with at least 5 years in Solutions Architecture role, designing or supporting in enterprise-level systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure an asset), microservices architecture, and API design.
- Strong understanding of CRM / Database systems.
- Leadership experience in managing multiple, cross-functional teams or projects is an asset
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills; ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
- Comfort in cybersecurity practices, data privacy and governance, and secure coding practices.
- Excellent problem solving, communication, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion, and cultural humility as they apply to health care is an asset.