Senior Enterprise Architect F/H (IT)

At EDC, we support Canadian businesses to succeed globally. We provide the financial tools and expertise they need to explore new markets, reduce risks, all towards the goal of making Canada and the world better through trade.
Position: Senior Enterprise Architect
Employment Type: Permanent
Enterprise Architect 18: Salaries typically range from $96,557 to $128,743 annually, based on qualifications and experiences, plus a performance-based incentive.

Export Development Canada operates in a hybrid work environment, currently requiring employees to work in the office 2 days per week. (This role can be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa or from one of our Community Hubs located in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Laval, or Brossard.
Relocation assistance is available for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria.
As a financial Crown corporation, we offer innovative financial solutions and expert insights to help businesses explore new markets, mitigate risks, and achieve growth.
Comprehensive Benefits: EDC offers a competitive compensation & benefits package, work-life balance, & the opportunity to help make Canada and the world better through trade.
We have hybrid work options, 3 to 4 weeks paid vacation, a corporate closure period, summer early Friday’s & no meeting Fridays.
Professional Development: Take advantage of our continuous learning opportunities, including training programs, workshops and language training.
Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace that champions employment equity & values diversity of ideas, strengths, & backgrounds to succeed.
Community Engagement: Participate in volunteer opportunities and give back to the community through our various social responsibility programs.
The Digital & Technology Solutions (DTS) group under the leadership of the Chief Information Officer was established in 2023 with the mission of empowering our customers and colleagues to take on the world, by seamlessly delivering secure and reliable digital experiences. Digital & Technology Solutions has set out to achieve the following objectives for EDC:
Define, execute, and sustain the integrated technology target state, target data model and technology operations required to enable EDC’s 2030 business transformation.
Establish and manage the rolling 3 Year Digital Roadmap that sequences the technology outcomes required to achieve the technology target state and facilitate its execution across all domains in the organization.
Keep pace with industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring EDC has access to the digital technology tools it needs to stay relevant in the market and grow Canadian global trade.
Lead and ensure integrated digital, data, infrastructure, and cybersecurity implementations to create excellent customer, user, and employee experiences.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a compact but highly influential team within the Digital and Technology Solutions (DTS) group that provides critical strategic and tactical services to and on behalf of other functions at EDC. The team is architecture as a service oriented meaning that it embraces its role as an influencer and facilitator of achieving concrete objectives and outcomes that are typically actually executed by other groups. The team defines the digital strategy and technology target state that enables EDC business strategies and facilitates its execution through enterprise frameworks, forums and actionable insights that shape planning outcomes and inform technology decisions. The EA team has accountability to ensure other architecture disciplines as well as corporate platform teams and relevant COEs are aligned with executing their parts of the digital strategy through various governance and collaboration functions.
EDC’s Digital Roadmap is premised on a key architecture principle of consolidating disparate, isolated business applications onto fewer market leading platforms to meet business needs, including for example Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce and ServiceNow, supported by cross-cutting enablement, data and technology platforms including Microsoft 365/Azure and Data Bricks – although not all business needs are expected to be supported by core corporate platforms and some niche applications will always be required.
Operating within a robust end-to-end architecture governance flow from strategy, objectives and key results to solution design review and effectiveness monitoring, the Senior Enterprise Architect will embody aspects of Enterprise Solution Architecture to facilitate cross-functional direction on the use, scope, boundaries and enterprise alignment of major corporate platforms as they are implemented through the execution of EDC’s Digital Roadmap. Work within the EA team to engage business and IT stakeholders to develop and evolve the digital strategy, roadmap and technology target state in alignment with business objectives.
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to understand their needs and integrate them into the digital roadmap.
Understand the concept, risks and practicalities of technical debt and how to balance tech debt pay down with growing new technology capabilities within a given business/IT domain.
Guide collaborative, cross-functional approach to framing full stack digital roadmap project execution.
Provide architecture framing that enables CX, application, data, integration and infrastructure teams to collaborate on a single business outcome-driven architecture designs.
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into cross-domain architectural solution guidelines.
Communicate architectural strategies, roadmaps, and governance to business and IT stakeholders in all areas of the organization.
Develop, maintain and grow a network of influence across skey business and IT stakeholders.
Support the development of Architectural Principles and Standards.
University degree in a field relevant to enterprise architecture discipline and practice.
Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at enterprise level.
Knowledge of all components of EA, business and IT principles, and processes.
Prior architecture involvement in implementing market-leading platforms in customer and employee servicing ecosystems specifically ServiceNow, Salesforce and modern SaaS based ERPs.
Knowledge and experience in existing, new, and emerging technologies such as Generative AI / AI solutions/applications.
Bilingual in both official languages (English and French).
Eligibility: EDC is committed to Fair Employment Practices and preference will be given to a candidate who is able to work legally in Canada at the time of application (Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents). Check our website here
EDC's Commitment to Employment Equity
Ex port Development Canada (EDC) is dedicated to fostering employment equity and building a diverse workforce. At EDC, we nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging where everyone has equal opportunity to grow, develop, succeed, and be their truest selves.
We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
EDC recognizes that disclosing the need for accommodations can be a personal matter. Permanent
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