Senior Manager, IT Architecture

About Toronto Community Housing Corporation

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.

Full-time Permanent

$142,987 – $157,285

Monday – Friday 36.25 hours per week

Yes

Non-Union:
Management/Exempt

ITS - Information and Technology Services

729 Petrolia Road, Toronto

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Candidate List

• 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;
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.

The Senior Manager of IT Architecture is responsible for leading a team of permanent, temporary, contract, and vendor-provided architecture resources. This role involves providing team management, architecture delivery, strategy, and business engagement. The Senior Manager will establish standards and technologies for digital solutions, translate client requirements into valuable solutions, and facilitate the architecture review board process.

• 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.

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