Sr Manager, Technical Architecture

Your Newpany
Our client is a global miningpany dedicated to safely producing nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals—critical resources powering the world’s energy transition.

With a mission to improve lives and shape a better future together, Vale Base Metals plays a vital role in modern life. Their metals are found in everyday technologies, life‑saving medical equipment, and electric vehicles advancing climate‑change solutions.

With more than 15,000 employees worldwide, the organization operates across Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. They aremitted to transforming critical minerals into long‑term prosperity and sustainable development—making this an opportunity to contribute to work that truly matters.
Your New Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Architecture, to join our Information Technology organization, supporting enterprise and industrial operations from Toronto/Sudbury, ON.This is a permanent, hybrid role, operating in aplex, global IT and OT environment, where uptime, safety, and resilience are non‑negotiable.

This role is practitioner‑led and execution‑oriented. It is designed for a senior technical expert who can act as a hands‑on authority across infrastructure, networks, hosting, cloud, integration platforms, cybersecurity, identity, and end‑userputing.

You will work closely with engineering teams, vendors, cybersecurity, architecture peers, and delivery teams to turn architectural intent into operable, real‑world solutions across corporate and site‑based environments.
About You:You are a deeply technical architecture leader who thrives in large‑scale, industrial or asset‑intensive environments. You arefortable going deep into technical detail when required and are respected as a trusted authority duringplex design decisions, major incidents, and critical initiatives.

You balance strong architectural thinking with pragmatic execution. You understand the realities of legacy systems, OT constraints, and operational risk—and you design solutions that work in practice, not just on paper.
Key Responsibilities:In This Role, You Will Backend IT & OT Technical Architecture

Own and evolve the technical architecture for backend IT and OT platforms, including data centres, networks, cloud environments, hosting platforms, middleware, identity, cybersecurity tooling, and end‑userputing.

Ensure architectures support both enterprise IT workloads and industrial OT environments

Design for availability, performance, safety, security, and operational resilience

Infrastructure, Network & Hosting Architecture

Define and oversee enterprise‑wide network architectures spanning corporate, site, and OT networks

Own hosting andpute architectures across on‑prem, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments

Ensure appropriate segmentation, redundancy, and failover across IT/OT landscapes

Cloud, Middleware & Platform Integration

Define cloud architecture patterns and technical guardrails

Own middleware and integration platform architectures supporting enterprise, data, and industrial systems

Ensure platforms enable reliable, scalable integration acrossplex environments

Cybersecurity & Technical Risk Management

Embed cybersecurity‑by‑design across technical architectures

Partner closely with cybersecurity teams to align with standards, threat models, and regulatory requirements

Assess and mitigate technical risks related to legacy platforms, OT environments, and site constraints.

Technical Leadership & Delivery Support

Act as a senior technical authority for solution design, major incidents, andplex challenges

Provide hands‑on guidance to engineers, integrators, and vendors through design, build, testing, and deployment

Review and challenge technical designs to ensure architectural integrity and operational viability

Standardization & Continuous Improvement

Identify opportunities to reduceplexity through standardization and modernization

Define repeatable technical patterns and reference architectures

Capture lessons learned from outages and implementations to improve resilience and reliability

Experience &

Education:

11–15 years of progressive experience in mining & metals,…