Senior Architect - Customer & Broker Engagement Technology

Job : 10007

Employment Type: Existing Role

Working Business Language: English. This role is considered a head‑office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.

Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full‑time and part‑time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top‑up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan. The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role.

The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $120,000 - $160,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.

We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

Under minimal supervision, this role contributes to Wawanesa’s success by providing high level design of enterprise IT solutions, developing enterprise technology roadmaps, architecture standards and principles, to meet business objectives taking into account the existing architectural landscape  architect ensures IT solutions are implemented following the solution architecture design.

• Develop and maintain current state architecture models and artifacts including the four key domains of architecture:
  Business, Application, Data, and Technology
• Gather solution architecture requirements from various sources including interviewing business and IT stakeholders, established architecture standards and principles, and reference architectures
• Identify solution non‑functional requirements
• Identify key business and technology drivers that impact application architectures, such as end‑user requirements, existing application environment (including legacy and packaged systems), and non‑functional requirements
• Evaluate alternate approaches and develop target state architecture models based on project objectives, architecture requirements, and non‑functional requirements
• Provide leadership and direction guidance to solution delivery teams to ensure solution design and implementation aligns to the target state architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the architecture to accommodate solution needs
• Ensure architectural compliance of solutions to enterprise architecture standards and principles
• Participate and provide architectural guidance in the construction, modeling, and design of prototypes, proofs of concepts and working models of complex or new design elements
• Ensure that all aspects of the solution design follows best practices and meets the requirements of the business by participating in conceptual and physical design, participating in design reviews and approving/signing off on design deliverables
• Ensure proper and effective reuse of application and technical services, patterns, frameworks and standard tools and templates in the proposed solution
• Design external system interface architecture, including appropriate application of techniques and standards such as service‑oriented architecture, web services, etc
• Create and maintain system and architecture design standards and provide guidance to project teams regarding guiding principles, system and application design, coding and design standards
• Develop enterprise application and technology architecture roadmaps based on corporate business and IT objectives and strategies
• Review and provide recommendations for continuous improvements to architecture practice
• Mentor and lead other architects on team to ensure application of consistent architecture practice
• A primary responsibility of this role is to safeguard…