Senior Architect

Senior Architect Base pay range

CA$/yr - CA$/yr

Teranet is Canada’s leader in the delivery and transformation of statutory registry services with extensive expertise in land and commercial registries. We also market insightful property and data solutions, as well as practice management automation to thousands of customers in the real estate, financial services, government, utilities, and legal markets.

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Reporting to the Director, Commercial Solutions of IT, the Senior Architect is focused on driving innovation and improving delivery effectiveness. You will assume the full technical ownership of the end-to-end solution, help the organization make informed choices in the evolution of our architecture, increases the degree on integration and re-use between our various registry jurisdictions, help the organization mature its architecture practices and makes progress along the IT Strategic Roadmap.

The Senior Architect is focused on ensuring that the technology strategy delivering the expected business benefits, within the budget, aligning with Business and Corporate Strategic Initiatives.

Areas of focus is on integration/interoperability, Cloud Services optimization, looking to leverage AI as well as designing application software.

• Developing and advocating a strategy around the usage of platforms, technologies, tools, capacity, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Understanding business needs of the program, helping define functional and non-functional requirements, identifying and assessing risks, and providing development cost estimates.
• Reviewing design and code from software designers and developers.
• Guiding/coaching software engineers on resolving complex issues and recommending solutions to architectural related issues.
• Providing leadership to solutions architect and software engineers around technical and operational excellence, security compliance, standards, and methodologies.
• Working with other architects and teams and aligning tools and processes.
• Helping the organization make good choices in the evolution of our architecture.
• Helping the organization make progress along our IT Strategic Roadmap.

• Maintain and modernize the Search, and registration of both our Land and Personal Property registries. As well as our backend workflow engine for the Land Title System
• Working with Teranet’s other registries and central services teams to understand and implement a modern composable architecture to be leverage across all of Teranet.
• As strategic partners documenting and communicating the Teranet Manitoba systems architecture to stakeholders in IT, business, and government.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for the work occurring within the modernization project.
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.
• Managing vendors & consultants involved in evaluation or implementation activities.

• Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment
• Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
• Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

• Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions…