We are looking for an AVP, Enterprise Architect supporting our Individual Wealth, (Retail) Insurance (Life and Health), and Advisor Network businesses
The Enterprise Architecture team works collaboratively with our business and IT partners developing technology strategies and roadmaps enabling the successful delivery of strategic business and IT goals.?
Our team of experts work collaboratively across the organization maintaining the Technology strategy and roadmap, developing, and managing target state architectures, and ensuring solution designs align with architectural directions and guardrails. Come join an organization committed to delivering innovative solutions.?
Reporting to the Chief Enterprise Architect, the AVP Enterprise Architecture proactively and holistically helps guide the line of business through technology transformation and optimization initiatives. Success in this role requires a strong partnership and collaboration with senior business and technology leaders across the organization.
As the Enterprise Architect, you will work with the Business and IT teams to develop a holistic technology strategy, roadmaps to prioritize execution, and drive business value through strong enterprise governance. This role focuses on understanding and applying a combination of existing, mainstream, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the technology eco-system to achieve desired business outcomes.?
The AVP Enterprise Architecture responds to disruptive forces by helping facilitate the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies to help the company drive targeted business outcomes.
?What you will do
- Oversee the creation of target state architecture, execution roadmaps, and IT strategy for the Individual Wealth, (retail) Insurance (life and health) and Advisor domains
- Ensure products and projects align with the architecture direction and balance budget, time, and delivery expectations
- Apply business & technical acumen, knowledge, and experience to drive new ways of thinking about issues to resolve highly complex technical and business challenges
- Drive IT eco-system opportunities and maintain awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, and presents opportunities to senior business leaders
- Recommend standards, best practices, and advocate for architectures that other lines of business in the organization will align to
- Lead/Participate in the Architecture Review Councils and raise items as required to collaborate on architecturally significant decisions
- Lead a team of Portfolio Architects who are each aligned to managing, and directing work volumes, and providing governance and oversight
- Lead all employee lifecycle events for all direct reports, including recruitment activities, selection, onboarding, and performance and professional management
- Demonstrate and provide leadership in managing IT risk and ensure compliance across all products and projects
- Design, implement and enforce governance strategies and tools for use across the enterprise
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?What you will bring
- 10+ years of multi-disciplinary architecture experience in a large, complex organization
- Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering or equivalent experience
- Direct experience with application modernization techniques and execution
- Experience with modern architecture patterns and cloud computing
- Ability to build and maintain collaborating stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions
- Ability to effectively communicate high-level concepts and solutions with Technology and Business teams
- Values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints to utilize an iterative and agile approach
- Understands the framework (i.e. structure, people, processes, and technology) that supports an organization’s strategy and can successfully leverage it
- Self-starter with the ability to comfortably operate in ambiguity
- Proven experience leading a team to meet deliverables, and manage a team’s personal and professional development
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Assets
- At least 5 years of experience in the insurance industry or the financial services industry
- Experience with retail insurance (life and health), wealth management and advisor facing application domains
- Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks, knowledge and awareness of architecture best practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines
- Understanding of continuous architecture and value stream app
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$180,000 and CA$240,000
Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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