Architecture Owner - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

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Ottawa, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Architecture Owner - 0004I5

Posting Date:
Nov 20, 2023, 4:41:41 PM

Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type:
Permanent

Schedule:
Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad.

EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you'll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world.

Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide.

You'll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success.

And you'll know that you're making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

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Team & Job Overview

We have an opportunity for a results-focused individual with strong interpersonal, influencing, and strategic thinking skills to enable the transition of EDC business objectives & related requirements into industry standard, best practice enterprise aligned technology solutions.

This role will report into the Director of Architecture owners.

The Architect Owner's role is to design solutions to realize given business outcomes in the context provided by the Enterprise Architecture team.

In addition, this role provides support and oversight to ensure the solution is implemented.

In order to do this, the Architecture Owner will require the ability to operate in and across multiple business & technology areas including Line of Business, Finance, Legal, ATIP, Procurement, Security, Infrastructure, Partners, Vendor and Delivery Teams.

The role includes identifying gaps between current state technology architecture and what is required to execute on EDC Digital enabled Business Strategies and ensuring solutions are planned to fill these gaps.

Responsibilities

Interact with a variety of stakeholders to understand business needs.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (Product owner, business line, developers, analysts, enterprise architect, etc.) and guide technology choices.
Oversee the implementation and operationalization of endtoend solutions.
Diagnose problem situations and help solve complex problems.
Promote the adoption of the EDC architecture and cybersecurity principles in solution design and implementation.
Design the overall technological architecture of the product.
Partners with the Tech Lead to guide the implementation of software engineering practices for higher code quality; Develops architectural standards, principles, practices, and architectural templates.
Problem solves architecture questions with the team to ensure consistent and sound solutioning.
Identifies and removes technical impediments by being hands on and engaging in coding to help the team to develop the products.
Ensure technical considerations are communicated, and implementation conforms with design, longterm objectives, and enterprise architecture by coaching software engineers and by building reusable and scalable components.
Work with stakeholders and team members to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack.
Support product and delivery teams to ensure designed solutions are developed and deployed to meet objectives.
Constantly looking for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo.
Ensures consistency in architecture and engineering approaches between their team and others by frequently engaging the Enterprise Architect.

Screening Criteria

Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
7+ years of experience delivering IT solutions or as an Architect (as an Architecture Owner, Solutions Architect, etc.).
Thorough understanding of the concepts, technology, and solutions related to a modern ecosystem: domain architecture, microservices, APIs, streaming, Cloud technologies, realtime dataflows, orchestration, Cloud, DevOps, etc.
Strong communication skills with ability align organization on complex technical decisions.
Experience in Agile Delivery, with specific Solution Architect/Architecture Owner experience.
Excellent analytical skills, ability to resolve problems and make decisions.
Deep technical knowledge; architecture and development patterns and practices; how to realize nonfunctional qualities in a design.
Experience managing technical priorities within the backlog.

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