Director, Architecture - Toronto, Canada - Porter Airlines Inc.

Porter Airlines Inc.

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Job Summary:
The Director, Architecture role is essential to the success of technology at Porter.

They maintain and evangelise the architecture vision that uses Porter's business vision as a foundation and ensures that technology is continually aligned and optimised for the company's success.

They define and maintain an enterprise architecture that is tailored to Porter's business objectives, drivers, goals, and principles.

The Director, Architecture will lead a team of architects that ensure that all technology systems and solutions satisfy the business needs and requirements, align to the target architecture, and emphasise simplicity, stability and continuous improvement.

The Director, Architecture and his team establish and maintain frameworks and processes that ensure that developed solutions are simple, robust, follow best practices and conform to the defined architectures through full-lifecycle support and governance, fostering consistency through the effective use of reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Lead the practice areas for Business, Application, Integration, Information, Technology and Security Architecture
Evangelise the practice of architecture at Porter and foster an understanding of how architecture helps the organisation make optimal use of technology to achieve its goals
Identify and analyze business drivers to contribute to and develop enterprise architecture requirements
Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders, ensuring an understanding of their needs, goals and drivers
Ensure, through the use of modeling, documentation and education, that the architecture is accurately and directly linked to business models and processes
Work with business leaders to create architectures that align business and data needs with Target State Architecture
Own the architecture of the organisation, ensuring that solutions are aligned to the target enterprise architecture, reduce technical debt, and foster the continuous improvement of Porter's technology ecosystem
Prepare and deliver briefings for IT and Business leadership on the health of their architecture portfolio, the roadmap, trends in technology
Ensure architecture oversight and governance is applied across all phases of the solution lifecycle
Lead the definition and development of architecture and technology best practices
Ensure that architectural solutions have endtoend integrity, with implications well understood and risks mitigated
Translate highlevel concepts and requirements into intuitive, highly functional, and visually impactful digital products across existing and emerging technology platforms
Play a key role in new initiatives by participating in stakeholder meetings to help define product requirements that best achieves business goals
Participate and support review of RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, to architect and propose endtoend infrastructure and platform engineered solutions
Actively participates in Porter's Safety Management System (SMS) including reporting hazards and incidents encountered in daily operations; understands and promotes the Company's Safety Policy

Behavioural Competencies:

Concern for Safety:
Identifying hazardous or potentially hazardous situations and taking appropriate action to maintain a safe environment for self and others

Teamwork:

Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals

Passenger/Customer Service:

Providing service excellence to internal and/or external customers (passengers)

Initiative:

Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise

Results Focus:

Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent with the organization's standards

Fostering Communication:

Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus

Exemplifying Integrity:

Treating others fairly, honestly, and respectfully, furthering the integrity of the organization and its relationships of trust with team members and the broader community

Inspiring Others:

Energizing and inspiring others to strive for excellence and commit to common goals and purposes, creating a sense of self-efficacy, resilience, and persistence in followers

People Leadership:

Assuming a leadership role in helping others achieve excellent results

Leading Change:

Recognizing the need for change, being open to new ideas and methods, and championing transformational change within the organization and beyond.

Qualifications:

Experience:

15+ years operating in a formal architecture role
8+ years of management of technology teams
Experience with establishing and maintaining architectural governance
Experience developing and/or maintaining an enterprise reference architecture and standards
Experienced in multiple software delivery methodologi