Intact Hiring for Enterprise Architect, Specialist at Vancouver, BC Full Time

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About the role

The Enterprise Architecture team is as essential part of the IT organization with the mandate to ensure across-organization alignment with business and IT strategies. We are hiring highly innovative, diverse talent that fully embraces and embodies our core values in everything they do: Customer Focus, Equity, Shared Ambition, Agility, Transparency, Optimism to cover the following business areas:

Finance

Information and Data

Digital

Specialty Lines

Claims

Reinsurance

General Enterprise Architecture

We are looking for forward thinker who will influence the business and IT strategies, thoroughly understand business and IT architecture, contribute to technology, product and vendor selection, and promote the company values.

You will be:
The architect (for one of the above) responsible for the strategic and tactical management of a federated Enterprise Architecture function, that covers the IFC portfolio

The architect for cross-program, and cross-project architecture strategies and initiatives, finding problems, opportunities, and solutions.

The consultant in business process analysis and design, the guide in trends and directions with respect to the use of systems, technology and information.

The trusted advisor to IT and the business stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities:
Contribute to the creation and improvement of the enterprise architecture practices, processes, governance and compliance.

Establishes overall direction and strategic initiatives for a Global Enterprise Architecture guided by the overall Business and IT strategy

Define and maintain governance and compliance standards and policies.

Execute based on of the Enterprise Architecture processes.

Create, update and maintain architecture models, roadmaps and strategies.

Lead risk and cost analysis including build vs. buy strategies and recommendations.

Lead analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

Contribute to the definition and evolution of global IT architecture based on long-term business strategy considering the diversity of Intact activities, the need for compliance to information Security requirements, the long-term business plan scenarios, the obsolescence of mission critical applications and the evolution of IT solutions offerings from various sources.

Capture current state Architecture and establish future state Architecture vision for each domain, supporting the Business and IT strategy and vision.

Develop roadmaps for each domain to achieve this future state.

Utilize this roadmap as the basis to review and approve all Project designs, at the Design gate state of the Project lifecycle.

Understand, advocate and promote the Enterprise Architecture vision and value proposition within the IT and business community.

Lead and facilitate research and assessment of new approaches and technologies for potential use within the organization.

Lead and facilitate the creation and evolution of architecture principles to support decision-making.

Contribute to the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture.

Drive the Architecture review of all proposed programs as part of the yearly planning process.

Propose Architecture driven programs that actively achieve the Architecture goals of simplifying complexity, reducing redundancy and duplications, and leveraging the leading edge of technology innovations.

Consults with project teams to align projects to enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.

Consult with infrastructure teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.

Review and ensure the soundness of the proposed solutions of all major projects and its alignment with enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

You bring excellent technical, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills along with strong leadership abilities. In addition to analytical skills, the Enterprise Architect should possess a broad experience in different technologies and practices including architecture, software engineering, security, infrastructure.

Who you are :
Thoughtful leadership with excellent negotiation and influential skills.

A balanced mix of technical and business skills, as you will often work with business and technical leaders across the organization.

Architectural leadership in resolution of program and projects issues.

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

Deep understanding of technology and solution architecture.

Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.

Ability to translate business needs into EA requirements.

Expert knowledge of EA processes and frameworks.

Ability to effectively communicate at technical and executive levels.

Business process and trends analysis and design.

Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives

Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.

Experience working within an agile organization.

Contribute to improvement of architecture and agile teams collaboration.

What you bring :
Business value driven person with positive organization-wide outcome mind.

A team player and a technical mentor.

Sharing Intact’s values: integrity, respect, customer driven, excellence, and generosity.

Utilize this roadmap as the basis to review and approve all Project designs, at the Design gate state of the Project lifecycle.

Actively participate in all strategic programs and guide its design, in line with the Architecture principles.

Work with the functional leadership to review all project implementation to ensure that it met the original design that was approved in the Architecture described through assets such as architecture decisions, high-level architecture designs, details architecture designs.

Drive the Architecture review of all proposed programs as part of the yearly planning process.

Propose Architecture driven programs that actively achieve the Architecture goals of simplifying complexity, reducing redundancy and duplications, and leveraging the leading edge of technology innovations.

Serve as an internal spokesperson for Enterprise Architecture on significant matters

Comfortable working in a constantly evolving technological environment.

Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices, trends and transformation.

Experience in defining global enterprise architecture.

Experience in establishing and chairing IFC architecture forums.

Experience in providing leadership on Technologic innovation in an enterprise.

Experience in working closely with IT PMO.

Experience in vendor management, contracts and capacity planning in a hyper growth environment

Experience with mergers & acquisitions and the integration of acquired businesses

Knowledgeable in IT solutions, trends in IT and experience evaluating/implementing new tools and solutions

Experience in the business/system/solution architecture.

Excellent presentation skills.

Excellent and effective communication, both verbal and written.

Possess a bachelor’s degree in information technology or business administration.

Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals.

Experience with cloud architecture is an asset

Enterprise Architecture certification is an asset

Certification in TOGAF considered an asset.

Familiarity with information management practices.

Familiarity with the IT application development life cycle.

10+ years in information technology.

5+ years in IT strategic planning, enterprise, solution or business architecture.

2+ years hand-on experience within Enterprise

Here are a few reasons why others have joined our team:
An award-winning, inspiring workplace that supports its people and recognizes great work

Stimulating, challenging projects and development opportunities to help you grow your skills and career

A comprehensive financial rewards program that recognizes your success

An extensive, flexible benefits package

An industry leading Employee Share Purchase Plan where we match 50% of net shares purchased

A $350 annual wellness account that promotes an active lifestyle

Closing Statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Intact, our value of Respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength, being inclusive and fostering collaboration. We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive, accessible workplace where all individuals feel valued, respected and heard.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies are available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please advise the Talent Acquisition partner who reaches out about the job opportunity and they will work with you to meet your needs.

Background Checks

As an employer and publicly traded financial services company, the best interests of our customers, employees and shareholders are important to us. We want Intact to be a great place to work! This means that internal and external candidates will be asked to consent to background checks so we can learn more about you. Please note that for positions with access to financial data or funds, your credit must be in good standing.

Internal Candidates

For internal candidates, you can apply for a posted position if you have been in your current position for at least 12 months and are performing at a satisfactory level. Please note we may have identified other internal candidates through our Employee Development Program, and that the selection process may also be opened to external applicants.

Eligibility to Work in Canada

It’s important that you are legally eligible to work in Canada at the time an offer of employment is made. You may be requested to provide proof of eligibility at that time.

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