Sr. Manager of Enterprise Architecture to guide executives through transformation and optimization initiatives and formulate business strategies for our Na

Sr. Manager of Enterprise Architecture to guide executives through transformation and optimization initiatives and formulate business strategies for our Natural Resources Client.

Location: Pickering, ON (5-days on-site)

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, the Senior Manager of Enterprise Architecture is accountable to proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise executives through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The business architect’s scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an environment where you will contribute to our clients public outreach, engagement, and education efforts as part of the company’s commitment to growing its social license.

Must have skills:

• 10+ years in specialized enterprise architecture and solution architecture experience enabling large scale business transformations
• Experience developing strategy and managing network and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Experience with various enterprise tools (ERP, CRM, WHS, HCM. MES) and Cloud Technologies (Azure)
• Knowledge of business ecosystems (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, predictive analytics)

Nice to have skills:

• 4+ years of University education in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Information Systems, or related discipline; M.B.A. is an asset
• Experience working in large/complex organizations in a Utility, Industrial or similar sector
• Experience with driving industry 4.0 initiatives

Key Accountabilities:

• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of business strategy.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.
• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery.
• Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
• Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.