Manager Enterprise Architecture chez Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board

Manager Enterprise Architect

Permanent Appointment

Regina or Saskatoon

Job Summary:

The key responsibilities for this position are to manage the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice, formulate EA strategy and guide execution, facilitate innovation, build and maintain relationships, orchestrate the delivery of business outcomes and support the management of the IT technology portfolio. 

You will focus on understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models.   You are responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives the organization chooses to invest in.

The successful candidate is responsible for leading and managing the EA practice. This includes the organizational design, management and day-to-day running of the EA practice as an internal management consultancy that offers a portfolio of services to business leaders and enterprise stakeholders. You are responsible for defining the advisory process, EA process, and architecture review and governance, and for leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT functions and processes.

The Manager, EA plans and manages directly or indirectly a talent pool of domain architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization. You recruit, build and motivate the EA team, empowering domain architects, with coaching and mentoring to build a creative and safe learning environment. You develop the skills and competencies of the EA team; in particular, building the business and behavioral competencies needed to support internal management consulting.

The Manager, EA should be highly collaborative, vendor and technology neutral and interested in achieving targeted business outcomes.  The focus of this position is using architecture to provide value for WCB customers (injured workers and employers) and partners. This position reports to the Director, Application Services and is part of the ITS Management Team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Manage the EA Practice

• Leads the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice. Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation, which drives the organizations top and bottom lines.

• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.  Leads the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy.

Formulate EA Strategy and Guide Execution

• Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. Formulates, translates, advocates, supports and executes business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes.

• Supports 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. Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues. Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

Facilitate Innovation

• Contextualizes technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.  Scans for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. Provides practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

• Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and use agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.  Runs technology experiments to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.

Build and Maintain Relationships

• Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen. 

• Supports and facilitates interaction with business leaders, project/product managers and product owners/business managers in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product or technology decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.

• Builds the EA practice to become an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy. Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.

• Works as part of the IT Leadership team to continually improve delivery of services through the coaching and development of team members in continuous process improvement methodologies. 

Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Works with the Director, Application Services and IT leadership team to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures the EA practice is designed and enabled to help formulate, translate and execute business strategy.

•  Ensures the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources who are empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.

• Leads or supports analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business forward. 

• Ensures the role of EA in the project and product governance setting is one of guidance, advice and oversight. Helps the enterprise find the right balance between enterprise risk and agility. Steps up and communicates key EA positions to business and IT leaders to get buy-in and mandate.

Plan and Manage the IT Technology Portfolio

• Leads or supports analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.  Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, 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 teams. 

• Develops and applies standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.

• Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture. Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement, ongoing refinement activities and the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.

   

Qualifications:

In addition to the following Behavioral & Technical Qualifications (Competencies) the following Education, Experience, Designations/Licenses are job requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study combined with a minimum of 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including enterprise architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, solution and integration development and infrastructure planning and operations. 

• Enterprise Architecture related training. TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certification plus any other Microsoft, Unix, AIX, Oracle certifications

 An equivalent combination of education and experience that result in the required level of knowledge, skill and competence, may be considered.

Skills:

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Strong leadership skills.  Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation. Excellent analytical, technical, planning and organizational skills.

• Ability to build consensus and engage the organization as a whole, be a recognized leader that can be established as a trusted/influential partner to the business.

• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture. 

• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture. Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.  Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories

Applications:

It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is received through the online application system prior to close. Each application must include a cover letter explaining how each qualification is met and an updated resume.

The Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board is committed to achieving a representative workforce. Members of designated groups (women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities and visible minorities) are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: September 28, 2025

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