Director, Solution Architecture

We are banking at another level.

Choosing BDC as your employer means working in a healthy inclusive and skilled workplace that puts forward the best conditions to bring together unique teams where employees are empowered to act. It also means being at the centre of ambitious economic and financial projects to see further and to do things differently to fuel the success of Canadian entrepreneurs.

Choosing BDC as your employer also means:

• Flexible and competitive benefits including an Employee Savings and Investment Plan where BDC matches part of your voluntary contributions a Defined Benefit Pension Plan a $750 wellness and health care spending account to name a few

• In addition to paid vacation each year five personal days sick days as necessary and our offices are closed from December 25 to January 1

• A hybrid work model that truly balances work and personal life

• Opportunities for learning training and development and much more...

Explore the BDC Way in our Culture Book

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Director of solution architecture provides strategic leadership to accelerate technology integration and platform modernization by enabling teams with clear guardrails reusable patterns and automated governance. Rather than acting solely as a centralized control point this role operates as an enterprise-wide architecture force multiplierempowering product (domain) and platform teams to deliver safely at speed while converging on a cohesive target-state.

A critical focus is the integration of capabilities into the Banks core and digital ecosystem establishing repeatable integration playbooks canonical interfaces and transition states that reduce risk while increasing time-to-value and synergy. The Senior Director drives measurable outcomesfaster delivery cycles reduced complexity and improved resiliency.

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

Lead a team of solutions and domain architect to:

• Build and maintain an enterprise capability model and value-stream maps to anchor integration decisionsmapping capabilities to applications data domains and owners; identifying overlaps/gaps; and using this model to prioritize platform convergence sequencing and investment decisions.
• Drive platform rationalization decisions identifying redundant systems and recommending pathways to reduce complexity and operational cost.
• Establish architectural guardrails standards nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) and design principles that govern crossfunctional decisionmaking.
• Operationalize architecture as code by embedding standards and NFRs into pipelines reference implementations reusable templates and automated checks (e.g. security resilience data controls) enabling self-service delivery at scale with consistent outcomes.
• Deliver architecture artefacts and manage the architectural risk register to ensure stability resilience performance and security requirements for projects are met.
• Collaborate with Lines of business Data Cybersecurity Infrastructure and PMO teams to align design choices.
• Oversees projects architecture deliverables to ensure alignment with required timelines and architectural tradeoffs are presented to senior executives with clear business cost risk and timeline implications.
• Ensure all architecture activities support synergy goals operational readiness and longterm scalability.

Driving Transformation and Integration

• Lead enterprisewide architecture integration for core banking digital channels marketing financing risk systems and supporting platforms.
• Govern architecture for project delivery system cutovers cloud migrations and infrastructure consolidation.
• Lead the evolution of the architecture practice through creation of artifacts transition maps and decision records that drive clarity across teams.

Team performance

• Partner closely with senior leaders across Lines of business Technology Data Infrastructure Cybersecurity and PMO.
• Provide leadership to solution architects technical leads and integration consultants throughout programs projects and initiatives
• Mentor and grow a high-performing architecture by coaching on pragmatic frameworks just-enough governance and modern tooling (reference architectures templates decision records) raising overall architecture maturity and delivery throughput.
• Lead the operating model for architecture across internal teams integration partners and vendorsdriving decision velocity dependency clarity and shared delivery standards with focus on continuous evolution and improvement.
• Lead the development reporting and continuous improvement of architecture KPI metrics.
• Responsible for team budget management.
• Act as single point of entry for audit relationship third-party risk management (TPRM) project and ad-hoc initiatives
• Responsible for solution architecture demand management and team capacity to align with required timelines.
• Responsible for consultants hiring.
  
  

REQUIRED QUAIFICATIONS

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Architecture or a related discipline.
• 10 years of banking experience and 5-10 years in enterprise architecture gained within financial services or consulting environments.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype and operationalize architecture decisionsusing spike solutions reference implementations and experimentation to quickly test assumptions quantify trade-offs and inform executive decisions in fast-moving integration programs.
• Expertise across architecture domains such as cloud data analytics APIs/integration security infrastructure digital channels and core banking platforms.
• Strong understanding of NFRs including reliability performance scalability disaster recovery and security.
• Ability to design and govern complex multiplatform ecosystems.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to simplify complexity and influence senior decisionmakers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead mentor and develop architectsbuilding shared standards improving architectural decision quality and scaling consistent practices across a federated organization.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to facilitate crossfunctional alignment.
• Bilingualism - communicate in both French and English.
• Strategic mindset paired with operational awareness.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Architecture certifications such as TOGAF SAFe Architect or cloud architecture certifications are an asset.

Proudly one of Canadas Top 100 Employers and one of Canadas Best Diversity Employers we are committed to fostering a diverse equitable inclusive and accessible environment where all employees can thrive and feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. If you require an accommodation to complete your application please do not hesitate to contact us at .

While we appreciate all applications we advise that only the candidates selected to participate in the recruitment process will be contacted.