Senior Architect

Senior Architect

Who We Are

Teranet is Canadas leader in the delivery and transformation of statutory registry services with extensive expertise in land and commercial registries. We also market insightful property and data solutions as well as practice management automation to thousands of customers in the real estate financial services government utilities and legal markets.

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About the Role

Reporting to the Director Commercial Solutions of IT the Senior Architect is focused on driving innovation and improving delivery effectiveness. You will assume the full technical ownership of the end-to-end solution help the organization make informed choices in the evolution of our architecture increases the degree on integration and re-use between our various registry jurisdictions help the organization mature its architecture practices and makes progress along the IT Strategic Roadmap

The Senior Architect is focused on ensuring that the technology strategy delivering the expected business benefits within the budget aligning with Business and Corporate Strategic Initiatives

Areas of focus is on integration/interoperability Cloud Services optimization looking to leverage AI as well as designing application software.

• Developing and advocating a strategy around the usage of platforms technologies tools capacity methodologies and frameworks.

• Understanding business needs of the program helping define functional and non-functional requirements identifying and assessing risks and providing development cost estimates.

• Reviewing design and code from software designers and developers.

• Guiding/coaching software engineers on resolving complex issues and recommending solutions to architectural related issues.

• Providing leadership to solutions architect and software engineers around technical and operational excellence security compliance standards and methodologies.

• Working with other architects and teams and aligning tools and processes.

• Helping the organization make good choices in the evolution of our architecture.

• Helping the organization make progress along our IT Strategic Roadmap.

What Youll Be Doing

Project Architecture Design and Development:

• Maintain and modernize the Search and registration of both our Land and Personal Property registries. As well as our backend workflow engine for the Land Title System

• Working with Teranets other registries and central services teams to understand and implement a modern composable architecture to be leverage across all of Teranet.

• As strategic partners documenting and communicating the Teranet Manitoba systems architecture to stakeholders in IT business and government.

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for the work occurring within the modernization project.

• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the why and articulate several options the pros and cons for each and a recommendation.

• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends technology etc.

• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.

• Managing vendors & consultants involved in evaluation or implementation activities.

Consultation:

• Drive scope definition requirements analysis functional and technical design application build product configuration unit testing and production deployment

• Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.

• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.

• Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.

• Provide support and technical governance expertise related to cloud architectures deployment and operations.

Thought Leadership:

• Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.

• Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.

• Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective including internal and external platforms tools and systems.

Mentoring:

• Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks.

• Develop a cohesive team and ensure their continued success.

• Lead the definition and development of cloud reference architecture and management systems.

• Conduct product work reviews with team members.

About You

• Education

  • Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline & 10 years of experience working in the IT field

  • Masters degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline & 7 years of experience working in the IT field

• 5-7 years of experience in architecting or designing solutions preferably in a mid to large organization working on mission critical applications

• Experience with large scale multi-year application development and re-platforming projects

• B2B and B2C experience

• Knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS networking storage security multi-tenancy virtualization orchestration elastic scalability)

• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes

• Understanding of information security technology and best-practices

• Ability to articulate and understand a financial business case

Why Teranet

We may be a global innovator in electronic services and solutions who operate one of the most advanced and secure registration systems in the world but were so much more than that!

Our Extraordinary People.

Together we are passionate driven resourceful and authentic. We continue to thrive because of our people and their powerful ideas strong team spirit can-do attitude and unwavering dedication to our business and our clients.

Growth Opportunities.

Our people are smart ambitious and have big career goals. We not only encourage a culture of openly talking about our career aspirations but one where we truly invest in the continuous learning development and growth of our people.

Our Work Environment.

Lets face it. We spend a lot of our time working so the atmosphere is everything! We believe in cultivating a work environment that makes our people feel comfortable engaged appreciated and happy.

Company Culture & Core Values.

Our company culture and core values are the core of our identity. They define who we are how we engage with each other and our clients and how we conduct business every day.

What We Offer

• Market-competitive pay structures

• Paid Vacation & Sick Leaves

• Maternity Parental and/or Adoption Leave Top-Up Program

• 100% Employer-Paid Health Benefit Plan

• Retirement Savings Plans with Employer Matching Scheme

• Ongoing Financial Wellness Seminars

• Corporate Discounted Programs Wellness Program

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for our employees and their families!

At Teranet we are committed to fostering an inclusive accessible environment where all employees and customers feel valued respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we live and serve. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Come As You Are. We Like You that Way!