Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Commercial Technology Services

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Why Colliers

As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people clients and communities.

A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact advance your career and collaborate with top-tier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists including Best Workplaces in Canada Best Workplaces for Women Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams among others.

Accelerate your success at Colliers.

Onsite Role Toronto Ontario

Why Colliers

As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people clients and communities. A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact advance your career and collaborate with top-tier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists including 2024s Best Workplaces in Canada Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams and Best Workplaces for Inclusion among others.

About the role:

We are hiring a Senior Director Portfolio Architect to serve as the strategic bridge between our business vision and technology this role you will align our Commercial Technology Services portfolio with our long-term business strategy unlocking significant value by rationalizing a complex global ecosystem into a powerful efficient engine for growth.

As the architectural steward for our front-office technology you will be accountable for lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) eliminating redundancy and ensuring every digital investmentwhether built or boughtdirectly supports our commercial teams in driving profitability and market leadership. You will serve as a senior advisor to Commercial and Product leadership guiding the transition from a fragmented landscape to a unified high-value portfolio.

• Evaluate the current state of the global Real Estate Services application landscape to identify redundancies shadow IT and inefficiencies.

• Drive the strategy to retire retain or re-platform assets achieving a measurable reduction in redundant applications and lowering portfolio TCO.

• Create and maintain the Business Capability Map for Services ensuring technology investments fill critical capability gaps rather than just adding isolated features.

• Partner with Product Management to translate business vision into a multi-year architectural roadmap ensuring 100% of major investments link to defined business capabilities and growth targets.

• Ensure the product roadmap is technically viable and aligned with enterprise standards accelerating time-to-value by advocating for the reuse of shared enterprise capabilities.

• Guide hands-on Solution Architects in producing detailed architecture and designs for globally scalable digital products ensuring technical excellence and operational feasibility.

• Govern solution delivery by reviewing and approving designs to ensure strict alignment with strategy standards reference architectures and reusable patterns.

• Ensure all commercial solutions leverage the foundational building blocks produced by the Cloud (e.g. GCP landing zones platform engineering) and Data & AI Architecture (e.g. Gemini capabilities Dataplex catalog) domains to avoid duplication and maximize value.

• Lead the Buy-vs-Build decision process: rigorously evaluating SaaS vendors against internal development based on strategic value fit and cost.

• Guide the selection of strategic platforms that can scale globally across regions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Commercial Leadership and Regional CEOs translating architectural health into business terms (risk speed margin).

• Bridge the gap between Business Strategy and the technical delivery teams (Solution Architects/Engineering) providing clear functional direction.

• Monitor Prop Tech trends specifically in Real Estate Services (e.g. AI in leasing automated valuation models).

What you bring:

• 12 years of experience in technology with at least 5 years in Product Architecture Business Architecture or Portfolio Management roles.

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering Information Systems Business Administration or a related field

• A proven track record of rationalizing complex portfolios reducing application counts and lowering TCO in a large global enterprise.

• Deep experience leading Buy-vs-Build evaluations and managing technology investment governance

• Strong familiarity with Commercial Real Estate Services (Leasing Capital Markets) or a closely related professional services industry.

• Experience working in a product-led organization partnering closely with Product Managers and Business Leaders.

• Ability to model CapEx/OpEx implications of technology choices and optimize portfolio ROI

• You think in terms of Revenue Margin and TCO not just API Cloud and Code.

• Collaborates effectively across North America EMEA and APAC time zones to drive unified outcome

Pursuant to the laws regarding job postings where the position is Colliers disclosing the following information:

Area/Location Specific: Hybrid Toronto ON or Vancouver BC

Approximate Salary Range for Role: $157500 to $175000 CAD.

Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all Canada locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Colliers does not use AI-enabled tools to sort or decline applications. All decisions are made by our talent acquisition team.

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