Senior Manager, IT Architecture

About Toronto Community Housing Corporation

 

Toronto Community Housing Corporation (“TCHC”) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. TCHC provides homes to over 41,000 low and moderate-income households in 88 of Toronto's neighbourhoods, with 93,000 tenants from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical ability, religion, ethnicity and race. We are an essential part of the City of Toronto's fabric and social system. 

 

Our over 2,000 employees work to achieve our vision of quality homes in vibrant communities where people are proud to live and work.

 

Vacancy Type:	Full-time Permanent
Salary/Hourly Range:	$142,987 – $157,285
Work Details (Days/Hours):	Monday – Friday 36.25 hours per week
Hybrid Eligible	Yes
Affiliation:	Non-Union: Management/Exempt
Division and Department	ITS - Information and Technology Services
Location:	729 Petrolia Road, Toronto
Number of Vacancies:	1
Existing/New Job:	Existing
Grade:	09
Vacancy Status	Existing Vacancy
Candidate List or Eligibility List:	Candidate List

 

What we offer

In addition to a competitive salary and a rewarding career where you can truly make a difference, we offer a comprehensive package that meets the various needs of our diverse employees, including:

• Ability to participate in inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities;
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;
• Four (4) paid personal days;
• Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching;
• Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date;
• Employee and family assistance program;
• Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary);
• Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year.
• Fitness membership discount;
• Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.

Make a difference

The Senior Manager of IT Architecture is responsible for leading a team of permanent, temporary, contract, and vendor-provided architecture resources. This role involves providing team management, architecture delivery, strategy, and business engagement. The Senior Manager will establish standards and technologies for digital solutions, translate client requirements into valuable solutions, and facilitate the architecture review board process.

What you’ll do

People Management:

• Manage staff performance, employee engagement, workload balancing, and coordination of efforts among staff specialties.
• Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to team members.
• Provide architecture and solution leadership, mentoring, and expertise to the team and other delivery teams.

Architecture Delivery:

• Develop new IT standards and processes based on industry best practices.
• Ensure enterprise application architecture and associated standards, policies, and guidelines are maintained.
• Collaborate extensively with infrastructure and data architects, IT security and risk teams, and division owners to align enterprise solutions with business needs and strategy.

Strategy & Innovation:

• Provide thought leadership on the development of IT roadmaps for specific business capabilities.
• Develop the vision for a target state IT architecture.
• Propose and implement industry best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Research and recommend new solutions, applications, or versions best suited to support the business.

Services Enablement:

• Understand key client needs and provide solutions with compelling value propositions that align with the organization's capabilities.
• Identify and drive opportunities for business process improvements and redesign.
• Prepare high-level estimates for projects.
• Work as a technical mentor to deliver necessary training and guidance to the entire IT team.

Project Management:

• Act as Project Manager for key architecture projects with diverse team members and stakeholders.
• Prepare briefing notes and status updates/reports for Corporate Affairs, Audit Committee, ELT, and other stakeholders.
• Collect information, evaluate client requirements, develop budgets and implementation plans, and optimize SLAs and costs.

What you’ll need

• University degree in computer science, engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad and deep architecture experience.
• Leadership experience in the development and implementation of architecture for business, application, integration, security, information, technology, implementation, and migration.
• Extensive experience with multiple computing platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages, and communication protocols.
• TOGAF, Archimate, or similar certification and training are assets; ITIL Foundation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal, consensus-building, and negotiation skills.
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables and specifications for RFPs.
• Awareness of emerging IT trends and directions.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals.

What’s next

Once you apply, we’ll review your resume and cover letter to determine if your skills and experience match the qualifications for the role. Only qualified candidates will be contacted to move forward in the hiring process. If you are contacted, the process will include an interview, written/practical test, and reference check. 

 

INDS

 

Thank you for your interest in Toronto Community Housing

 

We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve included in the job postings below, we encourage you to consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key!

 

Once you have submitted your application successfully, you will receive a confirmation email.  We encourage you to check out our careers page often, as new opportunities become available on a regular basis. 

 

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

 

We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the cultural mosaic of our great city and the communities we serve. We recognize the value that comes from different viewpoints, unique experiences and diverse perspectives of our employees, who bring fresh, new ideas to our business. Diversity plays a key role in our ability to deliver on our mission to provide clean, safe, well-maintained, affordable homes for tenants.

 

TCHC is committed to diversity and inclusion within its community and encourages applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and others who can help us provide vibrant communities and make our city a great place to live.  In an effort to ensure access to information for people with disabilities, we have noticed that some screen readers do not function properly with our job portal. If you are a person with a disability and are experiencing issues with our job portal and would like access to our job postings in an alternative format, please email your request to our People and Culture Division at [email protected].

 

Accessibility for applicants

 

Toronto Community Housing is committed to equity in employment. Our goal is a diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace that reflects the communities we serve.

We will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities at all stages of the hiring process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and Toronto Community Housing’s Accessibility Policy. 

 

If you are a person with a disability and need the job posting in an alternative format or any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, please email your request to our People & Culture department at [email protected] or call our accessible accommodations line at (416) 981 - 4119. Please refer to the job requisition number when you contact us.

 

We use AI technology through the use of pre-screening questions to assist in the screening process.