Job Specifications
Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled Systems Architect V to join our client.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting from $80 per hour
Location: Toronto or Waterloo, Ontario
Location Type: Hybrid: onsite 3 days a week
Business Hours: Mon-Fri, 9:00 – 5:00
Job Responsibilities:
Engage with business leaders to understand business strategies, objectives and key results, drive complex business transformations, execute capability and value stream assessments to address end-to-end business and technology impacts, and ensure on-going alignment between strategy and execution.
Drive innovation and transformation for foundational capabilities to maximize value add through process standardization and technology re-use. Identify common business and solution patterns; partner with technology teams to build out and govern reference architectures.
Develop an integrated view of organization’s business architecture to support capability, value stream or customer journey assessments and to define and govern outcome-based transformation roadmaps.
Keep abreast with latest technology developments, industry/market trends, execute competitive research to identify technology innovation opportunities that can optimize or overhaul our business model.
Drive and facilitate product/vendor direction and integrate new technologies from an architectural perspective within the business environment, while optimizing costs and mitigating risks.
Contribute to meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time, within budget, and adhering to relevant standards.
Experience & Qualification Requirements:
A degree in business management, marketing, finance or technology
Minimum of 10 years' experience in progressing transformation roles in business and technology domains
Ability to successfully drive complex, cross-functional business and technology transformations, with multiple stakeholders and potential conflicting agendas
Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies and work effectively at all levels of an organization to influence others to move toward consensus
Ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business, while applying equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
Experience with capability, value stream and customer experience assessments, SWOT analysis, definition, and governance of outcome-based transformation roadmaps
Experience using model-based representations and business architecture blueprints, that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
****ALL CANDIDATES MUST COMPLETE A CRIMINAL AND CREDIT CHECK AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS****
How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
Robertson & the clients we represent are equal opportunity employers, committed to diversity and inclusion. Robertson is a certified diverse supplier and actively seeks to foster a representative and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, Aboriginal status, or any other legally protected factors. We champion building a diverse and inclusive environment.
About the Company
Robertson & Company Ltd. is a leading professional services firm providing recruitment-related, advisory and consulting services to corporations, professional organizations, governments, and public & private institutions.
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