Enterprise Architect

Job ID : 9731

Employment Type : Existing Role

Working Business Language : English. This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal and external stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language for this role is English. As such, the successful candidate must be fully proficient in English.

Salary : At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan.

The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to : your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range : $140,000 - $190,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.

About Us

At Wawanesa, we offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations : Winnipeg, MB; Wawanesa, MB; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Toronto (North York), ON; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; Quebec City, QC, Moncton, NB; Dartmouth; NS.

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (“Wawanesa Mutual”), founded in 1896, is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual, with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada, and we are home to more than 3,300 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations, including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. We are also proud to be recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers. To learn more visit wawanesa.com.

We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

Job Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the optimization and governance of technology investments that support Wawanesa’s corporate strategies and service priorities. Operating as a strategic leader and trusted advisor, the Enterprise Architect defines the architectural vision, principles, and standards shaping and governing the overall Technology landscape. The Enterprise Architect provides direct leadership to Domain and Technology Architects, guiding their work, coaching their development, and ensuring architectural decisions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned to enterprise strategy. The role champions responsible technology adoption, partners closely with business and technology leaders, and elevates architectural maturity, enabling Wawanesa to deliver with speed, quality and scale.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and support the execution of the Information & Technology strategy to maintain alignment technology investments with Wawanesa’s strategies and priorities.
• Define, publish, and maintain enterprise architecture guiding principles, reference architectures, patterns, and standards; ensure adoption through effective governance.
• Maintain a holistic view of enterprise business capabilities, application and technology portfolios, and their relationships, using capability models, architecture repositories, and multi-horizon roadmaps.
• Lead portfolio transformation by identifying critical deficiencies, rationalizing technologies, reducing technical debt, and driving standardization across platforms.
• Operate and evolve architecture governance forums (e.g., Technology Review Board, Architecture Review Board and Architecture Working Group), ensuring consistent decision making process and traceability.
• Partner with Technology teams to guide solution architecture, integration, and data flows that enable end-to-end capabilities.
• Lead the governance of technology introduction and where necessary support build‑buy‑partner analyses and vendor evaluations, negotiating architectural trade‑offs, total cost of ownership, and value realization
• Support technology risk governance and compliance processes.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences and drive consensus without formal authority.
• Directly lead Domain and Technology Architects set goals and OKRs, assign work, provide ongoing coaching, deliver formal performance reviews, manage compensation, and build succession and workforce plans.
• Recruit and onboard architecture talent, create learning paths, mentorship, and communities of practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including racialized persons, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals, and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.

We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out in confidence to jobs@wawanesa.com.

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