Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture

What is the opportunity?

As the Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, you will provide architectural leadership to design and deliver scalable, high performing Enterprise Architecture solutions, and governance services, aligned with business objectives and fostering cross functional collaboration for impactful outcomes. Leads application architecture projects of significant complexity, applying advanced expertise and knowledge to deliver impactful discipline.

What will you do?

• Enterprise Architecture Board: Coordinate board meetings end to end, including agendas, submission intake, pre-reads, minutes, decisions, and action tracking. Maintain the decision log and follow up on conditions and exceptions.
• Architect support: Collaborate with chief and solution architects to gather requirements, analyze options, prepare materials, and turn technical discussions into clear artifacts for stakeholders. Work with users to support and support product optimization initiatives
• Projects and initiatives: Support EA projects such as capability mapping, application portfolio rationalization, technology standards, and roadmaps. Track milestones, risks, and dependencies. Support project delivery initiatives as required
• Enterprise tooling and platforms: Support the EA platforms, including Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Architecture Solution Governance tools. Drive user adoption through onboarding, training, guidance, and user support. Ensure platform governance works effectively end to end, including data quality, ownership, access, workflows, and regular reporting on usage and compliance.
• Insights and reporting: Deliver value to the Enterprise community by building and contributing to automated dashboards, insights, and metrics reporting on the architecture landscape, governance outcomes, and platform adoption.
• Automation and technology development: Identify opportunities to automate manual EA and governance tasks, and build solutions such as workflows, integrations, scripts, and data pipelines that connect EA platforms with other Enterprise systems.
• Process optimization and controls: Map and improve architecture governance processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and support internal controls, audit requests, and compliance evidence.
• Documentation: Maintain applicable EA repositories including standards, principles, patterns, reference architectures, and process documentation, so it stays accurate, versioned, and easy to find.

 

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 5-7 yrs of experience, IT Risk, governance experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Business analysis experience in a technical environment
• Strong communication skills: written, spoken
• Ability to influence

Nice-to-have: 

• Certifications: TOGAF, COBIT, CRISC, CISA
• AI: Experience and ability using AI technologies including code generation
• Business case writing

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

 

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Job Skills

Applications Architecture, Application Security, Cloud Computing, Critical Thinking, Data Architecture Development, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Industry Knowledge, Multi-Level Communication

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-10-202026-11-30

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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