Senior Solutions Architect

Why Keyera?

It’s our purpose-driven culture, benefits, and people. From flexible, customizable benefits and an employer-funded pension plan to our Keyera Connects social investment program and paid employee volunteer days, we’re focused on empowering our people and communities.

When you work with us, you'll enjoy:

Flexible Benefits to meet your individual and family needs, including

• $3,500 plus 4.5% of base salary each year to customize your benefits and investments

• Saving plan options, including an Employee Share Purchase Plan, RRSP, and TFSA

• Defined Contribution Pension Plan funded by Keyera up to 10% of base salary

• Wellness Personal Spending Account of $750 per year to cover wellness expenses

Paid vacation and eight flex days each year

• Two paid volunteer days each year to support the causes that are most important to you

• Employee Family Assistance Program with a variety of support resources from professional counselling to financial planning support and more.

Role/Location Specific

• Keyera’s Northern Allowance is a tiered incentive program based on years of service, currently offered to employees working at the following locations: Grande Prairie Office, Wapiti, Simonette, Gold Creek, South Cheecham, and Fox Creek Terminal. This information reflects the current state of the program and may be subject to change over time.

Please note that compensation and benefits may be different based on the work location, position, and a candidate's experience and qualifications.

THE POSITION

The Senior Solutions Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. The solution architect will provide a broad range of services to the teams from supporting product strategy to providing guidance on individual architecture decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Scope of Activities

The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:

1. Interpret Business Needs

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work

• Works closely with product teams to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes

• Collaborates with product teams and other stakeholders to support creation of a product strategy, identification of investments and roadmap creation to support business goals

Example deliverables: Business process/capability impact assessment, business process diagrams.

2. Assess Technology

• Maintains high-level knowledge of the enterprise application and technology portfolio to support contextual decision making.

• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information

• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models

• Supports product teams to integrate technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept work to deploy new technologies that would support, enhance, improve or replace the product or product functions or features.

• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution

• Supports the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations

• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture

Example deliverables: Current state architecture documentation, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation

3. Apply Technology

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards

• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture

• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information

• Works closely with Project Managers to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle

• Coaches and mentors product team members on architecture thinking.

Example deliverables: Solution documentation, solution architecture designs, enterprise target state architecture, platform strategy.

4. Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate (note: The level of detail and complexity in deliverables would vary depending on a solutions architect’s level of responsibility in the organization chart)

• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance

• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance

• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision

Example deliverables: Solution scorecard, enterprise reference architecture components

QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience in each of at least two (2) IT solution development disciplines, such as technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or cloud development.

• Demonstrated exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments

• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models

• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt

• Demonstrated ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements, including developing blueprints, strategies and roadmaps

• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

• Skilled at understanding the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations

• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives

• Effective interpersonal skills to work creatively and analytically for solving business problems and propose solutions

• Apt at quickly comprehending the functions and capabilities of new technologies

• Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences

• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes

• Experience working in the midstream energy industry is helpful, but not required

At Keyera, we embrace collaboration, inclusion, and a workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. Our values foster an environment for every person to bring their whole self to work.

We offer a well-rounded total compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program designed with the well-being and empowerment of our employees and their families in mind.

If you are interested in an opportunity to join a winning, purpose-driven culture then you’ll enjoy a career with us.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.