Technical Manager – TIS EA Architect

Role Overview

• Act as a principal level technical leader for architecture domain, providing direction, guidance, and recommendations on complex architectural and design decisions.
• Drive enterprise adoption of Enbridge’s architecture reference, LeanIX roadmaps and integrations, while guiding GenAI and DevOps strategies.
• Make informed design and standard practice deviations where required, based on depth and breadth of expertise, recognizing the limited ability to test recommendations prior to implementation.
• Review, validate, and provide oversight on the work of other senior specialists and architects, ensuring quality, consistency, and technical integrity.
• Identify and champion opportunities for automation, DevOps, and modernization in partnership with platform and delivery teams.
• Define and champion observability-led architecture, ensuring solutions are instrumented by design to provide real-time visibility into reliability, performance, cost, and user behavior.
• Leverage telemetry, logs, metrics, and traces to evaluate architectural effectiveness and guide modernization, resilience, and automation strategies.
• Define enterprise integration patterns, API governance standards, and event-driven architecture strategies that enable interoperability across business domains and partner ecosystems.
• Define architectural guardrails for GenAI and AI/ML adoption, including model governance, data privacy, responsible AI principles, and regulatory compliance in energy sector contexts.
• Architect for resilience, designing disaster recovery, business continuity, and failover strategies that meet critical infrastructure uptime requirements.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical development to other team members and emerging leaders within the area, creating long term value for Enbridge.
• Apply principles of behavioural science and organizational dynamics to architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are designed for adoption, usability, and sustainable operational behaviors.
• Use data engineering, advanced analytics, and system telemetry to inform architectural trade-offs, validate assumptions, and continuously improve platform and solution effectiveness.
• Partner with product, delivery, and operations teams to translate user behavior, system usage patterns, and operational signals into actionable architecture insights.
• Shape and influence target-state technology direction and roadmaps, while leading designs, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Provide recommendations that directly influence financial investments, operational efficiency, risk posture, and long-term sustainability of technology platforms.
• Identify opportunities to optimize cost, reduce technical debt, and improve reliability, scalability, and security of enterprise solutions.
• Influence architecture patterns that support advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI-enabled operations, including scalability, data latency, and real-time decision needs.
• Assess architectural trade-offs using both quantitative signals (data, metrics) and qualitative insights (behavioral impacts, operating models).
• Represent architecture in governance forums such as the Architecture Review Board and Technology Working Groups, influencing enterprise-wide outcomes.
• Communicate complex and highly technical concepts clearly and credibly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and operational execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations on high-consequence decisions.

Requirements

• Post secondary education (diploma, degree) in a related field, e.g., Computer Engineering with Eight or more years of directly related experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex, enterprise-scale initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience using data, metrics, and operational signals to inform architecture decisions and evaluate solution effectiveness.
• Working knowledge of data engineering concepts, analytics platforms, and telemetry pipelines sufficient to influence architecture and design decisions.
• Understanding of human-centered design principles and behavioral drivers as they relate to technology adoption, operations, and change.
• Experience designing or governing architectures that support real-time monitoring, observability, and operational intelligence.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive consensus on technical direction.
• Strong capability in evaluating architectural trade-offs across cost, risk, security, and scalability.
• Experience contributing to or defining enterprise architecture standards and reference architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing modernized solutions with a proven track record of design excellence.
• Strong knowledge of relevant domains (corporate solutions, network and core infrastructure, digital workplace, etc.).
• Ability to work closely with other architecture disciplines across integration, data, security, application and reporting.
• Advanced communication skills demonstrated through previous experience in the following contexts: multi-disciplinary project meetings, technical reviews with architects, developers and SME’s.
• Highly developed organizational skills to prioritize tasks and complete work within defined timeframes in a fast paced program environment.
• Preferred: 15+ years experience as a Technical or Solutions Architect, equivalent senior technical role is preferred.
• Relevant architecture certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, etc.)
• Experience with architecture-as-code, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep), or platform engineering practices.
• Experience in energy, utilities, or critical infrastructure sectors.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance.
• Exposure to behavioral economics, human-centered design, or change management frameworks applied in technology environments.
• Experience partnering with data, analytics, SRE, or operations teams to close gaps between design intent and operational outcomes.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Terraform

Benefits

• A flexible benefits program that allows each employee to select the level of coverage needed for their family in the areas of health, dental, insurance and disability.
• A paid maternity and parental leave benefit that offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birth-giving parents and up to 12 weeks for other eligible parents, providing flexibility and support during this important life event.
• Valuable retirement savings plans, including a savings plan with company stock as an investment option.
• Paid time off/vacation/sick, plus paid personal days off (depending on location), and paid holidays.
• An Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Wellness Program, which focuses on supporting healthier employees by providing tools, resources, and opportunities to improve physical, mental, social, and financial well-being.
• Enbridge’s FlexWork (hybrid work model) offers eligible employees (Manager and below) the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays, opt for a compressed work week schedule, or have flexible start and end times. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option.