Director of Architecture Infrastructure (Technology)
ATB Financial, Canada
Job Description
ATB Ventures: Building the Future Together
ATB Ventures is the research and innovation arm of ATB Financial. ATB Ventures was started in 2018, knowing that the convergence of data with powerful emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning would pave the way for major disruption and value creation that exceeded the digital transformation of the past 20 years.
ATB Ventures is a team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and business operators who having been building emerging solutions from scratch - including Open ATB: Open AI, Open Data, API Sandbox, Oliu (Self-Sovereign Digital ID platform), Proof (Digital credential wallet) and more.
ATB - ATB Ventures
Job Number: REQ5313
Location: Canada (remote)
Paygrade: N-Director LT
System Title: Leader 9 Enterprise Architecture
Positions available: 1
Leader Name: Nav Dhunay
About the role | What we are looking for...
Once a startup with just a few team members, today ATB Ventures is an ambitious, fast growing global team. With product adoption and commercialization accelerating, ATB Ventures is looking to expand its team as we look to bring to market third generation and Web 3.0 solutions that can positively change the world.
ATB Ventures is looking for a Director of Architecture amp; Infrastructure to join our Innovation team and lead the charge in creating a visionary technology architecture roadmap and strategy that aligns business needs with technologies. In this role, you will leverage leading edge technologies and enable our talented team of engineers to bring our ideas to life. You wear many hats with ease and continuously draw on both the breadth and depth of your expertise to experiment and develop meaningful solutions for the customers of tomorrow.
As the leader of a growing team of technologists, you will have the opportunity to work alongside high performing individuals and ultimately oversee the architectural, infrastructure and DevOps decisions behind product development. You will be guiding and influencing the architect of the products we build while leveraging your understanding of deep tech, microservice architectures, serverless code, cloud-native software, and other cutting edge technologies.You will be required to roll-up your sleeves and design, describe and build out solution from a software architectural perspective.
Reporting to the Head of Technology, this role is a critical member of the technology leadership team. Finding an individual who can support the cadence of rapid growth of our team and product portfolio is key to this role's success.
Key competencies | What competencies we need in an ideal candidate
Strategic and systems thinking: You are someone who can design and architect scalable systems with the expertise to support growth products. Using your breadth of experience, your ability to recognize architectural patterns and filter important factors from negligible details, you recommend solutions that consider technical fit as well as business impact.
Customer-focused approach to solutions: You possess the ability to distill and abstract complex concepts into simple designs, easily understandable by engineers and software developers.
Growth and performance-oriented: You are someone who is focused on adding value, achieving revenue growth, and growing the impact of your products. You don’t shy away from taking charge to get things done.Summary of key responsibilities | What you will be responsible for day-to-day...
- Lead, coach, guide and inspire the Ventures technology team on the path to building innovative, high quality products.
- Provide direct leadership to a team responsible for areas of solutions architecture, security architecture, DevOps and infrastructure support.
- Working with a diverse team of technologists, provide architecture blueprints and roadmaps to support the development of Ventures initiatives.
- Provide architecture and design thought leadership,
- Define the system and software architecture principles, adhering to modern architecture principles.
- Create the technical vision and provide thought leadership for all integration technologies.
- Lead infrastructure team to elicit technical requirements with limited information or guidance to architect solutions that meet both business and customer needs.
- Break complex and large technical solutions into manageable activities and prioritize.
- Lead the work on architecting and implementing the best DevOps processes for native Cloud development.
- Work with the data engineering team to architect pipelines and their DataOps/MLOps processes would be nice to have.
- Bring forth new ideas, approaches, technologies and best practices