Senior IT Workforce Architect (18-months contract)

OLG • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$95,200 - CA$142,800 • Onsite

About The Position

We are ready to take this game to the next level and need someone passionate to help shape the future of EIT's workforce, ensuring our people, skills, and leadership capabilities evolve alongside changing business priorities and emerging technologies. This role strategically plans and shapes how the workforce evolves by designing workforce strategies, capability roadmaps, learning journeys, talent pipelines, and succession plans that prepare EIT for the future. The successful candidate will lead workforce readiness initiatives from strategy through execution, ensuring employees, leaders, and teams have the skills, support, and opportunities needed to thrive in a continuously evolving environment.

Requirements

• Degree in Information Technology, Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Adult Education, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of workforce planning, talent management, learning and development, and capability-building practices within technology-driven environments.
• Knowledge of job architecture, skills-based workforce planning, career development frameworks, and succession planning methodologies.
• Understanding of organizational change management principles and workforce readiness practices.
• Knowledge of emerging workforce trends, AI impacts on work, and future workforce strategies.
• 5–7 years' progressive experience in workforce planning, talent management, learning and development, organizational effectiveness, or transformation roles within IT or technology-driven environments.
• Experience developing workforce strategies, capability roadmaps, and talent programs aligned to business priorities.
• Demonstrated success leading learning, upskilling, reskilling, leadership development, or workforce readiness initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with senior leaders, People & Culture partners, and technical stakeholders to drive capability development and organizational readiness.
• Experience using workforce insights, skills data, and market trends to inform workforce and talent decisions.
• Collaboration: Builds strong partnerships across EIT, People & Culture, and leadership teams to align workforce initiatives with business priorities and organizational goals.
• Improvement Mindset: Champions continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen workforce effectiveness, employee experience, and organizational capability.
• Problem Solving: Analyzes workforce challenges, identifies capability gaps, and develops practical solutions that support business priorities and future workforce needs.
• Works confidently in ambiguity, connecting the dots across complex inputs and translating conceptual direction into practical, actionable plans.
• Considers different lenses and stakeholder perspectives to shape solutions that are thoughtful, balanced, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Moves with pace and agility by testing, learning, iterating, and adjusting as priorities, information, and organizational needs evolve.
• Demonstrates a proactive, go-getter mindset by stepping in when needs or opportunities emerge and leading through influence across a broad range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workforce Planning by assessing current and future workforce capacity and capability needs, identifying gaps, and defining strategic responses through reskilling, redeployment, hiring, succession planning, or transition strategies.
• Own the EIT People Plan by developing and executing workforce strategies that align skills, talent, leadership development, engagement, and inclusion efforts with EIT's strategic priorities.
• Shape Future Workforce Capabilities by building capability roadmaps, and workforce strategies that prepare EIT for emerging technologies, evolving business needs, and changing ways of working.
• Drive AI Workforce Readiness by assessing the impact of AI on roles, skills, and workforce requirements while guiding the evolution of jobs and capabilities needed for the future.
• Lead Learning & Development Strategies by designing and delivering broad-based upskilling and reskilling initiatives that equip employees with the skills, tools, and confidence required for future roles and new ways of working.
• Build Leadership Capability by strengthening People Leaders' ability to lead through change, reinforce accountability, and actively support the adoption of EIT's target operating model.
• Advance Talent & Succession Planning by ensuring continuity of critical roles and capabilities through proactive succession strategies, talent pipeline development, and career growth pathways.
• Drive Job Architecture & Career Development by supporting role design, career pathing, and skills-based workforce planning that enables employees to grow their careers with confidence.
• Strengthen Workforce Engagement & Inclusion by developing initiatives that enhance employee experience, belonging, engagement, and organizational readiness across EIT.
• Enable Organizational Readiness by proactively identifying workforce impacts, preparing leaders and employees for change, and ensuring EIT has the right capabilities to successfully deliver on business priorities.
• Bridge Strategy and Execution by translating workforce insights and future-state workforce plans into practical programs, learning experiences, talent strategies, and measurable outcomes that deliver business value.

Benefits

• Eligible employees and dependents have access to comprehensive, employer-paid group benefits coverage (permanent employees only).
• Participation in a highly desirable defined benefit pension plan.
• Participation in a performance-based incentive plan that recognizes organizational and individual achievements (permanent employees only).
• Competitive paid time-off provisions to support work-life balance and well-being.
• Become your best self with access to new opportunities and personalized support programs.
• 24/7 access to robust online learning programs.
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion: Core to OLG’s culture, empowering employees to bring their authentic selves and make a meaningful impact across Ontario.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior