Senior Manager, Technical Architecture
About The Position
We are currently seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Architecture, to join our Information Technology organization, supporting enterprise and industrial operations from Toronto/Sudbury, ON. This is a permanent, hybrid role, operating in a complex, global IT and OT environment, where uptime, safety, and resilience are non‑negotiable. This role is practitioner‑led and execution‑oriented. It is designed for a senior technical expert who can act as a hands‑on authority across infrastructure, networks, hosting, cloud, integration platforms, cybersecurity, identity, and end‑user computing. You will work closely with engineering teams, vendors, cybersecurity, architecture peers, and delivery teams to turn architectural intent into operable, real‑world solutions across corporate and site‑based environments.
Requirements
- 11–15 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or technical architecture roles
- Strong background in enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud, middleware, and cybersecurity
- Practical experience supporting or operating in industrial or OT‑adjacent environments strongly preferred
- Proven experience working with vendors, system integrators, and managed service providers
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- College Diploma considered with equivalent experience
- Deep technical expertise across infrastructure, networking, hosting, cloud, identity, and end‑user platforms
- Strong understanding of hybrid IT/OT architectures
- Ability to design large‑scale systems with high availability, resilience, and recoverability
- Hands‑on technical leadership and incident support experience
- Strong communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences
- Calm, methodical, and disciplined approach in high‑pressure environments
- Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and safety awareness
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the technical architecture for backend IT and OT platforms, including data centres, networks, cloud environments, hosting platforms, middleware, identity, cybersecurity tooling, and end‑user computing
- Ensure architectures support both enterprise IT workloads and industrial OT environments
- Design for availability, performance, safety, security, and operational resilience
- Define and oversee enterprise‑wide network architectures spanning corporate, site, and OT networks
- Own hosting and compute architectures across on‑prem, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments
- Ensure appropriate segmentation, redundancy, and failover across IT/OT landscapes
- Define cloud architecture patterns and technical guardrails
- Own middleware and integration platform architectures supporting enterprise, data, and industrial systems
- Ensure platforms enable reliable, scalable integration across complex environments
- Embed cybersecurity‑by‑design across technical architectures
- Partner closely with cybersecurity teams to align with standards, threat models, and regulatory requirements
- Assess and mitigate technical risks related to legacy platforms, OT environments, and site constraints
- Act as a senior technical authority for solution design, major incidents, and complex challenges
- Provide hands‑on guidance to engineers, integrators, and vendors through design, build, testing, and deployment
- Review and challenge technical designs to ensure architectural integrity and operational viability
- Identify opportunities to reduce complexity through standardization and modernization
- Define repeatable technical patterns and reference architectures
- Capture lessons learned from outages and implementations to improve resilience and reliability
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including a variable annual incentive plan
- Participation in a competitive Defined Contribution Pension package
- Comprehensive benefits package (company paid core coverage, health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans, and optional insurances)
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, personal, sick, parental)
- Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
- Employee Family Assistance Program
- Virtual Healthcare online
- Online training and career development opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
