Team Lead, Architecture

QuadReal Property Group•Vancouver, BC

8d•CA$130,000 - CA$160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Team Lead, Architecture leads a team of Solution Architects within the Enterprise Solutions team, providing hands-on architectural leadership and people management to ensure QuadReal's technology solutions are strategically aligned, value-driven, and built on modern, secure, and well-governed foundations. This role combines the technical depth of solution architecture with the coaching, planning, and delivery accountability of a people leader. The Team Lead partners closely with IT and, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to guide technology and design decisions from concept through to value realization, while mentoring architects to grow their technical and professional capabilities. The Team Lead brings a strong working knowledge of Architectural frameworks and best practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent and modern cloud technologies. They maintain a clear view of the current cloud landscape and emerging architecture patterns, applying this knowledge to shape future-state designs and to guide the team's technical direction. The role reports to the Director, Enterprise Solutions and has two Solution Architects as direct reports. It is suited to a motivated, outcome-oriented leader with a "can do" attitude who is curious, takes a high degree of personal ownership, and demonstrates proactive problem-solving and adaptability in a dynamic environment.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of experience leading and coaching small technical teams.
Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in architecture
Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent), and demonstrated ability to apply them in a business context.
Understanding of design and integration practices in Cloud / XaaS-intensive environments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent work experience.
Demonstrated ability to convey complex ideas effectively through storytelling and engaging presentations tailored to varied audiences.
Demonstrated ability to build strong, high-trust relationships with business leaders, IT colleagues, and partners.
Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with excellent facilitation and collaboration abilities at all levels of an organization.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to balance multiple stakeholder expectations.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of real estate and related business processes across multiple asset classes (office, industrial, retail, residential, and development) is an asset.

Responsibilities

Leads, mentors, and coaches a team of two Solution Architects, guiding the development of tailored growth plans that address both technical and soft-skill development.
Supports succession planning within the team and contributes to a succession plan for own role.
Ensures the team has clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, with clear performance expectations documented for each team member.
Creates and fosters a customer-centric culture across all team interactions.
Supports the sourcing and allocation of appropriately skilled resources for successful project delivery, including extended delivery vendors and partners where applicable.
Guides the team in delivering a variety of architecture services with high quality to stakeholders, including future-state architecture designs, product assessments, technical summaries, and roadmaps.
Applies Enterprise Architecture frameworks and best practices to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, consistent, and governed appropriately.
Reviews and quality-assures architecture deliverables produced by the team, providing constructive feedback
Performs and oversees technical analysis of vendor offerings, conveying assessments to stakeholders in business terms with risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
Ensures architecture impacts, risks, and dependencies are identified and communicated, and that governance processes are followed (e.g. Architecture Review Board), and architecture recommendations are implemented.
Creates and promotes clear, engaging visual representations of architectures and solutions using tools such as Visio, Whimsical, or similar.
Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape and modern architecture patterns, particularly in application, data/integration, and security domains.
Own the IT architecture workstream for M&A and OpCo integrations by assessing acquired entities' application landscapes, defining consolidation and sequencing plans, and driving technology stack alignment to QuadReal standards
Acts as a trusted advisor and key point of contact for business stakeholders on architecture.
Represents architecture to the business, promoting the vision, services, and capabilities.
Cultivates positive, high-trust working relationships across business and IT functions, balancing multiple stakeholder expectations in a dynamic, time-sensitive environment.
Excels at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
Champions QuadReal's innovation culture, including the adoption of AI, within the IT team.
Leads and participates in innovation pilot projects, supporting idea generation and helping transform business stakeholder concepts into practical, value-realizing solutions.
Pursues professional development opportunities to maintain knowledge of prevalent and emerging technologies, and shares this knowledge with the team.