Salary is determined based on the candidate's qualifications and market conditions for the role.

Posting period

From 10/26/2026 to 11/16/2026

Overview

We’re looking for a Manager IT, Enterprise Architectureto lead the development and evolution of Work SafeBC’s enterprise architecturepractice and help shape the organization’s future technology direction.

In this role, you’ll align technology strategy withbusiness priorities, establish a compelling enterprise technology vision, andguide the development of architecture principles, standards, patterns, androadmaps. You’ll lead a team of enterprise architects, strengthen architecturegovernance, and help ensure technology investments deliver measurableorganizational value.

As a key leader within the Business Engagement Services Department,you’ll build strong partnerships across business and technology teams, providestrategic guidance on complex enterprise decisions, and ensure architecturesupports secure, reliable, maintainable, and interoperable solutions.

This is an opportunity to influence how enterprisearchitecture enables business transformation across a complex, predominantlycustom-built technology environment.

How you’ll make a difference

You’ll help teams across Work SafeBC solve problems,leverage technology, and plan new ways to service B.C. workers and employers.

Where you’ll work

We serve the workers andemployers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how wecollaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.

This role combines time inour offices with flexibility for remote work.

What you'll do

- Develop and communicate an enterprise technology vision aligned with Work SafeBC’s strategy, operating model, and business needs.
- Assess the technology landscape, business capabilities,organizational priorities, and key pain points.
- Identify reusable enterprise patterns and capabilities that improveinteroperability, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
- Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, referencemodels, roadmaps, templates, and operating practices.
- Define measures that prioritize architecture initiatives, trackprogress, and demonstrate business value.
- Translate complex architecture issues into clear recommendationsthat support executive understanding and decision-making.
- Lead, organize, coach, recruit, and develop a high-performing teamof enterprise architects.
- Build strong partnerships across business and technology teams,ensuring early architecture involvement in strategy and investmentdecisions.




- Lead architecture governance, including the Architecture Review Board, decision rights, exceptions, technical debt, dependencies, andenterprise risks.
- Guide build, buy, reuse, integration, modernization,and retirement decisions while establishing guardrails for AI, cloud,Agile, Dev Ops, automation, and other emerging technologies.
- Consistently model theappropriate leveloforganizationalbehavioursexpected ofall Work SafeBCemployees: responsive, respectful, fair,collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.

Is this a positive fit for you?

You will thrive in this role if you:

- Connect organizationalpriorities to practical enterprise architecture direction.
- Have led enterprisearchitects or senior technology professionals in complex organizations.
- Can build, mature, andstrengthen the credibility of an enterprise architecture practice.
- Understand how to shapecustom-built software into secure, reusable, maintainable, and interoperablecapabilities.
- Balance long-termtechnology strategy with immediate business priorities and delivery pressures.
- Build trusted executiverelationships and influences decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Translate complextechnical issues into clear business outcomes, risks, trade-offs, andrecommendations.
- Use architecturegovernance to enable timely, informed decision-making.
- Lead change initiativeseffectively across Agile, product, project, and Dev Ops environments.
- Apply practical,evidence-based judgment to emerging technologies and demonstrates measurableenterprise architecture value.

Your background and experience

- A bachelor’s degree incomputer science, information technology, engineering, business technologymanagement, or a related discipline.
- At least eight years ofprogressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy,software architecture, or a related field.
- At least five years ofexperience leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, ormultidisciplinary technology teams.
- Experience developingenterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards,capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.




- Experience building ormaturing an enterprise architecture practice and leading governance, standards,technical debt, and architectural risk management.
- Experience guidingarchitecture in complex, custom-built software and modern deliveryenvironments, supported by broad knowledge of applications, integration, data,cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering.
- Strong executivepartnership and communication skills, with the ability to resolve competingpriorities, guide investment decisions, and demonstrate measurable enterprisevalue.

We’ll consider an equivalent combination of educationand experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

- Consent to a criminal recordcheck and successfully meet record clearance.
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada

Who we are

At Work SafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work.

We’rehonouredto serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What’s it like to work at Work SafeBC?

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for qualified growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

- Defined benefit pension planthat provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
- 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years ofservice
- Benefits packagethat includescustomizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, andahealthcare spending account
- Optional leave arrangements
- Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Salary : $150,000 - $165,000/annually

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📌 Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture (Richmond)
🏢 WorkSafeBC
📍 Richmond