Digital Solutions Architect

Description

At the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, we're updating and adapting the way we do business with a renewed focus on meeting the needs of lottery players and stakeholders in our region - which includes meeting them online.

We are looking for a Digital Solutions Architect to play a crucial role in the delivery of a new iLottery platform for WCLC and help drive the evolution of WCLC's Digital landscape.

Does the idea of collaborating with others to help make technology decisions and solution roadmaps light up the area of your brain that loves solving problems? Are you excited by exploring new technologies and helping define strategies and roadmaps for how they're used? Do you want to lead the adoption of digital technology solutions to enable the business and move our organization forward?

Then we want to talk to you.

The Role

The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) is looking to add a Digital Solutions Architect to our IT Architecture department.

We're looking for someone who can...

• Provide technical leadership and guidance on the implementation of long-term digital solutions that align with WCLCs strategic goals as well as interim tactical plans for managing and maintaining corporate solutions.
• Define and document scalable, robust, and secure digital architectures tailored to WCLCs requirements, including but not limited to business, infrastructure, application, security, data and service architectures.
• Create comprehensive models to depict the as is, to be and transitional states of solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on non-functional engineering requirements and security controls.
• Work closely with other iLottery team members to support end to end traceability across the various level of models created for architecture and design.
• Prepare technology solutions options and analysis recommendations to meet business needs.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement in WCLC's digital solutions.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to others on all aspects of solution architectures and IT technologies, with a focus on digital solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solution's life-cycle stages.
• Develop/support/evaluate RFI/RFPs and Total Cost of ownership (TCO) to support business cases.
• Develop technology strategies, roadmaps, and patterns to support WCLCs Digital journey.
• Provide input to the continuous improvement of Architecture processes and practices.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in a computer-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in IT and at least 5 years' experience with enterprise-level solutions.
• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Digital Architect, or similar role with a focus on digital transformation projects.
• Strong knowledge and experience implementing digital technologies including Cloud Platforms, APIs and data management.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, working independently and within a team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills and the ability to self-manage multiple, concurrent priorities
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and lifecycles.
• Experience with agile and DevSecOps practices/processes.
• Demonstrated experience creating solution models and technical writing.
• Experience with common IT architectural frameworks (TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, SABSA, etc.).
• Experience with Archimate is an asset.
• Experience in business analysis and requirements gathering is an asset.
• Knowledge of the Lottery and Gaming industry is also an asset.

Who we are

You may not have heard of us before, but you've almost certainly heard of the products we help bring to players throughout the Prairie Provinces and the North every day; lottery games like LOTTO 6/49, SPORT SELECT, and dozens of instant scratch tickets.

WCLC is the non-profit organization authorized to manage, conduct, and operate lottery and gaming-related activities at retail and online for the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as The Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We work closely with our governmental partners to bring a first-rate lottery experience to our players and meet their changing needs with new technology and tools.

We know it's our people that make this possible, which is why we invest in building talented, adaptable, and accountable teams. We'd love to talk to you about how you fit into that.

We offer a challenging, collaborative work environment, competitive benefits, and a good work-life balance.