Portfolio Product Owner in Toronto

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About The Information Technology Services At Humber

Humber Digital Innovation, Information Technology Services provides leadership for the continuous development of digital experiences delivered on a secure, flexible, and dependable IT environment built on a foundation of transparency, collaboration, client focus, and respect. Together we transform client ideas into results, leverage technology to enable student engagement and success, support students and employees in the journey of discovery, deliver integrated digital solutions to improve collaboration and communication across the Humber community, and improve business processes to enable better decision-making.

About The Portfolio Product Owner - Enterprise Architect Role

Under the general direction of the Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services, the Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and evolving Humber’s enterprise technology strategy, ensuring alignment between institutional priorities, digital initiatives, and the overall technology landscape. You will provide strategic direction across platforms, products, and integrations, guiding enterprise level decisions that shape Humber’s digital future. Working closely with senior leadership, Product Owners, and Architects, you will ensure that technology investments are intentional, scalable, and aligned with long term institutional outcomes. You will play a key role in evaluating emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, and determining their applicability within Humber’s academic and administrative environment. Ultimately, you are accountable for ensuring that Humber’s technology ecosystem is cohesive, future ready, and capable of supporting innovation at scale.

How You Work Within Humber’s Product and Architecture Model

Humber operates within a product management model supported by a layered architecture approach. As the Enterprise Architect, you operate at the institutional level, ensuring alignment between strategic goals, business priorities, product delivery, and technology roadmaps, while driving the identification, assessment, and mitigation of digital risk across the institution.

You will partner with senior leadership to shape enterprise solutions and define product and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities, regulatory requirements, and long-term strategic direction. You will also collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Privacy teams to assess and manage digital risk, ensuring that architectural decisions support secure, compliant, and responsible use of technology.

In this role, you provide direction and alignment across the product and architecture ecosystem:

• Business Product Owners (BPOs): who are responsible for defining business value, client needs, and desired outcomes. You provide strategic direction to ensure these outcomes are supported by scalable, sustainable, and enterprise-aligned capabilities.
• Technology Product Owners (TPOs): who are responsible for delivery execution, backlog management, and platform integrity. You guide and govern architectural direction to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and long term strategy.
• Applications and Solution Architects: who design and implement platform-specific solutions. You establish architectural standards, provide decision frameworks, and ensure consistency across all implementations within the enterprise landscape.

In this model, you are accountable for setting up enterprise architectural direction, enabling informed decision-making, and ensuring that all product and platform-level work contributes to a cohesive, scalable, risk-aware, and future-ready digital ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with Humber’s strategic goals, institutional priorities and digital transformation goals.
• Establish and maintain enterprise level technology roadmaps that guide platform evolution, integration, and modernization across the institution.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the AVP, ITS and senior leadership, contributing to executive level decision making on technology direction and investment.
• Provide enterprise level architectural direction and decision frameworks that guide technology investments and solution design across the institution.
• Ensure technology investments and platform decisions are aligned with enterprise priorities, maximizing value, long term sustainability, scalability, and resilience of the enterprise technology landscape.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, assessing their impact, value, and risk within the institutional context.
• Ensure alignment and coherence across the enterprise technology landscape, including academic systems, administrative platforms, CRM, identity, data, and integration layers.
• Direct and govern architectural decisions across product teams, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and long term strategy.
• Establish and enforce enterprise architecture governance, standards, and best practices across all technology domains.
• Identify, assess, and communicate enterprise level risks related to technology, architecture, data, and security, enabling informed decision making at the leadership level.
• Drive cross-portfolio alignment by working with senior leadership, Product Owners, Architects, and technical leaders to manage dependencies and ensure cohesive solution design.
• Participate in and contribute to enterprise governance forums, both internally and externally, providing architectural insight and recommendations for strategic initiatives.

About You

You are passionate about working at Ontario's largest Polytechnic; you thrive on improving productivity and quality that contribute to team success!

Education

Bachelor’s degree (required) or college diploma plus equivalent industry experience; Master’s (is considered an asset).

Experience/Skills

• Minimum ten years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technology leadership roles within complex organizations.
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps across multiple platforms and domains.
• Experience supporting executive level decision making on technology strategy, investment, and transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with large scale enterprise systems, including CRM platforms such as Salesforce, integration platforms, identity systems, and enterprise data environments.
• Experience evaluating and implementing emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, within a structured governance framework.
• Experience in post-secondary education or the broader public sector in Canada is considered a strong asset.
• Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, including strategy development, roadmap planning, and governance across complex technology ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of enterprise systems, including CRM platforms such as Salesforce, integration platforms, identity systems, and core academic and administrative technologies.
• Strong knowledge of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and the ability to assess their applicability within an institutional context.
• Proven ability to influence and guide enterprise level decision making, balancing innovation, risk, long term sustainability.
• Exceptional systems thinking, with the ability to understand and design across interconnected platforms, services, and organizational domains.
• Strong understanding of enterprise level risk, including technology, data, security, and operational risks, with the ability to guide mitigation strategies.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes and strategic decisions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across executive leadership, product teams, and technical domains.
• Ability to establish and enforce architectural governance, standards, and decision frameworks across the organization.
• Experience working in complex, multi stakeholder environments, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse priorities and initiatives.

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to be a part of building Humber's future.
• Be part of a diverse, hard-working, and supportive team.
• Tools and technology that will allow you to succeed at your job.
• Amazing perks!

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Humber Polytechnic is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of our students and our city. We actively seek Indigenous Peoples and individuals from equity-deserving groups with demonstrated skills and knowledge to deal with all aspects of equity, diversity and inclusion in a post-secondary environment.

Humber supports employment equity. Racialized workers, women, Indigenous workers, LGBTQ2S+ workers and workers with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Accommodation

Humber Polytechnic is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Our Talent Acquisition team will work with applicants requesting accommodations at any stage of the hiring process.

Anti-Discrimination Statement

At Humber Polytechnic, all forms of discrimination and harassment are prohibited. All employees and applicants have the right to work in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.