Team Lead, Solution Architecture in Vancouver

QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, development and operating company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its assets under management are $98.5 billion. QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves.

The Team Lead, Solution 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Acts as a trusted advisor and key point of contact for business stakeholders on architecture.
• Champions QuadReal's innovation culture, including the adoption of AI, within the IT team.
• Pursues professional development opportunities to maintain knowledge of prevalent and emerging technologies, and shares this knowledge with the team.

Experience And Qualifications:

• 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).
• 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.
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with excellent facilitation and collaboration abilities at all levels of an organization.

The expected annualized base salary range for this role is $130,000-$160,000. Based on the position, QuadReal offers a competitive total rewards package in addition to the base pay, which may include a performance-based incentive plan, comprehensive health & dental benefits, pension plan, and paid time off.