Team Lead, Architecture in Winnipeg

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.

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.
• Represents architecture to the business, promoting the vision, services, and capabilities.
• 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.

Benefits include performance-based incentive plan, comprehensive health & dental benefits, pension plan, and paid time off.