Ubc

Ubc

Senior Solution Architect, Student Ecosystem

UBC Vancouver Campus - Vancouver, BC, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$12k-$19kDetected 7 hours ago
ResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • The Senior Solution Architect, Student Ecosystem is a university wide role accountable for the end‑to‑end architecture of UBC's Student Ecosystem across enterprise platforms, integrations, data domains, and external vendors.
  • The Senior Solution Architect reports, organizationally, to the Chief Enterprise Architect with a dotted line to the Director, Enterprise Digital Transformation & Automation.
  • The Senior Solutions Architect will work closely with stakeholders and senior colleagues from the Faculties, Enrolment Services, and Administrative Units and other units within the University.

Responsibilities

  • Manages the overall design and development of end-to‑end solution architectures for the Student Ecosystem, spanning multiple systems, platforms, and vendors.
  • Establishes and enforces solution level architecture standards, principles, and design patterns for student facing and student supporting systems.
  • Leads and participates in Architecture Review Board (ARB) and related governance forums.
  • Acts as the architectural authority across multi-vendor student programs, reviewing solution designs, integration approaches, and roadmaps.

Requirements

  • Performs other related duties as required.

Nice to have

  • Extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture roles within complex organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience leading architecture across large, federated portfolios involving multiple platforms and vendors.
  • Strong solution architecture capability across enterprise applications, integrations, data, identity, and digital platforms.
  • Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions with institutional level impact.
  • Expertise in architecture governance, risk management, and stakeholder negotiation.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.
  • Post-graduate degree.

Compensation

  • $12,056.75 - $18,813.42 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position.
  • In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Benefits

  • Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Equal opportunity

  • At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

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