**JOIN US IN ENABLING TRADE THROUGH CANADA'S LARGEST PORT.** The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is an arm’s-length federal agency responsible for the shared stewardship of the lands and waters that make up the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s largest port. Our mandate, as outlined in the Canada Marine Act, is to enable Canada’s trade objectives on behalf of all Canadians, ensuring the safe movement of goods through the Port of Vancouver while protecting the environment and considering local communities. As an organization with a significant impact on communities and businesses across Canada, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We strive to create a workplace that mirrors the richness of our community, empowering all employees to achieve their full potential. The **business solutions architect** works closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to find solutions to business problems and guide the process from idea inception, through functional and technology requirements, to delivery. This position will assist the manager, business systems design and implementations with translating individual business unit needs into enterprise applications map, forming solutions architecture, and solidifying the technology vision of the solutions. As a technology product owner, the business solutions architect will be choosing the right technology for business problems and play a pivotal role throughout the systems development lifecycle: from developing business requirements, work plans and technical specifications, to implementation and staying involved in future updates to the solution. **What you do:** + Conduct research and analyzehow and which technologies can be used to solve business problems. Define andrecommend what framework, platform, or technical stack can be used to create asolution. Design and envision how the applications will look, what the moduleswill be, and how they will interact with each other. + Provides input to the businessplanning and participates in the project planning process. + Identify opportunities forimprovement and/or enhancements opportunities of existing business applicationsand processes; implement these improvements through effective leadership andengagement of others. + Collaborate with internal andexternal customers to identify and validate specific business needs, create thetechnology and business requirements. + Utilize artifacts such asbusiness requirements documents (BRDs), JIRA, data analysis and BusinessProcess Documentation, facilitates requirements alignment sessions. + Create technicalspecifications for delivering customer solutions. + Produce documentation to aidin the understanding of existing architecture solutions + Provide technical leadershipas it relates to developing strategy, scalability, performance, architectureand overall high-level design to ensure solution quality. + Oversee consultants to developand implement solutions aligned with agreed upon specifications. + Lead the project close out andlessons learned activities to validate solutions with the business to ensuredelivery and continuous improvement. + Identify integrationopportunities and overlaps among VFPA business applications; recommendimprovements and enhancements. Resolve application and data integration issuesas required **What you bring:** + A post-secondary degree incomputer science, business administration or another acceptable area + A minimum of five yearsrelated experience, including recent proven leadership on creating technologysolutions for business problems, business analysis, project management andbusiness and technology requirement gathering in complex business environments. + Experience working with bothagile and waterfall delivery methodologies is required, and well as proficiencyin tools like Visio, draw.io, Jira, and SharePoint. + Must value maintaining theirtechnology skills and act proactively to stay on top of advances in areas ofexpertise. + Must have demonstratedexperience with the following: + o Experienceworking with both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies is required + o Proficiencyin tools like Visio, draw.io, Jira, and SharePoint + o Clouddata platforms (Azure and AWS) along with on-premises data integration. + o Understandingof on-premises and on cloud dashboard deployments. + o Experienceworking as a solution technology owner on ServiceNow platform. + o Complextechnical and architectural documentation skills. + o Conceptualunderstanding of and exposure to modern programming languages, data management,analysis and reporting tools + The following will beconsidered assets: + o Experiencewith supporting or creating solutions for finance and accounting systems. + o Exposureto other no-code/low-code platforms such as Microsoft Powerautomate/PowerApps,OpenText AppWorks, etc + o Experiencewith data management platforms, IOT Integration and analytics projects. + o Developmentand programming experience/exposure. + o Datasecurity principles, efficiency, quality, and governance. **What we offer:** + Market-competitive base salaries and variableincentive plan + Generous and inclusive benefits offeringincluding retirement benefits plan + Hybrid work program + Earned time off program + Paid vacation and personal care leave + Learning, development, and advancementopportunities + Onsite gym with towel service in a nationallandmark in the heart of Vancouver’s waterfront + Friendly, unique, and respectful workplace **Location:** Vancouver, Canada **Job type:** Bargaining Unit, Full-Time, Permanent, Hybrid **Working environment:** Normal office conditions. **Marine Transportation Security Clearance** The incumbent must obtain and maintain a valid Marine Transportation Security Clearance as this position is required to access restricted areas/information as defined by the Marine Transportation Security Regulations. _This is Canadian-based employment, and itis expected that all employees maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada.Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process may be subject tobackground checks, including but not limited to criminal record, credit, and/orreference checks._ _At the_ _Vancouver Fraser Port Authority,we are dedicated to employment equity and a workplace reflective of thediversity of our port community. We welcome applications from all qualifiedcandidates including women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, andmembers of visible minorities. Reasonable accommodation can be provided in theselection process and while working with the port authority. If you requiresupport applying to our openings, please contact us at_ careers@portvancouver.com _._ _We recognize and acknowledge that we are locatedon the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. To learn more about ourindigenous relations and commitment to reconciliation, please visit our_ website (https://www.portvancouver.com/community/indigenous-relations/) _._