VP of Architecture

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D2L is a cloud company that is modernizing education and building the Future of Work. The old models of teaching and learning are in the midst of the largest transformation in history, and D2L is at the heart of that fundamental shift.

New models of teaching and learning enable a personalized, student-centric experience – and deliver improved retention, engagement, satisfaction, and results for learners of all ages – in schools, campuses, and companies.

D2L is disrupting the way the world learns, by providing the next generation learning environment and solutions to engage and inspire learners. And most importantly, by giving customers a platform that is easy, flexible, and smart. No other company provides a solution as robust and innovative as D2L.

D2L has had a singular mission for 20 years and is dedicated to that same mission in the years ahead: to transform the way the world learns – and by doing so, we will help improve human potential globally.

A member of our Talent Acquisition team reviews ALL of our applications - yes a real person reviews resumes! They are excited to read more about what amazing things you could add to D2L.

Every day, our software is used by millions of people around the world, and we are looking for developers who share in our excitement and passion for transforming the way the world learns. At D2L, we believe that learning should be accessible and engaging. Our goal is to create easy, flexible, and smart software that ignites the desire to learn in everyone. To do this, we need to give talented, enthusiastic, and passionate people, like you, opportunities to create, develop, and collaborate on projects that revolutionize the learning environment.

General Description:

The VP of Architecture will be responsible for driving the technical roadmap and vision for D2L – advancing our application patterns, helping guide the transformation of our system for our next 100M learners, and engaging and leveraging our product engineering teams, our principal software engineers/architects, our technical leadership group (TLG), our managers and our platform SMEs to define, refine and improve our paved paths for the software work we do every day. This role is responsible for architecture approaches, direction and vision, that serve to guide the work on the technical advancement, consolidation, optimization and evolution of the Learning Innovation Platform underpinning solutions produced at D2L. Acting as one of the most important technical leaders for the company, mentoring and directing internal and external technical teams, working with the leaders of departments to align and execute the advancement of our software to support our business and product direction. Coaching and mentoring staff in D2L around architecture principles and methods, leading practices in system design, and AWS services for our large scale, cloud offering continuing to enhance the culture of a world-leading cloud company.

Responsibilities:

• Outlining the key milestones and direction around how our software and technology evolves to provide an industry leading cloud education experience.
• Working with key stakeholders to drive the roadmap priorities to ensure operational focus on architecture and platform advances (including product management, pre-sales, operations, and development)
• Simplify and scale our engineering approach to minimize redundant product capabilities, define clear domain models, and help provide clarity on technical ownership and SMEs
• Build out repeatable patterns in application design to ensure extensibility through configuration is a fundamental approach for D2L
• Work with technical leadership groups to help scale the organization to effectively assess and scale the review of team’s technical approaches and to ensure aligned paths to the technical vision milestones
• Drive the improvement of web-scale, AWS-first design processes at D2L working with the operational and platform teams
• Guiding teams working on individual solution initiatives to line up their technology plans with specific platform advancement milestones
• Working with teams onsite (travel) and virtually as needed to help drive strategy and objectives
• Lead a team performing architecture work, working with engineering teams to ensure technological alignment, advancing D2L application, maximizing AWS platform benefits, and researching trends in technology frameworks and operational models.
• Working with key technology partners around relevant engagements for advancing the D2L platform
• Technical leadership around best of breed technology to meet user expectations and providing expert visibility to D2L into evolving industry work and standards (libraries, frameworks, tools)
• Plan and revise organizational structure (as needed), hiring and development plans, and staff skills development to continue to evolve an effective technology culture at D2L
• Mentor and coach teams on execution of strong technology and architecture design principles
• Provide leadership and strategies around the ongoing improvement of the technology organization and its work within the company
• Operational oversight of budgets, departmental costs and plans around key investment areas
• Speaking with key customer leadership, faculty and staff to talk about our technology vision and their key needs and alignment with our vision
• Speaking about architecture and cloud methodology and strategy at various D2L events or industry panels
  
  

D2L Leadership Competencies:

• Leads by Example with personal and professional integrity, high accountability and say/do ratio
• Boundaryless collaboration and influence skills both within team, peer group and broader organization. Effective communicator with a proven track record of
• Delivers Awesome Outcomes: Strategic mindset and business acumen, with strong prioritization skills and a focus on organizational outcomes vs. team tasks. Effective problem solver, able to achieve results individually and through others, in fast paced, deadline-driven environments.
• Talent Magnet: Talent-focused leader, with demonstrated ability to coach, build and lead a high performing, diverse team.
• Better, Smarter, Faster: An agile learner, with a growth mindset, attention to detail and organizational skills. An operationally minded leader, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
• Wins Hearts and Minds: An effective communicator, with the ability to connect the why and the what. A change agent, with proven delegation, motivation, and team building skills
  
  

Don’t meet every single requirement? We strongly encourage you to still apply! At D2L, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage your application even if you don’t believe you meet every single qualification outlined, because we love to help our people grow and develop!

Why we’re awesome:

At D2L, we are dedicated to providing you with the tools to do the best work of your life. While some of our perks and benefits may vary depending on location or employment type, we are proud to provide employees with the following;

• Impactful work transforming the way the world learns
• Flexible work arrangements
• Learning and Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our Catch the Wave Program
• 2 Paid Days off for Catch the Wave related activities like exams or final assignments
• Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more)
• Retirement planning
• 2 Paid Volunteer Days
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Home Internet Reimbursements
• Employee Referral Program
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Employee Recognition
• Social Events
• Dog Friendly Offices at our HQ in Kitchener, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Melbourne.