Position Title:
Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Audience Facing Products (Digital Strategy And Product) (English Services)
Status of Employment:
Permanent
Position Language Requirement:
Language Skills:
Work at CBC/Radio-Canada
At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.
Unposting Date:
2025-10-23 11:59 PM
Why is this role important?
We're looking for a senior manager of Enterprise Architecture, audience facing products. This role will lead the architectural practice, and align technology solutions with digital product strategies and overall business goals. Audience facing products are more than frontend technologies. You are helping product teams realize their missions in discovering content, and stay engaged and connected to our digital products. You’ll be at the heart of innovation—working hand-in-hand with product leaders, engineering managers and technical leaders. Your mission: guide and inspire teams to implement smart, scalable, and future-ready solutions—anchored in strong architectural principles and best practices. If you're passionate about building what's next, and thrive at the intersection of strategy, technology, and collaboration, we want to hear from you!
CBC/Radio-Canada is the largest broadcaster in Canada and this team is at the very heart of its content creation experience. The Audience Data and Privacy Team (ADaPT) is responsible for building, maintaining and supporting the workflows and tools that allows us to better understand our audience and better tailor content to their individual needs while balancing privacy considerations. We accomplish this by federating content produced by CBC for distribution across CBC’s applications and broadly to content aggregators worldwide, delivering News, Sports, Podcasts, On-demand audio information to thousands of Canadians. We work with a lot of content types and platforms ranging from APIs, GQL, podcast audio files, live stream sporting events to audio content management.
How you will make an impact:
You are an experienced technical manager looking to apply and build your skills in:* Partnering with a number of stakeholders, including product managers and directors, technical leadership community, designers, explore architectural and technology needs, using architectural solutions to help define reasonable scope.
Handling and driving key technical decisions. Effectively working across development teams, technical leaders, business stakeholders within the department and across departments. Leading and facilitating collaborative analysis, solutioning, review and technical decisions.
You contribute to product planning and roadmap by bringing the technology perspective to the process, and championing critical, valuable work.
Observe technical leadership gaps, and grow domain expertise.
Lead the design of enterprise-wide software architecture that considers functional integrity, scalability, resilience, stability, security and operational excellence while balancing time to market, business needs with long-term growth and health of the digital ecosystem.
Bring industry trends to the department, including technology and methodologies. You educate and advise, bringing teams closer alignment with industry best practices. You have academic interests, yet you are pragmatic in terms of understanding the most impactful applications for certain technologies.
Able to advise on technology investments in the immediate and long term.
Build architecture practice that contributes and enhances the discovery process, allowing clarity on deliverables, team dependencies and skills development.
Establish and maintain architectural standards including data governance, security and regulatory compliance.
Manage architects and maintain a high performance culture, where people are passionate about the work they do.
What you bring to our team:* Three or more years of experience in a technical management position. You followed a progressive career from developer to architect. You had experience managing a team with specific missions of more than 2 employees.
You are a technical leader, first and foremost. You demonstrate broad knowledge on a variety of architectural / technical domains for audience facing products: e.g. data integration, authentication, frontend technologies and cross platform technologies.
You are experienced in maturing practices. You’ll navigate evolving priorities and sometimes fluid direction, with the opportunity to shape outcomes.
You are knowledgeable in engineering practices: for instance, test strategy, test management and tooling, automation platforms, monitoring platforms, observability strategy. CI/CD devOps.
You have experience leading projects and programs, as well as allocating the right people, or applying the right process to solve problems. You can perform under ambiguity, bringing clarity through discovery, and be able to provide effective solutions..
People Leadership – Lead and coach a team to achieve business objectives. Direct, motivate, and develop your team, maximizing their impact and professional growth. Build a high performance culture, grounded by diversity and inclusion.
A problem solver and good communicator who takes ownership of the work they do, see problems as opportunities, and share new ideas. A dynamic individual who loves to learn and connect with others.
Possess a degree in engineering (applied science), computer science, science or related discipline, delivered by a recognized university.
Exposure to AI / ML / LLM. You are able to share insights about when to use AI, when not to use AI, and governance requirements.
Nice to have:* Master in engineering (applied science) and related discipline is highly desirable.
Experience in the media industry.
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next
step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:* A mandatory Criminal record check.
Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.
CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
Primary Location:
Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7
Number of Openings:
1
Work Schedule:
Full time