VP, Architecture

JDPA LIMITED

Senior technology leader defining and governing enterprise technical architecture for JD Power's engineering organization. Leading architectural standards and decisions to ensure quality and consistency across teams.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$250,000 - CA$275,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptNode.jsReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own Enterprise Architecture: Consolidate the disparate architectural conventions of acquired entities into a single set of enterprise standards, reference architectures, and playbooks.
Publish NorthStar Principles: Define, publish, and maintain the NorthStar technical principles—covering front-end frameworks, back-end services, authentication, data platform, and CI/CD—and keep them current as technology evolves.
Drive Enterprise Technology Decisions: Lead enterprise-level technology choices (e.g., AI tooling, UI stack, CIAM, data platform) with clear rationale, and ensure consistent adoption across all engineering teams.
Promote shared component libraries, common patterns, and a consistent look, feel, and engineering experience across all JD Power products.
Lead Enterprise Architecture Team: Build, mentor, and direct a small, high-caliber team of enterprise architects responsible for cross-cutting and enterprise-scope initiatives.
Lead the Architect Guild: Lead the guild of architects embedded within engineering teams under the SVP of Engineering—setting their charter, raising their capability, and aligning their work to enterprise standards while preserving team autonomy.
Establish a federated (hybrid) governance model that balances local team ownership of system-level decisions with enterprise consistency on cross-cutting concerns.
Develop architecture talent, define career paths and expectations for architects across the organization, and grow the bench of senior technical leaders.
Design and run a two-tier architecture review process: product-specific reviews led by embedded architects, and enterprise-level reviews led by the enterprise architecture team.
Stand up and lead an architecture council—comprising enterprise, embedded, and TechOps architects—to evaluate initiatives of enterprise scope and resolve cross-cutting design decisions.
Integrate architecture review into the quarterly planning cadence, with clear triggers, standardized review artifacts, and a documented path for escalation from team-level to enterprise-level review.
Centralize architecture review artifacts and decisions (e.g., ADRs) so that rationale is transparent, discoverable, and reusable across the organization.
Partner closely with the SVP of Engineering, the VP of Infrastructure, TechOps, and Security to ensure architecture decisions are practical, secure, and operable.
Provide executive leadership with clear visibility into key architectural decisions, technical risk, and standards adoption across the engineering organization.
Influence engineering teams toward sound architecture through clarity, credibility, and collaboration rather than mandate alone.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and technical architecture.
5+ years in a VP or Sr. Director architecture leadership role with responsibility for enterprise-wide standards.
Demonstrated success leading and developing teams of architects, and influencing engineering organizations toward consistent standards.
Deep, hands-on expertise across modern application architecture, including front-end frameworks (e.g., React), back-end services (e.g., Node.js, Java), and API design.
Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake) and medallion/lakehouse data architecture.
Experience selecting and standardizing enterprise capabilities such as authentication/CIAM (e.g., Auth0, SSO), CI/CD (e.g., GitLab) with DORA instrumentation, and AI/LLM tooling.
Proven success establishing architecture review processes, governance councils, and decision frameworks (e.g., ADRs) in complex, multi-team environments.
Track record of defining architecture in multi-entity or post-acquisition environments where consolidation and consistency are required.
Solid experience with company and team transformation (especially with PE backed enterprises).
Strong conviction about, and practical experience with, AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows.
Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align engineering leaders and provide strategic counsel to the C-suite.
Experience operating in private equity-backed or high-growth environments balancing growth with engineering efficiency.
Experience in data-intensive or analytics-driven businesses, particularly automotive, financial services, or information services sectors (preferred).
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability
Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to tarecruitment@jdpa.com
JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties
However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world.
JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf
You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringtechnical architecturefront-end frameworksback-end servicesAPI designcloud platformsdata platformsauthenticationCI/CDAI tooling

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentinfluencecommunicationstrategic counselcollaborationmentoringvisibilitycredibilityalignment

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringadvanced degree preferred