Find Your Spot at Humber
At Humber, our career paths open up a world of infinite possibilities for you to explore. People are at the heart of the Humber experience. Here, every day we work shoulder to shoulder to deliver excellence, and in doing so, we redefine what it means to be a leader in polytechnic education. Humber employees are a diverse group of committed, caring and fun-loving people.
We take finding and growing the right talent very seriously. We strive to find and nurture extraordinary employees who bring their best each day.
If you are interested in working in higher education and are looking to contribute to the largest Polytechnic in Ontario, as we shape the future of our students and communities, here is your opportunity to join our team.
Job Details:
Position Title: Portfolio Product Owner, Enterprise Architect
Status: Full-Time Administration
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Faculty/Department: Information Technology Services
Campus/Location: North Campus – must be comfortable working hybrid, a minimum of four (4) days on-site.
Starting Salary Range: $120,232 - $134,806; starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience. *
About the Information Technology Services at Humber:
Humber Digital Innovation, Information Technology Services provides leadership for the continuous development of digital experiences delivered on a secure, flexible, and dependable IT environment built on a foundation of transparency, collaboration, client focus, and respect. Together we transform client ideas into results, leverage technology to enable student engagement and success, support students and employees in the journey of discovery, deliver integrated digital solutions to improve collaboration and communication across the Humber community, and improve business processes to enable better decision-making. Digital Innovation, Information Technology Services is always striving to enhance the digital experience for students, staff, and visitors.
About the Portfolio Product Owner - Enterprise Architect Role:
Under the general direction of the Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services, the Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and evolving Humber’s enterprise technology strategy, ensuring alignment between institutional priorities, digital initiatives, and the overall technology landscape. You will provide strategic direction across platforms, products, and integrations, guiding enterprise level decisions that shape Humber’s digital future. Working closely with senior leadership, Product Owners, and Architects, you will ensure that technology investments are intentional, scalable, and aligned with long term institutional outcomes. You will play a key role in evaluating emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, and determining their applicability within Humber’s academic and administrative environment. Ultimately, you are accountable for ensuring that Humber’s technology ecosystem is cohesive, future ready, and capable of supporting innovation at scale.
How You Work Within Humber’s Product and Architecture Model
Humber operates within a product management model supported by a layered architecture approach. As the Enterprise Architect, you operate at the institutional level, ensuring alignment between strategic goals, business priorities, product delivery, and technology roadmaps, while driving the identification, assessment, and mitigation of digital risk across the institution.
You will partner with senior leadership to shape enterprise solutions and define product and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities, regulatory requirements, and long-term strategic direction. You will also collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Privacy teams to assess and manage digital risk, ensuring that architectural decisions support secure, compliant, and responsible use of technology.
In this role, you provide direction and alignment across the product and architecture ecosystem:
Business Product Owners (BPOs): who are responsible for defining business value, client needs, and desired outcomes. You provide strategic direction to ensure these outcomes are supported by scalable, sustainable, and enterprise-aligned capabilities.
Technology Product Owners (TPOs): who are responsible for delivery execution, backlog management, and platform integrity. You guide and govern architectural direction to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term strategy.
Applications and Solution Architects: who design and implement platform-specific solutions. You establish architectural standards, provide decision frameworks, and ensure consistency across all implementations within the enterprise landscape.
In this model, you are accountable for setting up enterprise architectural direction, enabling informed decision-making, and ensuring that all product and platform-level work contribute to a cohesive, scalable, risk-aware, and future-ready digital ecosystem.
Ensure technology investments and platform decisions are aligned with enterprise priorities, maximizing value, long term sustainability, scalability, and resilience of the enterprise technology landscape.
Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, assessing their impact, value, and risk within the institutional context.
Ensure alignment and coherence across the enterprise technology landscape, including academic systems, administrative platforms, CRM, identity, data, and integration layers.
Identify, assess, and communicate enterprise level risks related to technology, architecture, data, and security, enabling informed decision making at the leadership level.
Drive cross-portfolio alignment by working with senior leadership, Product Owners, Architects, and technical leaders to manage dependencies and ensure cohesive solution design.
Participate in and contribute to enterprise governance forums, both internally and externally, providing architectural insight and recommendations for strategic initiatives, including engagement with communities such as EDUCAUSE, ITANA, and other relevant higher education and enterprise architecture networks.
