028 EN - Platform Owner, Automation Platforms
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About the Role
Export Development Canada is seeking a Platform Owner for Automation Platforms to own the end-to-end health, strategy, and value realization of enterprise automation and workflow platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise vision and multi year roadmap for intelligent automation and workflow platforms
- Align platform capabilities to EDC's business priorities, transformation initiatives, and operating model
- Balance run, grow, and transform demands while managing technical debt and platform sustainability
- Partner with Technical Leads, Developers, BAs, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are designed and delivered in line with platform standards
- Work closely with the Business Enablement team and joint Automation COE to assess, shape, and size RPA and workflow automation opportunities
- Establish and enforce platform governance, standards, and guardrails
- Act as the final decision authority for platform design choices, customization vs configuration, and onboarding of new use cases
- Ensure platform changes align with enterprise architecture, security, and risk requirements
- Work in close collaboration with other platform owners and platform teams (e.g., Salesforce, integration platforms, data platforms)
- Own strategic relationships with platform vendors and implementation partners
- Partner with the Automation COE and GenAI COE to evaluate and enable AI augmented automation use cases
Requirements
- Post secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working with enterprise automation, workflow, or low code platforms
- Demonstrated experience acting as a platform owner, product owner, or technical product lead
- Strong hands on understanding of UiPath, ServiceNow CSM/App Engine/Workflow Data Fabric, and Microsoft Power Platform
- Solid understanding of enterprise architecture principles, integration patterns and APIs, and security/risk/compliance in regulated environments
- Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision making
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
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Position Overview
- The Platform Owner, Automation Platforms is accountable for the end to end health, strategy, and value realization of EDC's enterprise automation and workflow platforms.
- Working closely with the Automation COE, business leaders, architecture, security, delivery teams, platform owners, and vendors, this role ensures the platforms are fit for purpose, scalable, secure, and compliant.
- This role owns the vision, roadmap, governance, and support operating model for the automation platforms, developed in close collaboration with the business arm of the Automation COE and relevant platform teams.
- Platforms in scope include: UiPath, ServiceNow CSM/App Engine/Workflow Data Fabric, Microsoft Power Platform, and supporting Azure based integration and automation services.
What you will be doing
- Define and own the enterprise vision and multi year roadmap for intelligent automation and workflow platforms
- Align platform capabilities to EDC's business priorities, transformation initiatives, and operating model
- Balance run, grow, and transform demands while managing technical debt and platform sustainability
- Partner with Technical Leads, Developers, BAs, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are designed and delivered in line with platform standards
- Work closely with the Business Enablement team and joint Automation COE to assess, shape, and size RPA and workflow automation opportunities
- Establish and enforce platform governance, standards, and guardrails
- Act as the final decision authority for platform design choices, customization vs configuration, and onboarding of new use cases
- Ensure platform changes align with enterprise architecture, security, and risk requirements
- Work in close collaboration with other platform owners and platform teams (e.g., Salesforce, integration platforms, data platforms)
- Own strategic relationships with platform vendors and implementation partners
- Partner with the Automation COE and GenAI COE to evaluate and enable AI augmented automation use cases
What we are looking for
- Post secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working with enterprise automation, workflow, or low code platforms
- Demonstrated experience acting as a platform owner, product owner, or technical product lead
- Strong hands on understanding of UiPath, ServiceNow CSM/App Engine/Workflow Data Fabric, and Microsoft Power Platform
- Solid understanding of enterprise architecture principles, integration patterns and APIs, and security/risk/compliance in regulated environments
- Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision making
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
What will make you stand out
- Experience working within or alongside an Automation COE or enterprise enablement function
- Proven ability to govern automation delivery across multiple teams and vendors while maintaining delivery velocity
- Experience integrating GenAI capabilities into enterprise automation platforms within defined risk and governance frameworks
- Strong understanding of platform governance models and value based prioritization
- Experience enabling and governing citizen development programs
- Bilingual in both official languages (English and French)
Compensation Details
- Platform Owner 18: Salaries typically range from CAD 96,557 to CAD 128,743 annually, based on qualifications and experiences, plus a performance based incentive
Work Arrangement
- Export Development Canada operates in a hybrid work environment, with a current requirement of two in office days per week, increasing to three days per week in September 2026 (subject to change)
- This role can be performed from EDC's headquarters in Ottawa or from one of our Community Hubs located in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Brossard, Laval, Calgary, Halifax, or Vancouver
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