About Us
RJC Engineers is a well-established, employee-owned engineering firm with a broad geographic footprint and deep roots across Canada and the United States. We are leaders in structural engineering, building science, structural restoration, structural glass engineering, parking facility design, and building energy modelling.
What sets us apart?
Our commitment to clients, cutting-edge technology, collaborative culture, and the passion of our people. We’re driven by a purpose: to positively impact our communities and invest in our team’s growth and success.
At RJC, you’ll join an inclusive, fast-paced team tackling exciting and complex projects. You’ll work alongside industry-leading experts, explore emerging technologies, and be supported in your continuous professional development.
Being an RJC Professional
We build our team around five key attributes:
- Creative Mindset – You bring fresh ideas, challenge assumptions, and turn obstacles into opportunities.
- Proactive Approach – You take initiative, anticipate challenges, and seek ways to create a positive impact.
- Supportive Teamwork – You foster a culture of inclusivity, respect, and collaboration, helping others succeed.
- Trusted Advisor – You act with integrity, expertise, and honesty, earning the confidence of clients and colleagues.
- Lead with Purpose – You empower, support, and guide others, driving meaningful results.
Location: Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton or Calgary
Compensation: $190,000 – $220,000
The Opportunity
The Vice President, Business Technology is a strategic senior leadership role responsible for enabling organizational capability through technology, information, enterprise systems, and digital services.
Reporting to an Executive Principal, and working closely with operational and function leaders across the organization, this role ensures RJC has the systems, infrastructure, information, governance, and technology capabilities necessary to support operational excellence, informed decision-making, effective collaboration, and sustainable growth.
The leader in this role will serve as both a strategic advisor and operational leader, helping ensure that technology investments deliver meaningful business outcomes while supporting RJC's long-term vision.
A critical component of this role will be the ongoing stewardship, optimization, governance, and evolution of RJC's enterprise business systems, including the firm's ERP platform. The successful candidate will help ensure these investments continue to strengthen business processes, improve data quality, enable organizational effectiveness, and support future growth.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute a Business Technology strategy aligned with RJC’s purpose, vision, and long-term priorities, ensuring technology investments strengthen operations, employee experience, client value, and measurable business outcomes.
- Provide strategic leadership that builds a high-performing, innovative, service-focused team and strengthens connection across the organization.
- Collaborate with business and functional leaders to champion organizational change and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including analytics, automation, and AI, that deliver positive business outcomes.
Governance, Risk, and Resilience
Establish and maintain a business technology governance framework, including policies, standards, and data governance practices, to ensure the integrity, security, accessibility, and regulatory compliance of organizational information and business systems.
- Set direction for cybersecurity and infrastructure risk management, ensuring gaps are identified, prioritized, and addressed.
- Direct business continuity, disaster recovery, and technology resilience planning to ensure uninterrupted operations and effective risk mitigation.
Business Partnership & Enterprise Systems
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, partnering across the organization to understand needs and translate them into scalable technology solutions that enhance productivity and support business objectives.
- Provide executive-level leadership for RJC’s ERP platform and enterprise business systems, including governance, optimization, integration, reporting, and future evolution, ensuring systems, data, and knowledge management support effective processes, decision-making, collaboration, and growth.
Operational Oversight, Team & Stewardship
- Oversee the delivery and performance of technology infrastructure, applications, and services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and an exceptional user experience.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators and service metrics to measure operational effectiveness, project outcomes, and team performance.
- Oversee workforce planning, budgeting, forecasting, vendor and contract management, and financial stewardship to optimize the value of technology investments across the organization.
Professional Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in business technology, enterprise systems, business operations, or related fields, including 6+ years leading enterprise technology functions and organizational change.
- Proven experience overseeing ERP platforms and enterprise business applications through implementation, stabilization, optimization, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Strong ability to align technology investments with business strategy, operational effectiveness, employee experience, client value, and measurable outcomes.
- Deep understanding of cybersecurity, privacy, risk management, data governance, enterprise architecture, information management, and emerging technology enablement.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business decisions.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline; equivalent experience will be considered.
Why Join RJC?
This is an opportunity to help shape the future of one of Canada's leading employee-owned engineering firms.
As Vice President, Business Technology, you will:
- Play a key role in advancing RJC's Purpose, Promise, Vision, and long-term strategic priorities.
- Provide leadership for one of the firm's most significant business transformation initiatives through the continued evolution of our ERP platform and enterprise business systems.
- Help strengthen the technology, information, and knowledge capabilities that enable our people to do their best work.
- Partner with leaders across the organization to improve collaboration, decision-making, innovation, and organizational effectiveness.
- Contribute to the long-term success of an employee-owned organization committed to technical excellence, continuous learning, and meaningful impact.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation and performance-based bonus program.
- Opportunity to participate in RJC's share ownership program.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including Health Care Spending Account.
- Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program.
- RRSP matching program.
- A collaborative and supportive employee-owned culture.
- Meaningful opportunities for professional growth and leadership development.
Attention Staffing & Recruitment Agencies: RJC Engineers, will not pay fees for recruitment activities related to the hiring of a candidate unless a written service agreement has been established between a duly authorized representative of our Corporate Human Resources department and the recruitment/placement firm. In addition, to qualify for recruitment fees, all candidate resumes must be submitted to RJC Engineers, through our Corporate Human Resources department. Resumes and profiles sent to our managers without the express agreement of our Corporate Human Resources department will not be eligible for a fee
Preferred
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6 year(s): Leading organizational change
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15 year(s): Progressive leadership experience in business technology
