Senior Enterprise Architect

The Senior Enterprise Architect plays a key leadership role in shaping the organization’s end-to-end technology ecosystem. This position is accountable for developing and maintaining an enterprise-wide architecture vision, ensuring alignment between technology strategies and business priorities, and establishing the architecture standards, principles, and governance required to guide long-term modernization and transformation initiatives.

Tasks

1. Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Frameworks

• Develop, maintain, and evolve Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks, standards, and governance models.
• Define architectural principles that ensure consistency, integration, and scalability across systems and platforms.
• Promote the organization’s architecture vision and strategy across all teams and leadership.

2. Technology & Business Alignment

• Translate business objectives, operating models, and organizational processes into coherent technical architectures.
• Ensure that technology roadmaps, target architectures, and investment decisions support strategic business priorities.

3. Current & Target State Architecture

• Assess the current state of applications, data, infrastructure, and business capabilities.
• Define future-state architectures that reduce redundancy, improve interoperability, and support long-term modernization.
• Develop transition plans and roadmaps to guide phased implementation.

4. Transformation & Modernization Leadership

• Provide architectural leadership for large-scale transformation programs, including digital modernization initiatives.
• Ensure project solutions adhere to enterprise standards and integrate effectively with existing environments.

5. Standards, Governance & Risk Management

• Establish and enforce architecture review processes, technology standards, and compliance guidelines.
• Identify risks, security implications, and technical constraints within proposed solutions.
• Partner with security teams to ensure alignment with cybersecurity and privacy requirements.

6. Technology Assessment & Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms, assessing their applicability and value to the organization.
• Recommend solutions that improve performance, efficiency, and long-term sustainability.

7. Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with executives, business leaders, solution architects, engineering teams, and external partners.
• Communicate architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment across projects, programs, and business units.

8. Business Process & Capability Modeling

• Document and model business processes, information flows, and capability maps to inform architectural decisions.
• Provide insight into cross-functional dependencies and integration points.

9. Support for Delivery Teams

• Guide solution architects, development teams, and infrastructure teams in applying enterprise architecture standards.
• Provide oversight on architecture decisions throughout the project lifecycle.

10. Cost Optimization & Technical Debt Management

• Assess existing systems for cost-effectiveness, performance, and maintainability.
• Recommend strategies to reduce technical debt and optimize technology investments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field Master’s degree or MBA (asset)

10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technical leadership roles

• Knowledge of TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, or similar EA standards
• Proven ability to define current-state and target-state architectures
• Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and principles

Deep understanding of modern application architectures (microservices, APIs, integration patterns)

• Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid environments
• Strong understanding of data architecture, security architecture, and infrastructure architecture
• Knowledge of enterprise integration, identity management, and system interoperability
• Experience mapping business processes, capabilities, and information flows
• Ability to design scalable, integrated, cost-effective solutions
• Experience identifying redundancies, technical debt, and modernization opportunities

Experience implementing architecture review processes and governance models

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, privacy requirements, and risk management frameworks
• Ability to evaluate proposed solutions for compliance, integration, and risk impact

Experience using architecture modeling tools (e.g., Sparx EA, ArchiMate, Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io)

• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, ITIL practices
• Experience with cloud adoption frameworks and modernization methodologies