Designing, delivering and managing complete enterprise architecture solutions, including capability-based roadmaps, target-state architectures, reference architectures, and governance.
Demonstrating leadership across the architect community and showing a passion for technology, business outcomes, and pragmatic execution.
Translating business outcomes (uptime, order accuracy, speed of service, brand trust, revenue protection) into reliability and observability architectural requirements.
Working as a stream lead at CIO/CTO level for an internal or external client.
Owning enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap for QSR restaurant and digital ecosystems, aligned to business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities (speed of service, reliability, throughput).
Defining architecture standards and governance including reference architectures, patterns, principles, and review processes to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
12+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or technology leadership, ideally within QSR, retail, hospitality, or consumer-facing operational technology environments.
Demonstrated expertise across restaurant and commerce systems (POS, KDS, BOH, ordering, loyalty, payments, delivery integrations).
Experience with QSR Hardware including Kiosk, POS, Printers.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), integration architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, and data architecture.
Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and roadmaps; ability to influence adoption across engineering and product teams.
Proven leadership of architecture teams or cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple workstreams.
Excellent communication, executive stakeholder management, and ability to connect technology choices to measurable business outcomes.
Ability to influence decision makers and drive delivery.

Benefits

Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
Company paid holidays
Personal Days
Sick Leave
Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
Life and disability insurance
Employee assistance programs
Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architecturesolution architecturecloud platformsintegration architecturesAPIsmicroservicesevent-driven patternsdata architecturearchitecture governancereference architectures

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementinfluencepragmatic executionbusiness outcome translationcross-functional collaborationdecision-makingorganizational skillsstrategic thinking