Senior Enterprise Architect
SereneAid
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edmonton • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservices
About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms, assessing their applicability and value to the organization
- Recommend solutions that improve performance, efficiency, and long-term sustainability
- Work closely with executives, business leaders, solution architects, engineering teams, and external partners
- Communicate architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Document and model business processes, information flows, and capability maps to inform architectural decisions
- Guide solution architects, development teams, and infrastructure teams in applying enterprise architecture standards
- 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
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Hard skills
Enterprise Architecturesolution architectureTOGAFZachmanGartnermicroservicesAPIsdata architecturecloud platformscybersecurity
Soft skills
architectural leadershipcommunicationcollaborationrisk managementstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementprocess documentationtechnical guidancedecision-making
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information SystemsBachelor's degree in EngineeringMaster's degreeMBA