Senior Enterprise Architect

This is a remote position.

Overview

This is a remote consulting opportunity supporting a government client.

Role Summary

The Senior Enterprise Architect provides strategic and technical leadership across enterprise architecture domains. The role is responsible for defining and governing future-state architecture spanning business, data, application, security, and infrastructure domains while ensuring alignment with modernization initiatives and enterprise priorities.

This includes oversight of large-scale infrastructure programs such as network modernization, cloud adoption, digital workplace initiatives, and service delivery transformation, while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and suitable for remote and distributed operating environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, principles, and target-state architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains
  
• Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps aligned to enterprise priorities
  
• Provide oversight and direction to solution, data, network, security, and systems architects
  
• Review, validate, and guide architectural designs and deliverables to ensure quality and alignment with enterprise standards
  
• Mentor and support architecture and technical resources to strengthen enterprise architecture capability
  
• Lead architecture for major infrastructure initiatives including fibre expansion, satellite connectivity, and cloud transformation
  
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures
  
• Support architecture review board processes and enterprise intake governance
  
• Act as the senior technical authority for enterprise-level projects and initiatives
  
• Support development of business cases, cost models, and funding submissions
  
• Lead enterprise architecture for cloud adoption, hybrid infrastructure, and modern digital platforms
  
• Provide architectural input into procurement strategies, RFP development, and evaluation processes
  
• Identify and assess architectural risks including technical debt, security exposure, and scalability limitations
  
• Provide strategic advisory services to senior leadership and stakeholders
  

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise architecture roadmap and target-state models
  
• Architecture standards, patterns, and reference designs
  
• Project and solution architecture reviews and recommendations
  
• Business case inputs and costing models
  
• Governance artifacts for architecture review and enterprise intake
  
• Risk and dependency assessments across initiatives
  

Qualifications

Education and Certifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  
• Enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF considered an asset
  
• Cloud architecture certification such as Azure or AWS considered an asset
  

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in IT, including significant experience in enterprise architecture or senior architecture roles
  
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture strategies, target-state models, and multi-year roadmaps
  
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale modernization initiatives including infrastructure, cloud, or digital transformation