Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect Specialist

Cenovus Energy; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian energy company is seeking a Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect Specialist in Calgary. This role involves defining and implementing secure enterprise architectures while aligning cybersecurity with business objectives. The ideal candidate requires extensive experience, certification, and the ability to lead within a complex environment. Join a top employer committed to employee development and competitive rewards.

Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Minimum 12 years in enterprise architecture or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and implement secure enterprise architectures.
• Ensure architecture roadmaps reflect current threats and business priorities.
• Drive adoption of zero trust and identity-first security models.
• Govern and review security designs across enterprise projects.

Skills

Cybersecurity frameworks

Zero trust models

Identity-first security

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

TOGAF certification

Zachman certification

Job description

Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 10/30/2025

About this opportunity

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Architecture, the Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect Specialist will define, design, and implement secure enterprise architectures across our IT, OT, and cloud environments. This role will be a strategic advisor, aligning business and cybersecurity objectives, while helping advance Cenovus’s cyber maturity and resilience posture. The successful candidate will require deep expertise in security frameworks, understand the latest risk mitigation technologies, zero trust models, identity-first security, and enterprise-scale risk management.

What you’ll do

• Ensure that enterprise cybersecurity architecture roadmaps reflect current and emerging threats, business priorities, and technology trends.
• Partner with risk management to assess threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring alignment of architecture with risk mitigation strategies.
• Drive the adoption of zero trust, identity-first, and cloud security models, defining secure reference architectures across networks, applications, data, and cloud environments (Azure, AWS, OT/IoT).
• Ensure architectural compliance with regulatory and industry standards, supporting audits, penetration tests, and compliance assessments by providing necessary architectural context.
• Govern and review security designs across enterprise projects, providing risk-based guidance while establishing and integrating architectural standards, patterns, and controls for IT and OT environments.
• Provide technical leadership for cybersecurity initiatives, including identifying protection, cloud security, data loss prevention, and threat detection/response.

Who you are

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 12 years in enterprise architecture or related roles.
• TOGAF, Zachman, AWS/Azure Architect, or similar certifications.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT October 29, 2025.

The Cenovus experience

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with operations across Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects, crude oil and natural gas production, and downstream refining and marketing operations.

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Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people and our company. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit Cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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