Enterprise Architect

VLink Inc; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company in Edmonton is seeking an Enterprise Architect for a 6-month contract. This hybrid role involves developing enterprise architecture aligned with strategic business plans and leading alignment discussions. Ideal candidates will have experience in cloud strategies and cybersecurity principles. Join a growing team to tackle complex IT challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing enterprise architecture aligned to strategic business plans.
• Ability to map business capabilities and identify integration gaps.
• Skills in producing architectural documentation and capability maps.

Responsibilities

• Develop current-state and future-state enterprise architecture.
• Ensure strategic alignment with Digital & IT strategy.
• Lead workshops and produce architecture documentation.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Strategic Technology Alignment

Cloud Strategy

Cybersecurity Principles

Job description

Sr US IT Recruiter @ VLink Inc | IT Recruitment

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Edmonton, AB (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months with possibility of Extension

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Job Description

• Enterprise Architecture & Capability Mapping
  • Develop current-state and future-state enterprise architecture (Conceptual, Logical and Physical) aligned to AI's strategic, business, and divisional plans.
  • Map business capabilities across funding, applied research, and revenue generating functions to supporting systems.
  • Identify system redundancies, integration gaps, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.
  • Review the application and system landscape across corporate services, research operations, client-facing processes, and operational technology.
  • Recommend rationalization, consolidation, or modernization approaches.
• Strategic Technology Alignment
  • Ensure recommendations align with the Digital & IT Strategy, Data Program, AI Strategy, cloud strategy, and cybersecurity principles.
  • Provide direction on how cloud, SaaS, network, and data-center components should integrate and support enterprise capabilities.
  • Support development of multi-year architecture roadmaps.
  • Provide guidance—not hands-on design—on solution patterns, integrations, and platform alignment (CRM, HRIS, Finance, Contract Management, Data Management and Governance).
  • Engage executives, business units, IT teams, and subsidiaries to validate processes, requirements, and architectural decisions.
  • Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment discussions.
  • Produce architecture documentation, capability maps, diagrams, and recommended future-state options.
  • Provide inputs into investment planning, sequencing, and prioritization.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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