Enterprise Solutions Architect

Irving Oil; New Brunswick; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in Canada seeks an experienced Enterprise Solutions Architect to lead the development and governance of solutions that align with business needs. The successful candidate will integrate business processes and technology into cohesive designs, ensuring scalability and effectiveness. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and eight years of relevant experience. The role offers competitive compensation and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Flexible Benefits Plan

Paid Vacation

Wellness Support

Community Volunteer Opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT solution development disciplines.
• Strong understanding of integration, network, and security architecture.
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies like waterfall and agile.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into architectural blueprints.
• Monitor current-state solution portfolios for deficiencies.
• Develop a roadmap for the enterprise solution portfolio.

Skills

Organizational savvy

Ability to translate business capabilities into architecture requirements

Technology neutral

Experience in integrating new technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Tools

TOGAF

BPMN

ArchiMate

Job description

As an Enterprise Solutions Architect you will lead and support the development, governance, and management of solutions across the organization, ensuring they align with business needs and architectural standards. Your goal will be to integrate business capabilities, value streams, processes, and technology into cohesive solution designs that drive targeted business outcomes. Your success will depend on your ability to provide strong architectural leadership, deliver clear and strategic “as is” and “to be” solution artifacts, and guide the organization toward effective, scalable, and aligned technology solutions.

What We Offer

• Work Environment - Work in our beautiful home office building with access to a fitness facility, onsite nurse, and a café
• Competitive Compensation – Including an annual bonus plan, pension plan, and parking allowance
• Flexible Benefits Plan – Including medical and dental benefits that are both in effect from day one
• Paid Vacation – Plus an annual option to purchase additional vacation, too
• Wellness Support – With an annual wellness allowance, paid personal care days and a 24/7 Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Opportunity to give back to some amazing causes in our community – Choose when and where to make an impact with a paid volunteer day, company volunteer opportunities, and a donation matching program

Your Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and document all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
• Support product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture
• Work closely with the project management office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle
• Provide consulting support to application architects to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
• Provide deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision

Your Skills

• Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate organizational politic also skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT teams
• Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, and is more interested in results than personal preferences
• Ability to lead and coordinate solutions architects across the enterprise including driving adoption of architecture frameworks, standards and tools

Your Experience

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) plus eight years across at least two IT solution‑development disciplines, with emphasis on business and application architecture, along with experience creating architecture blueprints, strategies, roadmaps, and presenting to senior and technical audiences
• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of integration, network, and security architecture; familiarity with SDLC methodologies including waterfall, agile, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize‑and‑stabilize, and DevOps; and knowledge of ITSM and ITIL practices
• Architecture Skills & Tools: Knowledge of TOGAF and modeling languages such as BPMN and ArchiMate, plus experience using enterprise architecture tools and repositories

Irving Oil is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. We thrive on the good energy that’s created when our people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences share their unique perspectives. Diversity is key to our success and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

Job Requirements - Work Experience

Information Technology

Job Requirements - Education

Bachelors: Information Technology