Director Enterprise Architect
Sobeys
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Advance Enterprise Architecture practice, marrying industry best practices with a pragmatic approach and roadmap relative to identified needs.
- Articulate value proposition and communicate / educate organization on the EA practice; promote the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation and support for technology innovation, which drives the organization's top and bottom lines.
- Own approach to organizing / maintaining “living” view of Empire enterprise architecture, deploy across EAs within Solution teams.
- Own continuously updating target state architecture of application and technology portfolio.
- Own architectural standards, frameworks, and policies for acquisition / implementation of IT technologies (hardware and software); monitor and measure adoption and adherence. through Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB) and Solution Architecture Review Board (SARB).
- Influence product / vendor direction and integrate technology from an architectural perspective within the business environment.
- Oversee team that Maps current and target state business processes to determine change impacts for major technology transformation projects.
- Oversee team that Maps and maintain view of critical business processes, including key system interactions.
- Continuously refine roadmap to achieve target state Enterprise Architecture in line with enterprise and technology strategy (with Technology , Strategy and Road Mapping teams).
- Build technology modernization, rationalization and decommissioning strategies, and associated impacts optimize portfolio composition through reuse, adoption of emerging technologies and reduction of architectural complexity (with Solutions teams).
- An undergraduate or master's degree in computer science or business.
- 12+ years of experience, including leading the Enterprise Architecture function for a large enterprise (preferably in retail).
- Extensive knowledge of IT Business Processes.
- Experience leading large scale, long-term enterprise project implementation, leading a large team with multi disciplines or matrix, and developing a strategic plan.