Senior Lead, Enterprise Solutions Architecture

Job Location:
Burnaby, BC

Employment type:
Permanent

Hours of work:
Full-time (37.5 hrs/week)

Annual Salary:
$ 155, ,000.00

No. of positions:
1

Closing date:

About the job:

As the Senior Lead, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technology landscape across Enterprise Solutions. You will lead the design and governance of solution architectures with a primary focus on SAP, GIS, and Field Mobility, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, integrated, and aligned with strategic business objectives and technology roadmaps. You will champion innovation by embedding AI-driven strategies, emerging technologies, and continuous improvement into solution architectures to accelerate business transformation.

In this senior role, you will act as a trusted technology advisor, translating business strategies into actionable roadmaps, overseeing delivery quality, and cultivating strong relationships across the organization.

What you'll do

* Lead the design, governance, and oversight of enterprise solution architectures across SAP, GIS, Field Mobility and Enterprise Integration.

* Continuously scan and evaluate emerging technologies, including advancements in AI, and proactively recommend adoption strategies, ensuring alignment with evolving industry trends and applying innovations where they can deliver meaningful value.

* Partner with senior leadership on technology strategy and architecture decisions.

* Collaborate with product owners, application owners and/or system integrators to develop scalable, operationally efficient solution designs.

* Serve as a key liaison between enterprise architecture, delivery teams, and business stakeholders. Participate in building technology roadmaps.

* Translate technology roadmap into solution vision, define scope and sequence for investment justifications. Contribute to build strong investment justifications and business cases.

* Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture blueprints, roadmaps, concepts and guidelines. Ensure compliance with security, privacy and other corporate policies.

* Support business outcomes such as improved resilience, efficiency, safety, and overall employee and/or customer experience.

* Lead cross-functional collaboration with business units, IT architects, project teams, and vendors to deliver integrated solutions.

* Mentor technical leaders and product owners, fostering innovation and technical excellence.

* Monitor and report on architecture performance metrics (e.g., solution reuse, technical debt reduction, delivery velocity).

What you bring

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent (required).

* 10+ years of IT architecture or solution design experience in large enterprise environments, including at least 5 years in architecture strategy and roadmap development.

* 5 years of leadership experience leading technical teams in large-scale technology environments.

* Proven experience delivering innovative, complex, enterprise-scale solutions. Specific utility or regulated industry experience is an asset.

* Proven experience bringing innovation, including AI approach to architecture.

* Expertise in enterprise integration patterns and tools (required).

* Experience with cloud platforms, cybersecurity principles, and data architecture (required).

* Experience with SAP S/4HANA on RISE, GIS, and Field Mobility (desired).

* Experience with business process modeling tools such as Signavio (asset).

* Professional architecture certifications (TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect Professional) preferred; security (e.g., CISSP) or agile (e.g., CSM) certifications (asset).

* Proven ability to identify, evaluate, and implement emerging technologies including generative AI is mandatory for this role. Candidates must demonstrate substantial hands-on experience applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven innovation within enterprise solution architectures. This includes designing or governing AI-enabled platforms, integrating AI capabilities into SAP, GIS, Field Mobility, or enterprise integration workflows, and driving innovation roadmaps across complex environments.

Skills & Competencies * Strong communication skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders.

* Ability to build engagement, collaborate, and foster strong relationships.

* Ability to influence, facilitate discussions, and drive consensus.

* Ability to appreciate and integrate diverse perspectives into business solutions.

* Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture workflows (e.g., business outcomes, user stories, valuation frameworks, solution design documents, roadmaps, reference architectures).

* Understanding of integration platforms supporting hybrid environments; Experience with SAP BTP Integration Services is an asset.

* Certifications and/or experience with GIS, SAP S/4HANA cross-module integration, and SAP SaaS solutions (minimum one of the above is required).

* Strong knowledge of enterprise data governance principles and analytics (required).

* Ability to lead change in complex, regulated environments.

* Understanding of utility-sector lifecycle processes such as asset maintenance, regulatory compliance, CRM, AMI, and energy management (desired).

* Awareness of utility operations such as T&D, generation, engineering, grid modernization, construction management, and OT solutions (asset).

What we offer

• A comprehensive benefits package - A minimum of 15 paid vacation days - A lifetime pension - Flexible work model, depending on your role type - Training and development courses

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PN Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada V3N 4X8

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