Enterprise Architect

Cooke Aquaculture Inc. • City of Saint John, NB

12d

About The Position

Cooke is a global seafood company with operations in North America, Europe, South America and Australia. Our company’s success is driven by our dynamic, highly skilled, and innovative management team, supported by dedicated employees who live in coastal communities and contribute to the local area’s economy and sense of community.

Cooke is strengthening its Enterprise Architecture capability to improve how complex business and technology decisions are shaped across the organization. The practice brings together business needs, applications, data, integrations, security, and technology so that major initiatives can move forward with clear direction and fewer avoidable gaps.

As an Enterprise Architect, you shape initiatives before and during delivery by defining the architecture approach, assessing options, identifying affected areas, and setting practical guardrails. This role will focus primarily on Finance initiatives while supporting other business priorities where required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, technology strategy, or complex transformation roles
• Demonstrated experience providing architecture leadership across business and technology initiatives
• Experience assessing commercial platforms, vendor proposals, custom solutions, integrations, and technology investments
• Experience working across business, application, data, integration, security, infrastructure, and operational concerns
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and support decisions in environments with competing priorities
• Broad architecture experience spanning business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, security, and technology
• Ability to frame complex problems and translate business needs into clear architecture direction
• Experience leading architecture across significant initiatives with multiple teams, systems, and stakeholders
• Strong option assessment and decision-support skills, including the ability to explain trade-offs plainly
• Experience developing roadmaps, target states, transition plans, principles, standards, and reusable patterns
• Ability to identify cross-functional impacts, dependencies, ownership gaps, and delivery constraints
• Working knowledge of enterprise applications, cloud platforms, data, integration, security, and operational support models
• Clear written, visual, and verbal communication with senior business, technology, and delivery stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a complex, multi-company, acquisition-driven, or federated organization is an asset
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks and repository tools is an asset

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture work for complex business and technology initiatives, establishing the scope, approach, affected areas, and key decisions
• Work with business stakeholders to understand the problem, desired outcomes, operating constraints, and capability needs
• Develop current-state, target-state, and transition views that give delivery teams a clear and practical direction
• Assess solution and vendor options, explaining the trade-offs across business value, cost, risk, complexity, supportability, and strategic fit
• Identify impacts and dependencies across processes, applications, data, integrations, security, infrastructure, operations, and affected companies
• Define architecture guardrails and decision criteria, and remain engaged through delivery when material design choices or exceptions arise
• Review proposed designs and recommendations to identify gaps, duplication, unsupported assumptions, and decisions requiring escalation
• Support Architecture Review Board and portfolio governance with clear, evidence-based architecture assessments
• Develop and maintain relevant roadmaps, principles, standards, reference models, and reusable solution patterns
• Identify opportunities to simplify the application landscape, improve reuse, reduce fragmentation, and strengthen shared capabilities
• Support acquisition and integration assessments where business or technology decisions have wider enterprise implications
• Work across Data, Integration, Security, Infrastructure, Application, and Delivery teams to maintain end-to-end alignment

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Includes coverage for dental, vision, and extended medical care.
• Insurance: Life and disability insurance provided for financial security.
• Support Services: Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Financial Planning: Opportunity for RRSP matching to support your retirement savings.
• Time Off: Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave for work-life balance.
• Wellness: Wellness programs and access to on-site gym facilities (available in some locations).
• Career Development: Professional growth opportunities and avenues for advancement.
• Perks: Employee discounts on company products or services.
• Convenience: On-site parking or parking allowance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior