Job Summary
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the development of complex business applications in a software engineering environment. This role acts as a liaison between the technical teams and business stakeholders to facilitate, conceptualize and define systems solutions while ensuring the solutions are aligned with the system architecture.
What you will do
•Define and develop platform roadmaps and technology lifecycles, transformational initiatives, M&A technology due diligence and integration plans, and solution design and oversight across a wide and diverse portfolio of solutions.
•Create standards, models, and guiding principles to help define and govern the future state architecture, organization structure, business processes, information systems and infrastructure.
•Provide consultative services on projects focused on architecture compliance, development and implementation of strategic technological directives.
•Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives, for approval, funding and prioritization.
•Solution architect providing technical guidance and training others within capability scope.
•Represent the EA organization for application, data, and infrastructure domain specific initiatives by managing, and at times leading these initiatives from an EA perspective.
•Support architecting cloud-based applications, mobile applications and infrastructure, web services, middleware and databases needed to support the future state technology platform.
•Establish the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high level business models and preparing business cases.
•Ensures coordination and completion of design review based on formalized standards.
•Ensure compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities.
•Lead vendor selection process and provides recommendations for investment in technology solutions, supported by appropriate ROI, total cost of ownership, and/or cost benefit analyses.
•Develop architectural standards and roadmaps to migrate to standards that will add significant value to the business.
•Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture models for CDW.
•Direct business stakeholders to follow enterprise architecture guidance for all projects within capability scope.
What we expect of you
•Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of Information Technology experience, OR
•11 years total Information Technology experience.
•5 years functioning as an Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architecture certified or equivalent experience using industry standards such as TOGAF.
•Experience developing architectural standards and road maps.
•Experience being an evangelist for a bigger picture strategy, integrating the business and technological vision, connecting the dots across business needs, technologies, processes, and information.
•Proven experience in large-complex technical efforts, maximizing current investment and optimizing process complexity.
•Proven experience with future state architecture, taking business to the next level, creating competitive advantage to the business.
•Proven experience in large, complex scale projects.
•Solid presentation skills, ability to effectively influence.
•Experience developing architectural standards and road maps.
•Able to work autonomously and exhibit excellent judgment.
•Strong technical leadership of development teams and vendors.
•Ability to work in a team in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the organization including suppliers, partners and customers.
•Possess a strong business and technical acumen to contribute to the strategic business plan.
Compensation
Salaries are based on a 40-hour workweek, and paid on a bi-weekly payroll schedule.
Pay range: $125,000 - $173,000 CAD depending on experience and skill set.
About Us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what's possible through technology. As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes.
