Enterprise Architect

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services, and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values:
We put safety first. We act with integrity. We are stronger together. We deliver with excellence.

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers' needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

The Enterprise Architect - Applications & ERP defines and maintains Nutrien’s enterprise application and ERP architecture direction. The role creates a transparent view of the application portfolio, shapes current-state, target-state and transition architectures, guides application rationalization and lifecycle decisions, and defines enterprise integration and application-development architecture standards.

The role provides enterprise-level direction and architecture assurance. It works through the EA COE and established governance forums to translate business capability priorities into coherent application and ERP roadmaps that reduce duplication, technical debt, integration complexity, lifecycle risk and avoidable cost.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic accountabilities

Own the multi-year ERP roadmap and keep it current with technology and macro-industry trends perspective
Maintain the enterprise application portfolio architecture, including current state, target state, transition states, lifecycle positions, strategic role, dependencies and rationalization opportunities
Manage the enterprise ERP target-state architecture and transition options across different ERP environments, collaborating with the ERP COE and business-aligned Enterprise Architects
Lead application portfolio assessments using functional fit, technical fit, lifecycle risk, duplication, integration complexity, strategic alignment and validated cost inputs
Maintain an enterprise application rationalization roadmap that identifies consolidation, retirement, modernization, replacement and reuse priorities
Define and govern enterprise integration architecture direction, principles and reference patterns across APIs, events, middleware, batch/file integration and data movement
Define and maintain enterprise application-development architecture standards and guardrails, including clean core/extensibility, modularity, interoperability, resilience, observability, secure-development alignment and CI/CD architecture expectations
Provide buy, build, reuse and retire guidance and architecture-fit criteria for major application and ERP investments
Connect application and ERP recommendations to business capabilities, outcomes, lifecycle risk, technical debt and total-cost implications
Collaborate with other enterprise architects in the team in bridging application and technology views
Collaborate with different COEs and IT delivery teams on technology roadmaps and directions

Tactical architecture enablement and assurance

Assess material initiatives for alignment with target-state application architecture, approved standards and enterprise reuse opportunities
Provide reusable reference architectures, decision criteria and patterns to Solution Architects, ERP teams and delivery organizations
Identify duplicate capabilities, unsupported technology, hidden licensing exposure, integration debt and roadmap conflicts before material commitments are made
Prepare application-domain architecture point of view (PoV), exception recommendations…