Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Colas IS Support is the information technology arm of the North America business for Colas and is based in Denver, Colorado. Colas ISS strives to make Colas an industry leader through developing custom mobile applications and business intelligence tools, supporting core applications, maintaining our infrastructure, and much more. Through a partnership with the Colas Companies in the USA & Canada Colas IS Support helps empower our employees for success while also providing direct contact with users and other innovators across the organization.

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Job Description:

MISSION Colas is one of North America's largest road and infrastructure groups, and Colas ISS provides the technology and data services that keep the business running. We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to be the design authority across three pillars—Data Engineering, Application Development, and our ERP ecosystem—and across the integration that connects them. This is a broad role. You will set target-state architectures, standards, and integration strategy, and you will be the architect brought into new initiatives as they arise.

We are not looking for an expert in all three pillars. We are looking for a strong architect with real depth in at least one, the range to operate credibly across the others, and the appetite to take on ground you have not covered before. You set direction; delivery teams own implementation. Your counterparts are the Senior Data Engineer, who owns the build of our Databricks platform, the Application Development leads, and the JD Edwards team on ERP data, interfaces, and extensions.

With all three you hold the line on standards while staying pragmatic about delivery reality, cost, and legacy constraints, and you keep Colas ISS aligned with the architecture direction of the Colas group.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Compensation*: $ – $ USD
* Estimated target starting compensation; final compensation will be determined based on an assessment of an individual's qualifications, education, and experience relevant to the role. Benefits:
Full-time salaried exempt employees are eligible for Colas Group benefits, as outlined in the plan documents. Available benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, term life insurance, supplemental life insurance, 401(K) with company match, short- and long-term disability. Other benefits include paid holidays, paid sick leave, accrued vacation time off, and paid parental leave. Other Compensation:
This position may be considered for annual bonus compensation.

RESPONSIBILITIES Target-State Architecture & Standards Establish and maintain the target-state architecture across the three pillars, aligned to business strategy, IT cost objectives, and the security strategy. Publish and apply reference architectures, design patterns, and standards, and evolve the architecture reference framework. Encode standards as templates, reference implementations, and golden paths, so the approved way to deliver is also the easiest way.

Architecture Across the Three Pillars Define the integration strategy that connects them: service bus and API patterns, event-driven and batch integration, master data flows, and agent-to-system standards such as MCP. Own the enterprise data governance framework—data domains, ownership and stewardship, policy, classification, and quality standards. Provide architecture direction for Application Development initiatives, including application, API, and integration patterns. Provide architecture direction…