Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

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: $ – $ 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. This position may be considered for annual bonus compensation.

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 for ERP (JD Edwards) initiatives, including data structures, extensions, interfaces, and the flow of ERP data into analytics.

AI & Agent Governance

• Set the governance model for how AI agents and assistants reach enterprise data and systems: identity, entitlements, approval thresholds, auditability, and lifecycle.
• Define what it takes for our estate to be AI-ready—semantic clarity, metadata quality, and certified datasets agents and analytics both depend on.

Self-Service & Citizen Development Governance

• Set the governance model for business-built solutions: who may build what, on which platforms, with which data.
• Design guardrails that enable business teams rather than restrict them, and a review path for promoting what they build into supported assets.

Architecture Assurance & Advisory

• Instruct the architecture aspects of new work during opportunity and scoping, then act as referent architect through design and delivery.
• Review existing architectures across the estate, identify gaps, risk, and technical debt, and sequence remediation into pragmatic roadmaps.
• Advise on build-versus-buy and technology selection, leading structured platform and vendor evaluation including total cost of ownership.
• Chair architecture review for significant designs,…