Business Architect Job Saint John area,New Brunswick Canada,Business

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 enterprise decision‑making through disciplined Business Architecture, strong governance, and clear alignment between business structure, strategy, and technology enablement. Business Architecture provides a shared understanding of what the business does, how it delivers value, and what must change to support strategic priorities.

As a Business Architect, you own and apply Business Architecture practices that enable clear, consistent, and informed decisions across strategic decision‑making, investment planning, and delivery execution.

The Role

As a Business Architect, you are responsible for owning and evolving the enterprise Business Architecture, aligned to industry standards such as BIZBOK and/or TOGAF Business Architecture. You act as the steward of the Business Capability Model and related architectural views, ensuring they are clear, consistent, and actively used. You partner closely with Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio, and Delivery teams to provide capability‑based insights that inform planning, prioritization, and change decisions.

You provide the architectural foundation that enables consistent planning and execution of change through a shared, enterprise‑level understanding of business capabilities, value streams, and impacts.

Key Responsibilities

Own and maintain the enterprise Business Capability Model as the authoritative, governed view of the business

Define and maintain business value streams, outcomes, and capability relationships to describe how value is delivered

Apply and uphold Business Architecture standards and practices aligned to BIZBOK and/or TOGAF Business Architecture

Provide business capability insights and impact analysis used to support enterprise investment and governance decisions

Define capability target states, evolution, and transition views, identifying dependencies, sequencing logic, and organizational readiness

Conduct capability maturity and gap assessments to identify improvement opportunities, structural risks, and cross‑domain dependencies

Identify business capability redundancies and fragmentation, providing business‑driven insight to inform application and technology consolidation and optimization decisions

Facilitate cross‑functional workshops focused on capability impact, structural alignment, and transformation feasibility

Support architecture and portfolio governance by ensuring initiatives demonstrate alignment with agreed business capabilities and target states

Collaborate with Enterprise, solution, and technology architects to ensure ongoing alignment between business architecture and technology design

Coach and guide team members in Business Architecture concepts, standards, and best practices

What Success Looks Like

The Business Capability Model is clear, trusted, and actively used across the organization

Strategy and investment discussions routinely reference capabilities and value streams

Initiatives entering delivery show clear alignment with Business Architecture

Leaders have a shared understanding of business change impacts and dependencies

Capability‑level insight enables informed consolidation and optimization decisions across applications and technologies

Business Architecture is recognized as a practical, decision‑support discipline

Core Skills & Competencies

Strong Business Architecture expertise, including business capability modeling, value stream and outcome mapping, and capability maturity assessment

Hands‑on experience applying BIZBOK and/or TOGAF Business Architecture concepts

Enterprise‑level analytical and systems‑thinking skills

Capability‑based transformation and evolution planning

Clear, confident written, visual, and verbal communication, including executive audiences

Behaviors That Drive Success

Ownership & Accountability – Takes responsibility for architectural clarity and…