Enterprise Architect

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 its Enterprise Architecture capability to improve how complex business and technology decisions are shaped across the organization. The practice brings together business needs, applications, data, integrations, security, and technology so that major initiatives can move forward with clear direction and fewer avoidable gaps.
As an Enterprise Architect, you shape initiatives before and during delivery by defining the architecture approach, assessing options, identifying affected areas, and setting practical guardrails. This role will focus primarily on Finance initiatives while supporting other business priorities where required.

The Role  You work with business leaders, delivery teams, and technology specialists to turn business needs into clear architecture direction. You look beyond an individual system or project to understand wider impacts, dependencies, and longer-term implications. You provide architecture leadership for significant initiatives, from early problem framing and option assessment through solution design and key delivery decisions. You do not replace the teams accountable for delivery;

you make sure they have the direction, constraints, and decisions needed to deliver their part. You also contribute to the standards, roadmaps, patterns, and architecture views used to guide consistent decisions across Cooke.

Key Responsibilities   Lead architecture work for complex business and technology initiatives, establishing the scope, approach, affected areas, and key decisions
Work with business stakeholders to understand the problem, desired outcomes, operating constraints, and capability needs
Develop current-state, target-state, and transition views that give delivery teams a clear and practical direction
Assess solution and vendor options, explaining the trade-offs across business value, cost, risk, complexity, supportability, and strategic fit
Identify impacts and dependencies across processes, applications, data, integrations, security, infrastructure, operations, and affected companies
Define architecture guardrails and decision criteria, and remain engaged through delivery when material design choices or exceptions arise
Review proposed designs and recommendations to identify gaps, duplication, unsupported assumptions, and decisions requiring escalation
Support Architecture Review Board and portfolio governance with clear, evidence-based architecture assessments
Develop and maintain relevant roadmaps, principles, standards, reference models, and reusable solution patterns
Identify opportunities to simplify the application landscape, improve reuse, reduce fragmentation, and strengthen shared capabilities
Support acquisition and integration assessments where business or technology decisions have wider enterprise implications
Work across Data, Integration, Security, Infrastructure, Application, and Delivery teams to maintain end-to-end alignment
What Success Looks Like   Business and technology leaders have clear options and understand the implications of major decisions
Initiatives move into delivery with an agreed architecture approach, visible dependencies, and practical guardrails
Material risks, gaps, and cross-team impacts are identified early enough to influence the outcome
Delivery teams understand the architecture guardrails that apply and know when material design changes require further architecture review.
Roadmaps and target-state views are grounded in business priorities and used to guide investment and sequencing
Architecture governance improves decision quality without taking ownership away from accountable delivery teams
Opportunities for simplification, reuse, and consolidation are translated into actionable decisions
Core Skills & Competencies   Broad architecture experience spanning business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, security, and technology
Ability to frame complex problems and translate business needs into clear architecture direction
Experience leading architecture across significant initiatives with multiple teams, systems, and stakeholders
Strong option assessment and decision-support skills, including the ability to explain trade-offs plainly
Experience developing roadmaps, target states, transition plans, principles, standards, and reusable patterns
Ability to identify cross-functional impacts, dependencies, ownership gaps, and delivery constraints
Working knowledge of enterprise applications, cloud platforms, data, integration, security, and operational support models
Clear written, visual, and verbal communication with senior business, technology, and delivery stakeholders
Behaviors That Drive Success   Ownership &…