Enterprise Architect Job Saint John area,New Brunswick Canada,IT/Tech

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,…