Senior Enterprise Architect – Business Architecture & Strategic Advisory

Vasa Digital Architects

Canada, United States

Remote | Full-Time Contract About Vasa Digital

Vasa Digital is a specialist Enterprise Architecture firm that helps organizations make better, faster, and more defensible decisions about technology, transformation, and investment.

We work with executives and architecture teams when major initiatives are still taking shape—helping clarify the business problem, understand the current landscape, assess options, establish the architecture direction, and create a practical path forward.

Our work connects business strategy, capabilities, applications, data, technology, cost, and risk to support executive decisions and successful delivery.

We are certified delivery partners for leading Enterprise Architecture platforms, including Ardoq and LeanIX, and work as an embedded extension of our clients’ teams through an EA-as-a-Service model.

Learn more at: https://www.vasa.digital The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Architect who can operate as a senior advisor, business architect, and hands-on practitioner.

You will work with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape major strategic initiatives from the outset—clarifying objectives, structuring ambiguous problems, assessing alternatives, developing target states and roadmaps, and preparing initiatives for execution.

The role combines strategic advisory, business architecture, portfolio analysis, executive engagement, and practical architecture delivery.

What You Will Do - Shape Strategic Initiatives

Work with executives and senior leaders to define complex business and technology problems

Lead early discovery and architecture activities for major transformation initiatives

Clarify objectives, constraints, dependencies, risks, and decision points

Develop assessments, options, recommendations, target states, and transition roadmaps

Prepare initiatives so delivery partners can begin from a strong, well-informed foundation

Support annual planning, investment decisions, and multi-year initiative shaping Provide Business Architecture and Advisory

Connect strategy, capabilities, processes, operating models, applications, data, and technology

Assess business and technology areas to identify opportunities for improvement

Determine where organizations should simplify, modernize, consolidate, invest, or retire





Translate complex findings into clear recommendations that executives can act upon

Help establish repeatable Enterprise Architecture and business advisory services Lead Major Programs

Take ownership of significant architecture engagements from discovery through recommendation and transition

Navigate complex organizations and build alignment across business, technology, finance, security, data, and delivery teams

Establish trust with SVPs, senior directors, program leaders, and delivery partners

Maintain the strategic direction of an initiative while ensuring recommendations remain practical

Guide initiatives from early concept through architecture definition and delivery readiness Application and Technology Portfolio Strategy

Lead application portfolio assessments and rationalization initiatives

Evaluate business fit, technical fit, lifecycle, cost, risk, duplication, and strategic alignment

Identify opportunities for consolidation, modernization, vendor simplification, and investment optimization

Connect portfolio decisions to business capabilities and priorities

Help executives determine what to fund, fix, simplify, modernize, consolidate, or retire Enterprise Architecture Platforms

Use LeanIX, or similar platforms to support analysis and executive decisions

Define pragmatic information structures, relationships, governance, and modeling approaches

Ensure architecture data is trusted, usable, and connected to business questions

Create views that connect capabilities, applications, technologies, organizations, costs, and risks

Turn architecture data into decision-oriented insights Facilitation and Executive Communication

Lead workshops with senior business and technology stakeholders

Ask the questions that uncover the real issue behind the stated request

Structure incomplete and inconsistent information into a coherent point of view

Present complex findings clearly and in plain language

Build concise executive presentations, recommendations, and decision materials

Help stakeholders reach alignment on difficult decisions The Person We Are Looking For





You have spent many years working across Enterprise Architecture, business architecture, strategy, transformation, and consulting.

You understand that robust architecture is about helping organizations make better decisions before significant time, money, and effort are committed.

You are comfortable moving between executive conversations, capability models, application landscapes, business cases, and detailed working sessions.

You bring structure to ambiguity, recognize patterns across complex environments, and turn analysis into a clear recommendation and path forward.

Most importantly, you can help senior leaders understand what is happening, why it matters, and what they should do next.

Required

Experience

15+ years of experience across Enterprise Architecture, business architecture, solution architecture, strategy, or transformation

Significant experience in a consulting, advisory, or senior internal architecture role

Experience leading the early discovery and shaping of large strategic initiatives

Strong business architecture and business consulting capabilities

Experience developing assessments, options analysis, target states, roadmaps, and executive recommendations

Experience in application portfolio assessment, rationalization, modernization, or technology investment

Confidence working directly with SVPs, senior directors, CIOs, and business executives

Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills

Ability to work effectively with ambiguity, incomplete data, and competing perspectives

Hands-on experience with Ardoq, LeanIX, or another Enterprise Architecture platform

Self-directed, structured, practical, and comfortable working remotely Industry Experience

Experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:

Retail, consumer goods, beauty, or eCommerce

Telecommunications

Financial services or banking

Insurance

Manufacturing or industrial

Supply chain and logistics

Healthcare or life sciences

Government or public sector How to Apply

Please submit your résumé with a short note describing:

A major strategic initiative you helped shape

Your experience working with senior executives

Your background in business architecture, portfolio strategy, or application rationalization The Enterprise Architecture platforms you have used An example of how you brought clarity to an ambiguous problem

Why this style of senior, advisory, and hands-on work suits you

📌 Senior Enterprise Architect (Canada)
🏢 Vasa Digital Architects
📍 Canada