Portfolio Architect, Technology Resilience Contract End: April 30, 2027 Raise is currently hiring a Portfolio Architect, Technology Resilience on behalf of our client. Our Client is one of North America's leading energy infrastructure companies with operations in natural gas, oil and power industries throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico The Portfolio Architect, Technology Resilience is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the architecture, standards, patterns, and technology roadmap supporting 's Technology Resilience capability. Reporting to the Technology Resilience team, this role provides architecture leadership for Disaster Recovery (DR), Minimum Viable Company (MVC), Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, Recovery Automation, Reliability Engineering, and Enterprise Dependency Architecture. The role serves as the architectural lead for resilience initiatives and is accountable for embedding resilience-by-design principles into technology services, platforms, and strategic investments. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Operations teams, the Portfolio Architect ensures resilience requirements are integrated into enterprise technology decisions while advancing the organization's maturity through automation, observability, dependency intelligence, and modern engineering practices. Increased adoption of resilience-by-design architecture standards across technology portfolios. Improved dependency visibility, service mapping coverage, and architectural alignment of critical business services. Increased automation of recovery processes and reduction of manual recovery effort. Reduced resilience-related technology risk and technical debt.



Solid alignment between Technology Resilience, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering organizations. Enable resilient, recoverable, and reliable technology services through architectural leadership, recovery automation, dependency intelligence, and resilience-by-design standards that protect and sustain 's critical business capabilities during disruption. Technology Resilience Architecture Own the Technology Resilience architecture domain, roadmap, standards, patterns, and reference architectures. Define target-state architectures supporting Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, and Technology Continuity. Establish resilience-by-design principles that can be applied consistently across technology portfolios and platforms. Provide architectural leadership, governance, and design assurance for resilience-related initiatives and investments. Recovery Engineering & Automation Define architecture patterns supporting Disaster Recovery as Code (DRaaC), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), orchestration, automated failover, and recovery validation. Partner with engineering teams to improve recovery automation, reduce manual intervention, and increase recovery repeatability and auditability. Incorporate Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles into resilience architecture standards and practices. Define architectural requirements for observability,



resiliency telemetry, monitoring, and automated recovery triggers. Support the adoption of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), resilience metrics, continuous validation, and resilience testing practices. Ensure lessons learned from incidents, exercises, and disruptions are incorporated into architecture standards and recovery patterns. Business Capability & Dependency Architecture Establish architecture models connecting business capabilities, critical business services, applications, infrastructure, data, integrations, and third-party services. Define enterprise dependency architecture standards and recovery sequencing models. Advance ServiceNow CMDB and service mapping capabilities as foundational components of dependency intelligence and recovery planning. Drive architecture simplification and reduction of resilience-related technical debt across the technology portfolio. Operate in close partnership with the Enterprise Security Architecture team to jointly advance cyber resilience, cyber recovery, and secure recovery capabilities. Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align resilience capabilities with enterprise technology strategies, standards, and target-state architectures. Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Operations teams to embed resilience requirements into technology platforms and services. Support technology governance, architecture reviews, investment planning, and resilience maturity improvement initiatives. Provide strategic architectural guidance regarding resilience risks, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities. 8+ years of progressive experience in architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cl

📌 Portfolio Architect, Technology Resilience (Canada)
🏢 Ian Martin Group
📍 Canada