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Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Job Requisition ID: 88170
Ministry: Primary and Preventative Health Services
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Permanent
Scope: Open
Closing Date: November 9, 2026
Classification: Systems Analyst 3
Salary: $3,847.03 - $5,095.52 bi-weekly ($100,407 - $132,993/year)

The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding and diverse career opportunities.

The Department of Primary and Preventative Health Services establishes the Government of Alberta’s strategic direction for health, including advising government on health policy, legislation and standards, and public health concerns; monitoring and reporting health system performance; setting policies and priorities for the electronic/digital health environment; and providing oversight and ensuring accountability across the health system.

Role Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership across government and health system initiatives. This role ensures alignment of Information Management/Information Technology solutions with enterprise standards, maximizes return on Information Technology investments, and reduces organizational risk by guiding projects, partners, and stakeholders toward cohesive, reusable, and future-ready architectures.

The Enterprise Architect provides strategic and hands-on technical leadership to support department, government, and health system wide initiatives.



This role ensures that information technology solutions are architecturally sound, aligned with business objectives, sustainable, and consistent with Government of Alberta standards and industry best practices.

In this role, you will work closely with business areas, Information Technology operations, Information Technology management, partner organizations, and vendors to guide initiatives from early concept through delivery, ensuring optimal use of Information Technology investments and reducing technical and delivery risk.

Key responsibilities include:

- Ensure architectural alignment across projects, government, partners, and jurisdictions.
- Resolve architecture issues, identify dependencies, and monitor IM/IT solutions under development.
- Contribute to IM/IT planning and architecture teams, and ensure key decisions are documented.

Architecture Strategy & Roadmaps

- Maintain current, transition, and future-state roadmaps and define approaches to close gaps.
- Propose refinements to government and health system architectures and maintain asset inventories.

Asset Management & Reuse

- Ensure projects reuse, extend, and contribute IM/IT assets, and identify opportunities to reuse or acquire assets.
- Promote designs that improve integration, report on asset use, and improve asset management processes.





Design Authority & Governance

- Act as a Design Authority (DA) Design Lead, reviewing designs and recommending decisions.
- Lead DA working groups to assess options and develop architecture principles, patterns, and standards.
- Define architecture deliverables across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and advise on methods and best practices.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise standards, identify misalignments, and communicate architectural risks.

Emerging Technology Advisory

- Advise IM/IT leadership on emerging technologies and conduct research and proof-of-concepts.
- Maintain expertise and share findings through reports, workshops, and executive briefings.

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Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

- Systems Thinking: Integrate broader trends, risks, and the political or organizational environment into planning and decision-making. Align strategies and actions with the organization’s vision and long-term goals. Anticipate and address behaviors or dynamics that may hinder progress. Support informed, strategic choices by considering interdependencies across teams and initiatives.
- Creative Problem Solving: Create conditions where innovation can thrive. Encourage fresh perspectives and ensure the right

📌 Enterprise Architect (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton