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: Enterprise Architecture Leadership 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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📌 Enterprise Architect (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton