Position Summary

McGill University is seeking a Director Enterprise Technology Architecture, reporting to the Director, IT Governance & Strategic Planning (GSP) to lead the enterprise technology architecture strategy and roadmap, leading enterprise-wide architecture integration, architecture principles, standards, business capabilities and governance processes while promoting innovation, business value realization, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities

Influence enterprise technology portfolio and investment planning by assessing strategic alignment, architectural fit, enterprise reuse opportunities, dependencies, technical debt implications, and long-term sustainability of proposed investments. Develop and evolve the organization's business and enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the institution vision, strategic priorities, and operational objectives. Translate institutional strategy into target-state architectures, strategic architecture priorities, and actionable transformation roadmaps. Develop integrated business and technology roadmaps that guide organizational transformation, investment planning, and modernization priorities. Advise senior leadership on technology investments, enterprise capabilities, architectural implications, and transformation opportunities. Shape architecture direction for strategic domains such as AI, data, application modernization, platforms, integration, and emerging technologies. Guide application and platform rationalization to reduce redundancy, complexity, technical debt, and operational costs. Establish and evolve enterprise business capability and value-chain models to support strategic planning, investment prioritization, and transformation.



Define enterprise reference architectures and target-state architecture that provide strategic direction for technology capabilities, platforms, and solution design. Communicate enterprise architecture direction, outcomes, and value to executive leadership and key stakeholders. Business and Technology Alignment

Act as a strategic partner between business and technology leadership, ensuring technology priorities and architecture decisions support institutional objectives. Engage business and technology leaders to understand strategic needs, emerging priorities, and transformation opportunities, and translate them into architecture requirements and priorities. Facilitate cross-functional alignment on business capabilities, technology direction, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align initiatives and investment priorities with enterprise roadmaps and target-state architecture. Provide architecture guidance to programs and delivery teams, ensuring business intent is effectively translated into scalable and sustainable technology solutions. Identify and resolve gaps or conflicts between business priorities, technology strategies, and enterprise architecture direction. Governance and Leadership

Establish and lead enterprise-wide architecture governance to drive consistent adoption of standards, patterns, decision frameworks, reference architectures,



to enable strategic technology direction across business and technology domains. Chair the Architecture Review Boards and other governance forums, ensuring effective architectural decision-making and cross-functional alignment. Ensure strategic initiatives, programs, and solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, target-state architectures, and approved technology direction. Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, market developments, and architectural best practices to inform enterprise architecture direction and decision-making. Build strong relationships with executives, business leaders, delivery teams, and technology stakeholders to strengthen architecture influence and organizational alignment. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, architectural discipline, and continuous improvement. Lead, mentor, and develop architecture practitioners while strengthening enterprise architecture capabilities, practices, and competencies across the organization. Qualifications

Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) or relevant post‑graduate studies in business is considered an asset. Knowledge of the standard market architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, BIZBOK or equivalent) are considered robust assets. Experience Minimum 15 years of experience in technology, business architecture, enterprise architecture, strategy, business transformation, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role with team‑management responsibilities; Extensive experience developing and implementing enterprise architecture frameworks, business capability models, operating models, and strategic tec

📌 Director, Enterprise Technology Architecture (Sherbrooke)
🏢 McGill University
📍 Sherbrooke