OVERVIEW

Reporting to Director, Data Architecture and Engineering, the Enterprise Architect
plays a strategic role in aligning business and IT strategies, ensuring technology investments support the companys long-term goals while balancing current operational needs. This role provides guidance on technology roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices, facilitating informed decision-making for both IT and business leaders. This role requires a visionary leader who can bridge the gap between business strategy and IT execution, ensuring the organization remains agile and competitive in an evolving technological landscape.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategic Leadership & Governance:
  
  • Define, develop, and oversee the enterprise architecture framework, aligning it with business objectives.
  • Lead enterprise architecture initiatives, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  • Direct and manage various projects across the technology and business teams with respect to architecture and guidance on best practices.
  • Establish and enforce architecture governance processes and frameworks.
  • Ensure vendors adhere to governance and frameworks.
    
• Architecture Development & Implementation:
  
  • Design and implement enterprise-wide technology solutions to enhance business operations, leads technology projects and act as a liaison with the business and technical teams.
  • Evaluate and recommend technology investments that drive innovation and operational efficiency.
  • Lead the EA review board (EARB) to ensure adherence to the target-state architecture model.
  • Manage exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level. Ensure documentation is maintained when decisions or exceptions are made.
  • Ensure architecture diagrams and decisions are well maintained for the organization.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:
  
  • Work closely with business leaders to understand and translate business requirements into technology strategies.
  • Provide strategic consultation to senior executives on IT investments, risks, and opportunities.
  • Collaborate with IT leadership and project management teams to align technology strategies with enterprise goals.
  • Develop and communicate technology policies, IT and AI strategies, standards, and best practices across the organization.
    
• Technology Trends & Innovation:
  
  • Research and evaluate emerging technologies to ensure the organization remains competitive.
  • Recommend technology adoption strategies based on business relevance and deployment feasibility.
  • Define and advocate technology strategies to drive digital transformation, data strategies, AI strategies all while maintaining operational excellence.

• Resource & Budget Management:
  
  • Work with senior leadership to allocate budgets for architectural initiatives critical to business success.
  • Define the skills and competencies required for the architecture team, ensuring proper training and development.
  • Lead teams in technology planning and execution.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree is a plus.

Experience

• • 15+ years of IT and business/industry experience, including architecture design, system lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning.
  • Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and influencing senior leadership.
  • Exposure to diverse technologies, processing environments, and business re-engineering principles.
  • Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting and financial modeling.
  • Certified AWS Solutions Architect
  • CISSP or CCSP
  • Familiarity withSAP CDS Views, OData services, and ABAP for extensibility
  • S/4 Hana Understanding ofSAP Integration Suite, APIs, and event-driven architectures for seamless system connectivity.
  • ETL Expertise inreal-time and batch processing architectures for efficient data movement and transformation.
  • Strong knowledge of data quality, governance, lineage, and master data management (MDM) principles.
  • Ability to design and implement data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
  • Data Lake and Integration knowledge a must.
  • Hands-on experience withcloud-native data warehousing solutions (AWS Redshift)
  • Ability to createhigh-performance data pipelines that enable real-time analytics and AI-driven insights.

Knowledge/Competencies/Skills

• • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to present complex concepts in a clear and user-friendly manner.
  • Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities to develop high-performing teams.
  • Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, ADM, Zachman, or similar.
  • Expertise with cloud computing AWS and Azure, cybersecurity, data models, AI/ML, and other emerging technologies.
  • This role requires a visionary leader who can bridge the gap between business strategy and IT execution, ensuring the organization remains agile and competitive in an evolving technological landscape.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• • All CM employees work 40 hours per week, remotely from a home office environment.
  • Extra or flexible hours may be required on occasion.

ABOUT CIRCULAR MATERIALS

Circular Materials is a national not-for-profit producer responsibility organization (PRO) that supports producers in meeting their extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations across Canada. Created by producers for producers, Circular Materials develops, implements, and supports effective and efficient recycling programs to advance innovation, deliver improved environmental outcomes and drive value across the recycling supply chain. Our full-service offerings include collection, management, promotion and education, and reporting.

Together, we are advancing the circular economy where materials are collected, recycled, and can be returned to producers for use as recycled content in new products and packaging. As we develop enhanced recycling systems across Canada, we work to ensure more materials are looped into the circular economy, benefiting both people and the environment.

Learn more atcircularmaterials.ca.

Circular Materials is an equal opportunity employer, seeking team members with a diversity of thought, skills, experiences, culture, and ethnicityto help us achieve our purpose of accelerating a circular economy for people and the planet. As a national organization operating across Canada, our goal is to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the many provinces and territories where we do business.

Our inclusive hiring practices aim to foster a culture where all employees feel a strong sense of belonging. We are proud of our recent diversity survey results which showed that:

• 51% of Circular Materials employees identify as women.
• 53% of Circular Materials employees identify as visible minorities.
• 97% of employees believe Circular Materials fosters a strong sense of belonging for employees of all backgrounds.
• 95% of employees recommend Circular Materials as an inclusive workplace.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, Indigenous People (First Nations, Mtis, and Inuit) persons with disabilities, racialized individuals, and members of the LGTBQIAS+ community.

Circular Materials supports reasonable requests for accommodation in accordance with all applicable provincial accessibility standards. Requests for accommodation will be provided by Circular Materials through the recruitment and/or assessment processes, upon [email protected]. This email is only used for accommodation requests.