Enterprise Architect

Posted 9 days ago

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Job Description

Enterprise Architect

Engagement period: Jan 2026 - June 30, 2026 (possibility of extension)
Location: Edmonton, Alberta (hybrid 2 days a week onsite)
Hours: 7.25 hours/day (36.25 hours/week)

Role Description Summary:

Our client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support the execution of their Digital & IT Strategy, divisional plans, and organization-wide Business Plan. This role provides strategic architecture leadership across a diverse environment that includes funding programs, applied research, and revenue-generating services. The architect will map business capabilities, analyze system overlap, define future-state architectures, and guide how our technology ecosystem (including Microsoft Azure, M365, SaaS platforms, data environments, and AI tools) should evolve to support a modern, scalable, and integrated enterprise. Although the role will not be fully hands-on, candidates with implementation or configuration experience within their technical operating environment will be preferred.

Scope of Work / Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture & Capability Mapping
o Develop current-state and future-state enterprise architecture (Conceptual, Logical and Physical) aligned to AI's strategic, business, and divisional plans.
o Map business capabilities across funding, applied research, and revenue-generating functions to supporting systems.
o Identify system redundancies, integration gaps, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.

• Systems & Platform Analysis
o Review the application and system landscape across corporate services, research operations, client-facing processes, and operational technology.
o Recommend rationalization, consolidation, or modernization approaches.

• Strategic Technology Alignment
o Ensure recommendations align with the Digital & IT Strategy, Data Program, AI Strategy, cloud strategy, and cybersecurity principles.
o Provide direction on how cloud, SaaS, network, and data-center components should integrate and support enterprise capabilities.

• Solution & Roadmap Guidance
o Support development of multi-year architecture roadmaps.
o Provide guidance-not hands-on design-on solution patterns, integrations, and platform alignment (CRM, HRIS, Finance, Contract Management, Data Management and Governance).

• Stakeholder Engagement
o Engage executives, business units, IT teams, and subsidiaries to validate processes, requirements, and architectural decisions.
o Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment discussions.

• Documentation & Recommendations
o Produce architecture documentation, capability maps, diagrams, and recommended future-state options.
o Provide inputs into investment planning, sequencing, and prioritization.

Recommended Experience Level:

5-8 years of experience in enterprise architecture

About Great Canadian Gaming Corp.

Great Canadian is a leading gaming, entertainment and hospitality company in Canada. With 28 gaming properties across Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Washington State, Great Canadian's facilities include interactive gaming, thrilling horse racing, a variety of dining amenities, show theatres and hotels. Working closely alongside crown and industry partners, Great Canadian is driven to provide outstanding service to guests, rewarding opportunities for team members and superior value to shareholders. Fundamental to the company’s culture is its commitment to social responsibility. “PROUD of our people, our business, our community” is Great Canadian’s brand that unifies the company’s community, volunteering and social responsibility efforts. Under the PROUD program, Great Canadian annually invests over $2.5 million in our communities, and in 2017, over 1,900 charitable organizations were supported by Great Canadian. In each Canadian gaming jurisdiction, a significant portion of gross gaming revenue from gaming facilities is retained by our crown partners on behalf of their provincial government for the purpose of supporting programs like healthcare, education and social services.