We are seeking a visionary and highly accomplished Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist to lead the development, evaluation, and management of organization-wide Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategies. In this high-profile position, you will define modernization roadmaps, streamline application landscapes, and draft corporate technical policies that unify diverse technologies into standardized, shared frameworks. Rather than focusing on singular application designs, this strategic, macro-level role shapes the overarching technology stack, architectural standards, and composable platform governance for the entire enterprise.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid / Onsite Options Available)
Duration: 6-month contract
Advantages
Definitive Corporate Influence: Direct the overarching technological footprint and policy infrastructure for a massive, multi-tiered enterprise.
Strategic High-Visibility Leadership: Serve as a trusted executive-level advisor, directly shaping 5-year modernization roadmaps and technology selections.
Advanced Composable Scope: Drive next-generation design philosophies by establishing modular, flexible architectural patterns that influence all downstream software execution.
Elite Technical Network: Partner with steering committees, infrastructure directors, cloud engineers, and external vendor partners to achieve delivery excellence.
Responsibilities
Corporate EA Strategy & Governance: Develop, recommend, and implement the overarching IT Enterprise Architecture strategy. Establish enterprise-wide standards, patterns, and guideline templates to support unified, standardized practices across the organization.
Modernization Roadmapping: Formulate and manage multi-year architecture roadmaps that advance corporate alignment, eliminate structural redundancies, and reduce operational costs.
Composable Architecture Optimization: Identify core enterprise platforms, products, and tech stacks using modular, composable architecture principles to maximize reuse and interoperability.
Technology Assessment & Fit-Gap Analysis: Conduct deep technology assessments and fit-gap analyses to evaluate emerging solutions, offering optimal roadmap recommendations to senior leadership.
Strategic Business Alignment: Map complex business capabilities and data interdependencies, providing direction on operationalizing business visions into technical systems, frameworks, and processes.
Delivery Team Consultation: Provide high-level governance and architectural support to distributed delivery teams, ensuring active initiatives conform to Target State Architecture (TSA) baselines.
Risk & Mitigation Architecture: Proactively identify systemic technology risks, architectural limitations, and compliance vulnerabilities, building strong governance frameworks to mitigate long-term impacts.
Executive Stakeholder Consultation: Collaborate and negotiate with diverse stakeholder groups, technical directors, and executive sponsors. Author impactful briefing notes, technical positions, and standard operating policies.
Qualifications
Core Seniority: Minimum of 15+ years of dedicated professional experience operating as an Enterprise Architect across a diverse variety of platforms and technical ecosystems.
Macro-Level EA Focus: Proven track record in a pure Enterprise Architecture and Strategy role (distinguished from an application or solution-specific design position).
Framework & Platform Mastery: Thorough, comprehensive structural knowledge of industry-standard EA Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), platform strategies, and cross-domain architectures.
Policy & Standards Formulation: Demonstrated capability creating, reviewing, and implementing technology policies, blueprints, and patterns from an organization-wide viewpoint.
Technical Breadth: Deep conceptual knowledge spanning Application Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Technology Clusters, and emerging fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Analytical Transformation Thinking: Superior problem-solving, strategic thinking, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to streamline complex landscapes and decommission legacy technical debt.
Nice to Have: Strong understanding of public sector/government-wide modernization strategies, checkpoint gating processes, and structured Project Management methodologies.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a visionary and highly accomplished Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist to lead the development, evaluation, and management of organization-wide Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategies. In this high-profile position, you will define modernization roadmaps, streamline application landscapes, and draft corporate technical policies that unify diverse technologies into standardized, shared frameworks. Rather than focusing on singular application designs, this strategic, macro-level role shapes the overarching technology stack, architectural standards, and composable platform governance for the entire enterprise.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid / Onsite Options Available)
Duration: 6-month contract
Advantages
Definitive Corporate Influence: Direct the overarching technological footprint and policy infrastructure for a massive, multi-tiered enterprise.
Strategic High-Visibility Leadership: Serve as a trusted executive-level advisor, directly shaping 5-year modernization roadmaps and technology selections.
Advanced Composable Scope: Drive next-generation design philosophies by establishing modular, flexible architectural patterns that influence all downstream software execution.
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Elite Technical Network: Partner with steering committees, infrastructure directors, cloud engineers, and external vendor partners to achieve delivery excellence.
Responsibilities
Corporate EA Strategy & Governance: Develop, recommend, and implement the overarching IT Enterprise Architecture strategy. Establish enterprise-wide standards, patterns, and guideline templates to support unified, standardized practices across the organization.
Modernization Roadmapping: Formulate and manage multi-year architecture roadmaps that advance corporate alignment, eliminate structural redundancies, and reduce operational costs.
Composable Architecture Optimization: Identify core enterprise platforms, products, and tech stacks using modular, composable architecture principles to maximize reuse and interoperability.
Technology Assessment & Fit-Gap Analysis: Conduct deep technology assessments and fit-gap analyses to evaluate emerging solutions, offering optimal roadmap recommendations to senior leadership.
Strategic Business Alignment: Map complex business capabilities and data interdependencies, providing direction on operationalizing business visions into technical systems, frameworks, and processes.
Delivery Team Consultation: Provide high-level governance and architectural support to distributed delivery teams, ensuring active initiatives conform to Target State Architecture (TSA) baselines.
Risk & Mitigation Architecture: Proactively identify systemic technology risks, architectural limitations, and compliance vulnerabilities, building strong governance frameworks to mitigate long-term impacts.
Executive Stakeholder Consultation: Collaborate and negotiate with diverse stakeholder groups, technical directors, and executive sponsors. Author impactful briefing notes, technical positions, and standard operating policies.
Qualifications
Core Seniority: Minimum of 15+ years of dedicated professional experience operating as an Enterprise Architect across a diverse variety of platforms and technical ecosystems.
Macro-Level EA Focus: Proven track record in a pure Enterprise Architecture and Strategy role (distinguished from an application or solution-specific design position).
Framework & Platform Mastery: Thorough, comprehensive structural knowledge of industry-standard EA Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), platform strategies, and cross-domain architectures.
Policy & Standards Formulation: Demonstrated capability creating, reviewing, and implementing technology policies, blueprints, and patterns from an organization-wide viewpoint.
Technical Breadth: Deep conceptual knowledge spanning Application Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Technology Clusters, and emerging fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Analytical Transformation Thinking: Superior problem-solving, strategic thinking, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to streamline complex landscapes and decommission legacy technical debt.
Nice to Have: Strong understanding of public sector/government-wide modernization strategies, checkpoint gating processes, and structured Project Management methodologies.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior IT Enterprise Architect/Strategist role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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