Domain Enterprise Architect - Downstream Business (Retail)
Nutrien
Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services, and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values: We put safety first. We act with integrity. We are stronger together. We deliver with excellence. Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers' needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.
What You'll Do Business outcomes and capability architecture
Develop and maintain business capability maps, taxonomies, and value streams in partnership with business leaders
Translate business strategies, operating priorities and measurable outcomes into capability implications and architecture requirements
Assess capability maturity, strategic importance, differentiation, pain points, duplication, and investment needs using common EA CoE methods
Connect business outcomes and value streams to information, applications, integrations, technology platforms, and organizational dependencies
Create concise, decision-ready views that make cost, risk, complexity, opportunity, and trade-offs understandable to business and IT leaders
Domain architecture and strategic roadmaps
Own and maintain the domain current-state, target-state, and transition architectures at an appropriate level of detail for strategic decision-making
Develop an actionable, multi-year domain architecture roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy, the ERP Five-Year Plan and approved investment priorities
Define transition states, sequencing assumptions, dependencies, architecture risks, and decision points required to move from current to target state
Provide domain capability requirements and business context to Application, Data, Integration, Technology, Security and ERP architects; collaborate on integrated enterprise roadmaps
Maintain architecture products, decisions, dependencies, and roadmaps in the approved EA repository and refresh them when business strategy, investment priorities or the technology landscape materially changes
Some of the above responsibilities involve working within the EA team and collaborating with other CoEs
Domain specific knowledge and industry experience is required to streamline the collaboration with BRM and business stakeholders as needed
Working closely with the BRMs and business stakeholders to support their strategic technology needs
Investment shaping and portfolio transparency
Provide architecture point of view (PoV) for material investments before solution or vendor commitments are made, covering target-state fit, reuse, duplication, options, dependencies, lifecycle risk, technical debt, and total-cost drivers
Partner with BRM during demand shaping: BRM owns demand, sponsorship, value case, and outcome continuity; the Domain EA owns architectural fit, options and enterprise coherence
Support/Partner with Portfolio and Finance to make capability gaps, architecture dependencies, lifecycle exposure and investment trade-offs visible; Portfolio and Finance retain prioritization, funding and financial-validation authority
Identify opportunities to reuse, consolidate, modernize or retire capabilities and applications, and route recommendations to the accountable business, product, platform and portfolio owners
Maintain a domain view of architecture-related technical debt and exceptions, including business impact, accountable owner, remediation path and review date
Architecture governance and assurance
Apply enterprise principles, standards, reference architectures and approved patterns through early, risk-based engagement
Determine whether proposed changes conform to the approved domain target state within delegated authority; recommend material exceptions and unresolved cross-domain decisions to the EA Design Authority or Architecture Review Board
Document architecture decisions, conditions, risks, exceptions and expiry or review dates in the approved system of record
Provide architecture assurance at agreed lifecycle points and verify that material decisions and conditions are reflected in solution designs and delivery evidence
Use pre-approved patterns, proportionate review and governance by exception to improve decision speed without weakening enterprise accountability
Collaboration, influence and EA practice development
Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to senior business and IT leaders, framing options and recommendations in terms of outcomes, cost, risk, resilience, speed and value
Facilitate cross-functional decisions and
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What You'll Do Business outcomes and capability architecture
Develop and maintain business capability maps, taxonomies, and value streams in partnership with business leaders
Translate business strategies, operating priorities and measurable outcomes into capability implications and architecture requirements
Assess capability maturity, strategic importance, differentiation, pain points, duplication, and investment needs using common EA CoE methods
Connect business outcomes and value streams to information, applications, integrations, technology platforms, and organizational dependencies
Create concise, decision-ready views that make cost, risk, complexity, opportunity, and trade-offs understandable to business and IT leaders
Domain architecture and strategic roadmaps
Own and maintain the domain current-state, target-state, and transition architectures at an appropriate level of detail for strategic decision-making
Develop an actionable, multi-year domain architecture roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy, the ERP Five-Year Plan and approved investment priorities
Define transition states, sequencing assumptions, dependencies, architecture risks, and decision points required to move from current to target state
Provide domain capability requirements and business context to Application, Data, Integration, Technology, Security and ERP architects; collaborate on integrated enterprise roadmaps
Maintain architecture products, decisions, dependencies, and roadmaps in the approved EA repository and refresh them when business strategy, investment priorities or the technology landscape materially changes
Some of the above responsibilities involve working within the EA team and collaborating with other CoEs
Domain specific knowledge and industry experience is required to streamline the collaboration with BRM and business stakeholders as needed
Working closely with the BRMs and business stakeholders to support their strategic technology needs
Investment shaping and portfolio transparency
Provide architecture point of view (PoV) for material investments before solution or vendor commitments are made, covering target-state fit, reuse, duplication, options, dependencies, lifecycle risk, technical debt, and total-cost drivers
Partner with BRM during demand shaping: BRM owns demand, sponsorship, value case, and outcome continuity; the Domain EA owns architectural fit, options and enterprise coherence
Support/Partner with Portfolio and Finance to make capability gaps, architecture dependencies, lifecycle exposure and investment trade-offs visible; Portfolio and Finance retain prioritization, funding and financial-validation authority
Identify opportunities to reuse, consolidate, modernize or retire capabilities and applications, and route recommendations to the accountable business, product, platform and portfolio owners
Maintain a domain view of architecture-related technical debt and exceptions, including business impact, accountable owner, remediation path and review date
Architecture governance and assurance
Apply enterprise principles, standards, reference architectures and approved patterns through early, risk-based engagement
Determine whether proposed changes conform to the approved domain target state within delegated authority; recommend material exceptions and unresolved cross-domain decisions to the EA Design Authority or Architecture Review Board
Document architecture decisions, conditions, risks, exceptions and expiry or review dates in the approved system of record
Provide architecture assurance at agreed lifecycle points and verify that material decisions and conditions are reflected in solution designs and delivery evidence
Use pre-approved patterns, proportionate review and governance by exception to improve decision speed without weakening enterprise accountability
Collaboration, influence and EA practice development
Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to senior business and IT leaders, framing options and recommendations in terms of outcomes, cost, risk, resilience, speed and value
Facilitate cross-functional decisions and
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Reference: WJ-3875_13084964