Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 05/25/2026

About this opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled Portfolio Architect Specialist to understand, design, and oversee the implementation of enterprise scale architectures across our IT, OT, and cloud environments. The role requires expertise in modern architecture frameworks, emerging technologies, integration patterns, and enterprise level risk and solution management.

This role will be accountable for overall solution architecture requirements and ensuring our standards and best practices are incorporated into the designs. You will partner with enterprise architects, business leads, and project teams to deliver solution diagrams and documentation, integration specifications, and transition-to-operations processes as required.

The successful candidate will contribute as a technology leader, creatively aligning business and technology objectives while helping advance the organization’s overall maturity and resilience across its digital ecosystem.

This opportunity will appeal to an individual who thrives in a team environment, demonstrates critical thinking, problem-solving, and facilitation skills, and is adaptable while effectively completing deliverables in a timely manner.

What you’ll do:

• Define and govern portfolio architecture to deliver measurable business value, reduce time to market, and align with IT and enterprise strategies.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce architecture standards to ensure secure, reliable, compliant, and sustainable solutions across the portfolio.
• Develop and maintain portfolio architectural designs, roadmaps, and capability maps to guide solution decisions and prioritize initiatives.
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to align portfolio initiatives with strategic roadmaps, long-range plans, and technology standards.
• Review and approve solutions to ensure cohesion, standards compliance, and support for defined business capabilities and outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to portfolio initiatives, projects, and service teams.
• Monitor emerging technologies, delivery models, and data/AI governance practices to inform portfolio evolution and ensure enterprise alignment.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ years of IT experience, including 7+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, AWS/Azure Architect)
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, reference architectures, security posture (CSPM), and cost optimization
• Expertise in integration patterns, APIs, microservices, containerization, and data flows
• Proficiency in DevOps and infrastructure-as-code for automated deployments
• Strong understanding of data architecture, security/privacy, and ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Solid awareness of AI capabilities and technologies to enable in a complex environment

We acknowledge the value of transferable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT May 24th, 2026.

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings
• Education assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

• Our values:

  • Protect what matters
  • Do it right
  • Make it better
  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares , connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
  • Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com .

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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