Domain Enterprise Architect - Downstream Business (Retail)

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.

The Domain Enterprise Architect - Downstream is accountable for the architecture of Nutrien's Retail and grower-facing business domain. The role connects business strategy, customer and grower outcomes, value streams and capabilities to information, applications, and technology; maintains the domain target state and transition roadmap; and provides architecture direction before significant investment commitments. Working within a centralized EA CoE, this architect brings a One Nutrien perspective to the Downstream portfolio while recognizing legitimate regional, market and operating differences.

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 surface conflicting assumptions, duplicated activity and ownership gaps early

Collaborate with other Domain EAs to manage end-to-end value streams and cross-domain dependencies

Contribute domain analysis to merger, acquisition, divestiture and separation assessments using EA CoE playbooks and governance

Help mature EA CoE methods, reusable assets, service measures, communities of practice and architecture literacy across Nutrien

Domain-specific accountabilities

Maintain the architecture view for customer and grower engagement, account and channel management, commercial programs, pricing, product and service offers, agronomy services, retail branch enablement, digital commerce, customer service and the Downstream portions of order-to-cash and fulfillment

Identify opportunities to simplify customer, vendor and channel processes and reduce branch-level or regional workarounds while protecting capabilities that legitimately differentiate markets or customer experiences

Represent Retail seasonality, multi-site operations, grower experience, commercial agility and channel considerations in enterprise ERP, data, integration, security and technology roadmaps

Co-own architecture interfaces with the Midstream Domain EA for inventory visibility, availability, order promising, fulfillment, delivery and customer-service dependencies

Provide Downstream capability and transition implications for acquisitions, divestitures, branch integrations and separations

Measures of success

Priority business outcomes and investments are traceable to endorsed capabilities, target states and roadmap decisions

Architecture guidance is delivered early enough to influence demand shaping, funding, vendor selection and solution direction

Domain roadmaps are current, jointly understood and used in planning and portfolio decisions

Material cross-domain dependencies, architecture risks, exceptions and technical debt have named owners and transparent disposition

Reuse, consolidation, modernization and retirement opportunities are identified and progressed through accountable portfolio owners

Stakeholders report improved clarity, decision quality and confidence in the EA engagement model

EA repository content for the assigned domain is complete, current, connected and usable for decision-making

What You'll Bring

Undergraduate degree from a recognized university in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

Minimum 15 or more years of progressive experience across enterprise archi