Enterprise Architecture Practice and Governance Lead - Mars Veterinary Health

JOB TITLE: Enterprise Architecture Practice and Governance Lead - Mars Veterinary Health

LOCATION & SCHEDULE: Support Office - Vancouver, Full time

COMPENSATION: $152,880.00 - $238,875.00

As part of the Mars Petcare family of businesses, Mars Veterinary Health is a global network of veterinary practices made possible by 75,000 Associates who care for millions of pets across nearly 3,000 clinics in more than 20 countries each year. We are committed to leveraging our reach to make a long-term positive impact on people, pets, and the planet and know our Purpose – A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS – starts with the people who care for them. We strive to offer unparalleled veterinary care for pets by first and foremost enabling and empowering our Associates to do what they love, whether in primary, specialty, and emergency care or management and leadership.

This role requires associates to work out of a MVH North America hub location – New York, NY | Vancouver, WA | Santa Monica, CA | Tampa, FL

Why This Role Matters:

The Enterprise Architecture Practice & Governance Lead is responsible for defining, operating, and continuously improving the Enterprise Architecture operating model for Mars Veterinary Health. This role ensures that architecture governance, technology standards, application portfolio management, and digital transformation practices enable delivery teams to move faster while maintaining alignment to enterprise strategy. The Lead serves as the steward of architecture governance, technology standards, portfolio transparency, and the Architecture Community of Practice, helping drive technology harmonization, rationalization, and measurable business outcomes across MVH.

You Will:

• Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
• Architecture Practice & Governance Own the global architecture governance framework, including Architecture Review Boards (ARB), decision processes, design authorities, and architecture assurance activities.
• Define and evolve the EA engagement model, intake processes, service catalog, and operating procedures.
• Lead the Architecture Community of Practice across enterprise, solution, platform, data, and security architecture disciplines.
• Develop architecture methodologies, playbooks, and reusable assets.
• Promote architecture best practices and capability development across the broader technology organization.
• Establish and maintain architecture decision management processes and governance reporting.
• Technology Standards & Reference Architecture Own the lifecycle of enterprise technology standards, approved technologies, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
• Facilitate evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Partner with domain architects to ensure standards remain practical, current, and aligned to business needs.
• Lead technology exception and waiver processes.
• Application & Technology Rationalization Serve as business owner for LeanIX and enterprise architecture repositories.
• Establish and maintain application portfolio management practices including lifecycle management, technical debt visibility, risk management, and rationalization.
• Drive portfolio transparency and support investment decisions using portfolio insights.
• Transformation & Strategic Enablement Partner with business and technology leaders to align transformation initiatives with enterprise architecture strategy.
• Support transformation planning through portfolio insights, technology roadmaps, and capability analysis.
• Enable harmonization of technologies, platforms, and applications across the MVH landscape.
• Provide architecture reporting and insights that support our digital strategy execution and strategic investment decisions.
• Architecture Metrics & Value Realization Define governance metrics and continuously improve governance effectiveness.
• Establish KPIs that demonstrate architecture effectiveness and business value.
• Measure governance throughput, standards adoption, portfolio health, rationalization outcomes, and technical debt reduction.
• Produce executive reporting demonstrating architecture contribution to business outcomes, technology simplification, and risk reduction.

Your Experience Should Include:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Relevant architecture certifications (TOGAF, Zachman, PEAF, or equivalent architecture frameworks preferred.)
• Ten+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technology Strategy, IT Governance, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing architecture governance, technology standards, application portfolio management practices, or architecture operating models within a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience with enterprise architecture repositories, portfolio management tools, and technology governance processes.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience implementing, administering, or enabling enterprise architecture, portfolio management, or governance platforms such as LeanIX, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, or similar enterprise tooling.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives through influence and collaboration across business and technology stakeholders

Salary range: $162,162-$259,411 Compensation is determined based on education, experience, and other relevant credentials. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and market competitiveness.

What We Offer You:

• Competitive salary with paid time off & holidays so you can spend time with the people you love.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your loved ones.
• Fertility and family-building assistance.
• Paid Parental leave.
• Practice Paid Basic Life Insurance.
• Practice Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability.
• Automatic enrollment 401(k) Savings Plan after 60 days of employment with generous company match.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Legal Plan.
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account.
• Mental health support and resources.
• Paid Volunteering.
• Optimum Wellness Plans for up to three pets.
• Continuing Education allowance & MED hours for eligible positions.
• Student Debt Relief (for full-time DVMs).
• A Variety of discounts including Mars, PetSmart, Royal Canin, fitness, cellular and so much more.

Special Working Considerations:

• Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
• Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.
• The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.
• Environment where pets are present.

WE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Mars Veterinary Health (MVH) strongly supports and values the uniqueness of all individuals and promotes a work environment where diversity is embraced. MVH is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

MVH complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every MVH location.

About Us Banfield is a community of caring people marked by a diversity of thought, background and approach. Together, we’re bonded by a commitment to our purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. Our pledge is to create an inclusive environment where associates can be themselves, so that we can find value in our differences. And we know that’s best achieved by upholding the health and well-being of our associates.