Introduction: Where We Stand The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Strategy and accompanying Roadmap detail the multi-year plan to evolve EA within Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). This evolution will ensure that the EA program has the capabilities, capacities, and competencies needed to help ESDC towards its goal of becoming an integral part of a digital government. "We need to be cautious about our tactical approach: Success can kill innovation. We need to re-assess our level of maturity, and try to fill in any gaps that we might have forgotten about.” - Jean B. Lapierre (Enterprise Architect, Solution Architecture Services) The EA Strategy and Roadmap represent a collaborative effort among all the architecture domains, and consultation with key stakeholders, to mature, given the Government of Canada’s Directive on Service and Digital and ESDC’s Transformation Agenda. The evolution of EA and corresponding paradigm shift to Lean and Agile methodologies will happen across three horizons over the next seven years. The development and execution of the EA Strategy and Roadmap began at the end of the 2019-2020 fiscal year and continues to date, not withstanding the challenges of COVID-19. In fact, in the spring of 2020, coordinators of the Strategy and Roadmap adjusted them in response to the pandemic. This resulted in a new focus of the first phase of the Roadmap, being those activities central to either enhancing and expanding EA capacities, or innovating and driving EA’s Lean and Agile paradigm shift.