Solutions Architect
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead solution architecture for initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms.
- Create and maintain high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, non-functional requirements, deployment views, and architecture decision records.
- Define target-state architectures and transition roadmaps aligned with enterprise standards.
- Design cloud-first solutions using Azure and/or Google Cloud architecture practices.
- Architect API-led, event-driven, streaming, and batch integrations.
- Enable AI/ML lifecycle architecture, GenAI use cases, advanced decisioning, and responsible AI guardrails.
- Promote domain-aligned data models, master and reference data, lineage, and privacy practices.
- Lead architecture reviews and promote reusable reference architectures and patterns.
- Partner with security and SRE teams to deliver secure-by-design and operationally ready solutions.
- Mentor engineers and analysts and contribute to architecture and engineering communities of practice.
- Advise product, engineering, and business leaders on solution options, trade-offs, risks, and architectural decisions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in technology.
- 3+ years of experience in solution or technical architecture roles.
- Experience delivering solutions across retail platforms such as supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital.
- Strong experience with API-led and event-driven integration architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Azure and/or Google Cloud, including networking, identity, and deployment models.
- Strong understanding of security, resiliency, performance, and observability.
- Preferred experience with OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, pricing engines, or promotion engines.
- Preferred data platform and analytics architecture experience, including lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns.
- Preferred AI/ML or GenAI architecture experience, including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI.
- Preferred store edge computing or offline-first architecture experience.
- Experience with C4, UML, sequence and data flows, and domain models.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs.
- Performance incentives and continuing education programs.
- Well-being perks, career growth opportunities, and product discounts.
- Canadian Tire store discounts, Triangle Learning Academy learning support, profit sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees.
- Enhanced flex benefits include up to $5,000 per year in mental health benefits for eligible employees and families.
- The typical hiring range is $80,000.00 to $131,000.00 per annum.
- The employer provides accommodations throughout the application and interview process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Canadian Tire Corporation is a Canadian retail and financial services group best known for Canadian Tire stores selling automotive, hardware, home, and seasonal goods. It also operates SportChek, Mark’s, PartSource, Party City, and Gas+, owns Helly Hansen, and runs a credit card/loyalty business and CT REIT. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Toronto, it is publicly traded on the TSX and operates a coast-to-coast dealer and franchise network.