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You will translate business outcomes into secure, scalable, and resilient architectures, partnering closely with product, engineering, data, security, and operations teams.\nArchitecture & Solution Design\n Lead solution architecture for initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms.\nProduce and maintain architecture deliverables: high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, NFRs, deployment views, and architecture decision records (ADRs).\nDefine target-state architectures and transition roadmaps aligned to enterprise standards.\nEnsure solutions meet non-functional requirements: availability, performance, resiliency, scalability, security, and operability\nRetail Domain Enablement (Cross-domain)\nArchitect solutions across domains including:\nSupply Chain & Logistics: demand planning, replenishment, inventory visibility, WMS/TMS integration, ASN, yard management, DC automation, last-mile.\nStore Technology: POS, store inventory, handhelds, RFID, edge solutions, offline/nearline patterns, store networking.\nMerchandising: PIM, pricing & promotions, assortment planning, vendor onboarding, space/category analytics.\n Digital & Omnichannel: eCommerce, order management, fulfillment orchestration (BOPIS/ship-from-store), returns, customer identity.\nCloud, Data, Integration & AI\nDesign cloud-first solutions using Azure and/or Google Cloud architecture best practices.\nArchitect enterprise integration using APIs, event-driven patterns, streaming, and batch.\nPartner with data and AI teams to enable:AI/ML lifecycle architecture (training pipelines, deployment patterns, inference)\nGenAI-enabled use cases with responsible AI guardrails\nAdvanced decisioning for forecasting, pricing, inventory, personalization, and fraud.\n\nPromote strong data architecture practices: domain-aligned models, master/reference data, lineage, and privacy.\nGovernance, Standards & Delivery Enablement\nParticipate in and lead architecture reviews; provide guardrails without slowing delivery.\nDefine and promote reusable reference architectures and patterns.\nEnsure secure-by-design and operationally ready solutions in partnership with security and SRE teams.\nMentor engineers and analysts; contribute to architecture and engineering communities of practice.\nStakeholder Partnership & Influence\nWork with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to shape solution options and trade-offs.\nClearly communicate architectural intent, risks, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nAct as a trusted advisor during delivery and planning.\nWhat you bring\nRequired experience\n7+ years in technology with 3+ years in solution or technical architecture roles.\nExperience delivering solutions across retail platforms (supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital).\nStrong experience with API-led and event-driven integration architectures.\nHands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP) including networking, identity, and deployment models.\nStrong understanding of security, resiliency, performance, and observability.\nStrongly preferred\nExperience with retail enterprise platforms such as OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, pricing or promotion engines.\nData platform and analytics architecture experience (lakehouse/warehouse patterns, streaming).\nAI/ML or GenAI architecture exposure, including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI considerations.\nStore edge computing or offline-first architecture experience.\nCore skills\nArchitecture modeling (C4, UML, sequence/data flows, domain models).\nStrong analytical thinking and decision-making.\nClear, concise written and verbal communication.\nWe’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:\nComprehensive benefits and retirement programs\nPerformance incentives, Continuing Education Programs\nOther perks to support your well-being\nCareer growth opportunities and product discounts\nOur typical hiring range is between $80,000.00 and $131,000.00 per annum. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. We're committed to attracting top talent. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role. #LI-AG2\nWe may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.\nAbout Us\nCanadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.\nOur Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging\nWe are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.\nAccommodations\nWe stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. 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