Canadian Tire Corporation
Canadian Tire Corporation
Canadian Tire Corporation is a diversified Canadian business spanning retail, financial services, real estate investment, automotive, logistics, and community initiatives. Its retail operations, anchored by Canadian Tire, serve everyday needs across automotive, home and living, recreation, seasonal products, gardening, and repair. The company’s broader organization includes Canadian Tire’s retail network, a financial services division, and CT REIT, supported by approximately 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets. Canadian Tire Corporation’s teams work across these businesses to develop products, operate customer-facing services, and support the company’s presence in communities across Canada.

Senior Solutions Architect, Retail Platforms - Canadian Tire

Senior Solutions Architect role focused on secure retail platforms spanning supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital operations. The position covers cloud, data, integration, and AI architecture at Canadian Tire Corporation.

Description

  • Lead solution architecture for initiatives spanning supply chain, store, merchandising, and digital platforms
  • Create and maintain architecture artifacts, including high-level designs, integration and data flows, sequence diagrams, NFRs, deployment views, and ADRs
  • Establish target-state architectures and transition roadmaps that align with enterprise standards
  • Verify that solutions satisfy availability, performance, resilience, scalability, security, and operability needs
  • Design solutions for supply chain and logistics, store technology, merchandising, and digital or omnichannel domains
  • Develop cloud-first architectures using Azure and/or Google Cloud best practices
  • Design enterprise integrations using APIs, event-driven approaches, streaming, and batch processing
  • Collaborate with data and AI teams on AI/ML lifecycle architecture, GenAI applications, advanced decisioning, and responsible AI controls
  • Advance domain-aligned data models, master and reference data, lineage, and privacy practices
  • Lead or contribute to architecture reviews and establish reusable reference architectures and patterns
  • Deliver secure-by-design solutions that are operationally ready in partnership with security and SRE teams
  • Coach engineers and analysts while contributing to architecture and engineering communities of practice
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to evaluate solution options and trade-offs
  • Explain architectural intent, risks, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Serve as a trusted architecture advisor throughout planning and delivery

Requirements

  • At least seven years of technology experience, including three or more years in solution or technical architecture
  • Experience delivering retail platform solutions across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital environments
  • Strong background in API-led and event-driven integration architecture
  • Practical experience with Azure and/or GCP, including networking, identity, and deployment models
  • Solid knowledge of security, resilience, performance, and observability
  • Experience with retail enterprise platforms such as OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, and pricing or promotion engines
  • Background in data platform and analytics architecture, including lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns
  • Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI architecture, including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI practices
  • Experience with store edge computing or offline-first architecture
  • Proficiency with architecture modeling methods such as C4, UML, sequence and data flows, and domain models
  • Strong analytical reasoning and decision-making skills
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and retirement offerings
  • Performance-based incentives
  • Continuing education programs
  • Additional perks supporting employee well-being
  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Product discounts
  • Store discounts
  • Learning support through the Triangle Learning Academy
  • Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
  • Retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
  • Up to $5,000 annually in mental health benefits for eligible employees and their families
  • Mental health tools and resources available to all employees

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