Solutions Architect

We are looking for a results-driven, experienced, and innovative Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of a comprehensive legacy modernization program. The Solution Architect will play a crucial role in driving the transformation of our legacy systems to modern, scalable, and efficient architectures, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.

As a member of the Architecture Team, you will help Lead the architectural design and planning of legacy modernization initiatives, including rehosting, rearchitecting, and refactoring of applications and systems. You play a key role working with our business teams to understand requirements and helping guide our technical leads and technical architects to build reliable and scalable solutions that meets business needs.

While this role is not a hand-on coder, we are looking for candidates with recent experience as part of a delivery organization, who can get into the implementation details of solutions as required.

• Lead solution discussions with multiple team members and drive the discussion and outcomes
• Analyze existing legacy systems to identify opportunities for modernization, improvements, and potential risks
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, delivery leads, and technical teams to define and understand business requirements, technical constraints, and project objectives
• Create high level and detailed technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, system workflows, data flows, and integration patterns
• Provide leadership to teams on architectural best practices and patterns and how to apply them to solutions
• Work closely with development teams to provide guidance and ensure adherence to architectural best practices during the implementation phase
• Collaborate with testing teams to define testing strategies and ensure the quality and reliability of modernized systems
• Dive deep to troubleshoot when needed and clearly communicate your findings and proposed solutions
• Drive the adoption of modern technology stacks and practices, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in legacy modernization and architecture.

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
• 7+ years I.T. experience in progressive analysis and design related positions with 3+ years experience working in an architect/system design role
• Experience with modern stacks including cloud, data pipelines, microservices, containers, CI/CD
• Experience interpreting and applying security best practices to create, harden and secure infrastructure and applications
• Experience with identity management, authentication, and authorization
• Experience with event-driven/reactive architectures and integrations
• Experience with batch and API based system to system integrations
• Experience using and developing RESTful services
• Understanding of TLS/SSL, encryption, and key management principles
• Adept at balancing the immediate needs of a project (business requirements and business strategy) with Enterprise Architecture standards and the declared IT target state to achieve a win-win situation
• Experience working closely with both Business and IT stakeholders, and proven experience in building and managing professional relationships and consensus-building throughout all levels of an organization
• Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional skills in facilitating meetings, interviewing, probing, and influencing others
• Ability to create and deliver effective presentations and briefings up to Senior Management / Executive levels
• Sound knowledge of technical architecture, virtualized, Cloud-native, and SaaS implementation
• Demonstrated ability to think and communicate in both abstract and concrete concepts, and to do so appropriately for the audience
• Working knowledge of and enthusiasm for the Agile/SCRUM project approach
• Experience in the Retail industry is an asset
• Experience building and supporting Legacy Modernization initiatives in an asset

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We 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.

Accommodations

We 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. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

We are one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can.

We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment. If you're ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here, so apply today.