Senior Architect

Position Summary...Partners with stakeholders to develop solutions aligned with IT and business strategies, focusing on supply chain, logistics, and merchandising to advance business goals and ensure cost efficiency.What you'll do...

The Senior Architect advises business and IT on architectural options, explaining implications and identifying risks related to component or application implementation. This role designs and implements solutions that integrate various processes and application systems, ensuring alignment with key functional and non-functional requirements. Collaboration with enterprise architects and software engineers will be necessary to translate business capabilities into a conceptual architecture.

The Senior Architect engages in business, technology, and architecture planning sessions, anticipating future changes and strategies. By evaluating business and application architecture, this role ensures flexibility for incremental development, maintenance, and future enhancements. The position provides expert input on significant business processes or capability-altering projects, understanding market positioning and solution value.

Responsible for designing solutions and overseeing their implementation, the Senior Architect works with product owners, project teams, solution delivery leads, and business teams to understand business strategies. This role facilitates solution design review meetings with stakeholders, ensuring solutions support business goals and evaluating budget impacts based on total cost of ownership analyses.

The Senior Architect may use industry research to enhance the technology environment by comparing internal processes with industry best practices and influencing future industry solutions to fit internal needs. This role also builds and leverages internal and external partnerships to achieve business goals, fostering a customer-focused environment and supporting continuous learning.

Responsible for the creation and presentation of architecture design documents and patterns that incorporate business context, current state system context, future state, security requirements, networking, and disaster recovery

Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, encompassing application development, systems design, network architecture, and systems integration with specific experience in supply chain and logistics technology.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Microsoft Azure and GCP architecture certifications (preferred).

Experience with solution architecture in cloud-native environments (preferred).

TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification (nice to have).

Familiarity with architecture governance and FinOps (preferred)

 Experience leveraging AI/ML for process automation and efficiency. (nice to have)

Demonstrated ability to rapidly extract and define project scope and requirements, making informed decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder technology environments.

Strong analytical and consultative skills, with proven expertise in communication, facilitation, and professional business writing.

Proven ability to balance immediate project needs—including business requirements and strategic objectives—with Enterprise Architecture standards and IT guiding principles to deliver optimal outcomes.

Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.

Exceptional facilitation skills, with the ability to lead meetings, ask insightful questions, and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

The pay range for this position is $91, $126, Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

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L'échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 91,900.00 à 126, La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience pertinente.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age - 16 or olderPreferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, CanadaAre you currently a Walmart associate?Please login to your Workday account and use the Find Jobs report to apply for this job.

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