Retail Solution Architect

Location: Toronto, ON, Mississauga, ON, Calgary, AB, Oakville, ON

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Number of Openings: 4

We’re looking for multiple Retail Solution Architects to design and govern end-to-end solutions across the retail value chain—Supply Chain & Logistics, Store Technology, Merchandising, eCommerce/Digital, and enabling capabilities including AI/ML, data platforms, integration, and cloud. You will translate business outcomes into secure, scalable, and resilient architectures, partnering closely with product, engineering, data, security, and operations teams.

What you'll do

Architecture & Solution Design

• Lead solution architecture for initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms.

• Produce and maintain architecture deliverables: high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, NFRs, deployment views, and architecture decision records (ADRs).

• Define target-state architectures and transition roadmaps aligned to enterprise standards.

• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements: availability, performance, resiliency, scalability, security, and operability

Retail Domain Enablement (Cross-domain)

• Architect solutions across domains including:

• Supply Chain & Logistics: demand planning, replenishment, inventory visibility, WMS/TMS integration, ASN, yard management, DC automation, last-mile.

• Store Technology: POS, store inventory, handhelds, RFID, edge solutions, offline/nearline patterns, store networking.

• Merchandising: PIM, pricing & promotions, assortment planning, vendor onboarding, space/category analytics.

• Digital & Omnichannel: eCommerce, order management, fulfillment orchestration (BOPIS/ship-from-store), returns, customer identity.

Cloud, Data, Integration & AI

• Design cloud-first solutions using Azure and/or Google Cloud architecture best practices.

• Architect enterprise integration using APIs, event-driven patterns, streaming, and batch.

• Partner with data and AI teams to enable:

  • AI/ML lifecycle architecture (training pipelines, deployment patterns, inference)

  • GenAI-enabled use cases with responsible AI guardrails

  • Advanced decisioning for forecasting, pricing, inventory, personalization, and fraud.

• Promote strong data architecture practices: domain-aligned models, master/reference data, lineage, and privacy.

Governance, Standards & Delivery Enablement

• Participate in and lead architecture reviews; provide guardrails without slowing delivery.

• Define and promote reusable reference architectures and patterns.

• Ensure secure-by-design and operationally ready solutions in partnership with security and SRE teams.

• Mentor engineers and analysts; contribute to architecture and engineering communities of practice.

Stakeholder Partnership & Influence

• Work with Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to shape solution options and trade-offs.

• Clearly communicate architectural intent, risks, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Act as a trusted advisor during delivery and planning.

What you bring (Qualifications)

Required experience

• 7+ years in technology with 3+ years in solution or technical architecture roles.

• Experience delivering solutions across retail platforms (supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital).

• Strong experience with API-led and event-driven integration architectures.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP) including networking, identity, and deployment models.

• Strong understanding of security, resiliency, performance, and observability.

Strongly preferred

• Experience with retail enterprise platforms such as OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, pricing or promotion engines.

• Data platform and analytics architecture experience (lakehouse/warehouse patterns, streaming).

• AI/ML or GenAI architecture exposure, including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI considerations.

• Store edge computing or offline-first architecture experience.

Core skills

• Architecture modeling (C4, UML, sequence/data flows, domain models).

• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making.

• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs

• Other perks to support your well-being

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Our 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

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We 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.

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.