Canadian Tire

Retail Solution Architect

Canadian Tire$80K — $131K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in technology industry; 3+ years in solution or technical architecture roles.
  • Experience delivering solutions across retail platforms (supply chain, stores, merchandising, digital).
  • Strong experience with API-led and event-driven integration architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, specifically Azure and/or GCP.
  • Strong understanding of security, resiliency, performance, and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead solution architecture initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms.
  • Produce and maintain architecture documentation: designs, integration and data flows, deployment views, and decision records.
  • Define target-state architectures and transition roadmaps according to enterprise standards.
  • Ensure solutions comply with non-functional requirements including availability, performance, and security.
  • Design cloud-first solutions employing best practices for Azure or Google Cloud.
  • Architect enterprise integration solutions using APIs and event-driven patterns.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to architecture and engineering communities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs.
  • Performance incentives and Continuing Education Programs.
  • Perks to support employee well-being.
  • Career growth opportunities and product discounts.
Full 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 Canadian Tire

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells a wide range of automotive, hardware, sports and leisure, and home products. Some stores also sell toys and food products. It operates through a network of more than 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets across Canada. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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13,435 employees
Industry
Founded
1922
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