Solutions Architect – Canadian Tire – Toronto, ON

Canadian Tire is filling two Solutions Architect positions in Toronto, ON, offered on a full-time basis with a salary range of $80,000–$131,000 per year. These roles cover end-to-end architecture across retail domains including supply chain, store technology, merchandising, and eCommerce.

Day to day, you’ll design and govern architectures for complex retail platforms, translate business outcomes into technical solutions, and work alongside product, engineering, data, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

About the Role: Solutions Architect

You’ll lead solution architecture for initiatives spanning supply chain and logistics, store technology, merchandising, and digital and omnichannel platforms. That includes producing architecture deliverables such as high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, and architecture decision records (ADRs).

A significant part of the work involves cloud, data, and AI architecture. You’ll design cloud-first solutions on Azure and/or Google Cloud, architect enterprise integrations using APIs and event-driven patterns, and partner with data and AI teams on AI/ML lifecycle architecture, GenAI use cases with responsible AI guardrails, and advanced decisioning for forecasting, pricing, inventory, personalization, and fraud.

You’ll also participate in architecture reviews, define reusable reference architectures, and mentor engineers and analysts. Communicating architectural intent and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences is a consistent part of this position.

Benefits and Salary

The typical hiring range is $80,000–$131,000 per year. Actual salary depends on your experience, job-related knowledge, skills, market location, and internal equity. For roles considered critical, the compensation offering is reviewed against market rate.

Canadian Tire offers comprehensive benefits and retirement programs, performance incentives, continuing education programs, career growth opportunities, and product discounts. The benefits package includes mental health coverage of $5,000 per year for eligible employees and their families, along with total well-being tools and resources. The company also provides Canadian Tire Profit Sharing and supported learning through the Triangle Learning Academy.

Responsibilities

The two Solutions Architects will cover retail domains from supply chain and store technology through to digital platforms and AI. Duties include both hands-on architecture design and governance work, as well as stakeholder engagement and team mentorship.

• Lead solution architecture for initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms, defining target-state architectures and transition roadmaps aligned to enterprise standards.
• Produce and maintain architecture deliverables: high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, non-functional requirements (NFRs), deployment views, and ADRs.
• Architect retail domain solutions covering supply chain and logistics (demand planning, replenishment, WMS/TMS, DC automation, last-mile), store technology (POS, RFID, edge, offline/nearline), merchandising (PIM, pricing and promotions, assortment planning), and digital and omnichannel (eCommerce, order management, BOPIS/ship-from-store, returns, customer identity).
• Design cloud-first solutions using Azure and/or Google Cloud, including networking, identity, and deployment models.
• Architect enterprise integration using APIs, event-driven patterns, streaming, and batch processing.
• Partner with data and AI teams on AI/ML lifecycle architecture, GenAI use cases with responsible AI guardrails, and advanced decisioning for forecasting, pricing, inventory, personalization, and fraud.
• Promote data architecture practices including domain-aligned models, master and reference data, lineage, and privacy.
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, define reusable reference architectures and patterns, and ensure secure-by-design and operationally ready solutions in partnership with security and SRE teams.
• Mentor engineers and analysts and contribute to architecture and engineering communities of practice.
• Work with product, engineering, and business leaders to shape solution options and trade-offs, and act as a trusted advisor during delivery and planning.

Requirements / Skills

The posting distinguishes between required experience, strongly preferred experience, and core skills. You’ll need at least 7 years in technology with 3 or more years in solution or technical architecture roles, along with hands-on retail platform and cloud experience. Several additional areas are strongly preferred rather than mandatory.

• 7+ years in technology with 3+ years in solution or technical architecture roles (required).
• Retail platform experience: delivering solutions across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital (required).
• API-led and event-driven integration architecture: strong hands-on experience (required).
• Cloud platforms: hands-on experience with Azure and/or GCP including networking, identity, and deployment models (required).
• Security, resiliency, performance, and observability: strong understanding required.
• Retail enterprise platforms such as OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, pricing or promotion engines (strongly preferred).
• Data platform and analytics architecture: lakehouse/warehouse patterns and streaming (strongly preferred).
• AI/ML or GenAI architecture including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI considerations (strongly preferred).
• Store edge computing or offline-first architecture experience (strongly preferred).
• Architecture modelling: C4, UML, sequence and data flows, domain models (core skill).
• Analytical thinking and decision-making, and clear written and verbal communication (core skills).

How to Apply

To apply, use the link below to submit your application through the Canadian Tire careers portal. Have your resume up to date and ready to upload before you begin.

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