Enterprise Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the domain technology roadmap, including current-state evaluations, target-state architecture, capability mapping, and organized transition plans that align with enterprise investment cycles.

• Lead architecture governance by overseeing design assessments, architecture decision records (ADRs), and compliance standards within your domain.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to assess technology alternatives, establish integration patterns, and ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term strategic goals.

• Define and refine the end-to-end architecture for the returns lifecycle, encompassing return initiation, routing, triage, refund orchestration, restocking, refurbishment, and secondary-market disposition.

• Design integrations across order management systems (OMS), warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), inventory, finance, and carrier ecosystems.

• Work with Supply Chain, Store Operations, and Customer Care leaders to enhance return cycle times, recovery values, and cost-to-serve metrics.

• Define and advance the target-state architecture for unified commerce, ensuring a seamless experience for customers and associates across both digital and physical channels.

• Architect the landscape for POS and store operations, including modernization strategies, cloud-native POS solutions, and applications for associates.

• Design omnichannel fulfillment architecture, incorporating BOPIS, curbside pickup, ship-from-store, endless aisle, and store-to-store transfers.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of enterprise architecture experience in consumer-facing retail, with familiarity in areas such as store systems, omnichannel, supply chain, or reverse logistics.

• Demonstrated experience in managing technology roadmaps, capability maps, and architecture governance, including design reviews, ADRs, and standards.

• Proven capability to convert business strategies into target-state architectures, transition plans, and sequenced investment cases.

• Practical knowledge of at least one enterprise architecture framework, such as TOGAF, Zachman, or ArchiMate.

• A solid technical foundation in cloud platforms (preferably Azure), microservices, APIs, event-driven integration, and data architecture.

• Experience in an agile enterprise architecture environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment

• Employee discounts on outstanding technology from day one.

• Flexible health benefits and wellness program.

• TFSA and RRSP programs.

• 100% matched company pension plan.

• Training programs to develop new and transferable skills.