Senior Enterprise Architect

What you'll do

Focusing on our Enterprise Corporate Portfolio :

Build and maintain business capability models, standards, principles, and design patterns

Develop capability heat maps by interviewing business and IT stakeholders and evaluating the desired capabilities against the current technical environment

Build a target architecture that supports delivery of the business outcomes while aligning to technical target states. EA is the lead.

Technical architects and planners from domains will contribute.

Participate in roadmap sessions with domain architects and validate alignment with target state

Review project / product architecture for conformance to standards, principles, and patterns

Enthusiastically participate in Architecture and Technology review boards

We are looking for individuals who are :

Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in a rapidly evolving retail environment

Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize target state, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business

Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who easily build business and technical relationships across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward

Inclusive and motivational leaders who build and develop teams that effectively anticipate and respond to disruption, while consistently delivering strong performance

What you bring

5+ years' experience in technology environment with progressive architectural leadership roles, preferably in retail, banking, and / or automotive sectors.

Experience with both waterfall and agile delivery practices

Hands-on experience with an EA repository tool such as Abacus a plus

Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills to build credibility and collaboration, including developing effective cross-organizational and vendor relationships

Ability to inspire, remove roadblocks, and coach technical teams to reach their full potential

Comfortable using data to inform decision-making process and ability to translate business and IT objectives into technical solutions

Top candidates will have solid knowledge of retail applications and related hardware platforms, operations support, cybersecurity, and cloud environments.

TOGAF and SAFe Certifications are definite assets.

If you are ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly, then this is the place to be.

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes.

Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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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.