Manager, Data Architecture, Capability & Activation

Canadian Tire Corporation; Front of Yonge; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement

Performance incentives, Continuing Edu

Well-being perks

Career growth opportunities and store/

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a senior Data Architect to translate business strategy into scalable data architecture and enable enterprise data capabilities. You will collaborate with Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams to deliver trusted data assets and support key business decisions.

Reporting to the AVP, Data Capability & Activation, you will map data flows, define standards, and guide modernization efforts while communicating complex

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Data Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Modeling, or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data flows, lineage, metadata, and semantic models.
• Experience working across business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture for priority business domains.
• Map end-to-end data flows from source systems to business consumption.
• Identify authoritative sources and document data lineage.
• Support ontology and semantic-model development through business and technical collaboration.
• Connect enterprise KPIs and business measures to underlying data structures.
• Assess downstream impacts of data, platform, and process changes.
• Develop conceptual and logical data models.
• Support major business initiatives by identifying required data capabilities and dependencies.
• Create architecture standards, patterns, and reusable design approaches.
• Communicate complex data concepts to both technical and business audiences.

Skills

Data Architecture

Information Architecture

Data Modeling

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Business communication

Data governance

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Power BI

GCP

Fabric

Job description

What you'll do

Reporting to the AVP, Data Capability & Activation, you will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical data delivery. You will develop an enterprise understanding of how data flows from source systems through platforms, transformations, semantic layers, analytics, AI solutions, and business processes. You will help create trusted, reusable data assets that support enterprise decision-making and business outcomes. Working closely with business leaders, Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams, you will translate business requirements into scalable data architecture and guide the evolution of enterprise data capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture for priority business domains.


• Map end-to-end data flows from source systems to business consumption.


• Identify authoritative sources and document data lineage.


• Support ontology and semantic-model development through business and technical collaboration.


• Connect enterprise KPIs and business measures to underlying data structures.


• Assess downstream impacts of data, platform, and process changes.


• Develop conceptual and logical data models.


• Support major business initiatives by identifying required data capabilities and dependencies.


• Create architecture standards, patterns, and reusable design approaches.


• Communicate complex data concepts to both technical and business audiences.

What you bring

• 7+ years in Data Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Modeling, or a related discipline.


• Strong understanding of enterprise data flows, lineage, metadata, and semantic models.


• Experience working across business and technology teams.


• Knowledge of modern cloud and analytics platforms.


• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.


• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language.


• Experience supporting large-scale data transformation and modernization efforts.

Preferred experience

• Retail, loyalty, customer, merchandise, supply chain, or financial-services environments.


• Databricks, Azure, Fabric, Power BI, GCP, or comparable cloud ecosystems.


• Enterprise ontology, business glossary, semantic-layer, or data-product initiatives.


• Large enterprise architecture and modernization programs.

What success looks like

• Aligning business concepts and data definitions.


• Improving visibility of enterprise data flows.


• Reducing duplication and conflicting metrics.


• Increasing confidence in KPIs and analytical outputs.


• Enabling business and technology teams to make faster, better-informed decisions.


• Connecting strategic business outcomes to scalable data capabilities.

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.

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, over 1,600 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.

We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can. We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment.

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.

If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here, so