Platform Architect, Integrations

Canadian Tire; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

Performance incentives

Career growth opportunities

Product discounts

Mental health benefits of $5,000 per year

Canadian Tire Profit Sharing

Triangle Learning Academy

Job summary

Canadian Tire is looking for a Platform Architect, Integrations in Toronto to lead the integration strategy and architecture. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in enterprise-scale integration, excels in event-driven and asynchronous patterns, and possesses strong Java and Azure skills. Responsibilities include overseeing the integration architecture, defining API standards, and guiding technology selections. Benefits include a competitive salary range of $80,000 – $131,000, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting enterprise-scale integration solutions across distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in integration architecture patterns including event-driven and asynchronous messaging.
• Hands-on Java development experience building production-grade services.
• Practical understanding of Azure infrastructure including AKS, Service Bus, and security principles.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture supporting scalability, resilience, and loose coupling.
• Provide architectural oversight through design reviews and technical guidance.
• Define enterprise REST API standards and maintain integration patterns.
• Guide technology selection across integration platforms.

Skills

Enterprise-scale integration solutions

Integration architecture patterns

Java development experience

Azure infrastructure

Agile delivery experience

API design and development

Streaming platforms

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Azure AKS

Azure Service Bus

Kafka

Pulsar

Job description

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Platform Architect, Integrations to own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture supporting scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems
• Provide architectural oversight through design reviews and technical guidance grounded in hands‑on integration experience
• Define and champion modern integration patterns with a strong emphasis on asynchronous, event‑driven, and streaming architectures
• Define, document, and maintain enterprise integration patterns, reference architectures, and standards
• Define enterprise REST API standards including resource modelling, HTTP semantics, versioning, and long‑term compatibility strategies
• Establish and govern the API platform using Azure API Management as a shared enterprise capability
• Guide technology selection across integration platforms, balancing throughput, latency, reliability, and cost
• Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-domain integration scenarios and mission‑critical production flows
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure architectures are production‑ready, observable, and aligned with platform and security standards
• Shape microservices interaction patterns and determine when to use synchronous APIs versus asynchronous or event‑driven integration
• Work closely with Enterprise Architects, platform teams, application teams, and security partners

Requirements

• Proven experience architecting enterprise‑scale integration solutions across distributed systems
• Deep expertise in integration architecture patterns including event‑driven, asynchronous messaging, and streaming architectures
• Hands‑on Java development experience building production‑grade services
• Practical understanding of Azure infrastructure including AKS, Azure Service Bus, Azure AD, RBAC, APIM, and Azure security principles
• 5+ years in a Senior Architectural role (preferred)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years in an Agile delivery organization (SAFe certification preferred)
• Experience designing and building APIs on AKS, integrating with broker‑based messaging systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, Pulsar)
• Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or Pulsar
• Experience operating integration workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service
• Background defining enterprise‑wide integration governance or platform operating models
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Benefits

• Salary range: $80,000 – $131,000 per year
• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives and continuing education programs
• Mental health benefits of $5,000 per year
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts
• Canadian Tire Profit Sharing and Triangle Learning Academy

5+ years in a Senior Architectural role, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, 2+ years in Agile delivery, deep expertise in event‑driven and asynchronous integration patterns, hands‑on Java development, Azure platform experience including AKS and APIM