Senior Architect

Walmart Canada Corp; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Mississauga seeks a Senior Architect to drive architectural solutions aligned with IT and business strategies. The role involves designing cloud-native architectures, advising on application rationalization, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure cost efficiency and business alignment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years in architecture roles.
• Experience in designing resilient, scalable, and secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements solutions that integrate various processes.
• Advises on architectural options and application rationalization.
• Engages in business and technology planning sessions.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

AI/ML for automation

Application rationalization

Technical debt reduction

Architecture Governance

Education

TOGAF

SAFe Agile

Google Cloud Professional Architect

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect

Job description

Position Summary...

Partners with stakeholders to develop solutions aligned with IT and business strategies, focusing on omni-channel solutions, supply chain, logistics, and merchandising to advance business goals and ensure cost efficiency.

What you'll do...

The Senior Architect advises business and IT on architectural options, explaining implications and identifying risks related to component or application implementation. This role designs and implements solutions that integrate various processes and application systems, ensuring alignment with key functional and non-functional requirements. Collaboration with enterprise and business architects may be necessary to translate business capabilities into a conceptual architecture.

The Senior Architect engages in business, technology, and architecture planning sessions, anticipating future changes and strategies. By evaluating business and application architecture, this role ensures flexibility for incremental development, maintenance, and future enhancements. The position provides expert input on significant business process or capability-altering projects, understanding market positioning and solution value.

Responsible for designing solutions and overseeing their implementation, the Senior Architect works with product owners, project teams, solution delivery leads, infrastructure leads, and business teams to understand business strategies. This role facilitates solution design review meetings with stakeholders, ensuring solutions support business goals and evaluating budget impacts based on total cost of ownership analyses.

The Senior Architect advises on architectural options, application rationalization, and technical debt reduction, with a deep understanding of FinOps to guide cloud cost management.

The Senior Architect is a visionary technology leader experienced in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, AI/ML-driven solutions, and event-driven architectures. Experience in automation leveraging AI/ML for process optimization and efficiency is also required.

This role involves industry research, building partnerships, and collaborating with international and market architects to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.

Leadership Expectations:

• Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect, fosters a culture of belonging, and supports a positive environment.
• Acts with Integrity: Maintains high standards of ethics and compliance, supports Walmart values, and promotes a culture of transparency and accountability.
• Serve our Customers: Delivers results with a customer-first approach, considering data and insights in decision-making.
• Strive for Excellence: Continuously seeks improvement, supports innovation, and embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years in architecture roles, with a solid understanding of frameworks and methodologies.
• Deep experience in designing resilient, scalable, and secure solutions for cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Proven experience in application rationalization and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Experience in leveraging AI/ML for automation and process optimization.
• Proven experience in Architecture Governance and FinOps.
• Understanding of Architecture Principles, Patterns, and Modeling.
• Ability to build architectures in an agile environment.
• Ability to define architecture artifacts for various stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe Agile.
• Google Cloud Professional Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location: 1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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