Senior Architect

Walmart Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Mississauga is seeking a Senior Architect to design and implement solutions aligned with business goals. The role involves advising on architectural options, overseeing implementation, and ensuring flexibility for future enhancements. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud-native architectures, AI/ML integration, and a strong understanding of architectural frameworks. This is a full-time position offering competitive compensation.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunities for growth

Diverse work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years in architecture roles.
• Deep experience in designing resilient, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Proven experience in AI / ML for process optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee implementation of architectural solutions.
• Engage in architecture planning sessions.
• Collaborate with teams to translate business capabilities into architecture.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

AI / ML-driven solutions

Distributed systems

Architecture Governance

Technical debt reduction

Application rationalization

Agile environments

Education

Relevant architectural certifications

Bachelor's or Master's in relevant field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

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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 business and IT on architectural options, explaining the benefits and considerations related to application rationalization and technical debt reduction. The Senior Architect has a deep understanding of Financial Operations (FinOps) to guide the effective management of cloud costs.

The Senior Architect is a visionary technology leader with deep experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, AI / ML-driven solutions, and event-driven architectures. This role also requires experience in automation leveraging AI / ML to optimize processes and drive efficiencies.

The Senior Architect may use industry research to enhance the technology environment by comparing internal processes with industry best practices and influencing future industry solutions to fit internal needs. This role also builds and leverages internal and external partnerships to achieve business goals, fostering a customer-focused environment and supporting continuous learning. As part of Architecture Governance, the Senior Architect will collaborate with International and other market Architects to ensure the solution is fit for purpose.

Respect the Individual :

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

Acts With Integrity

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve Our Customers

Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years in architecture roles, with a solid understanding of architectural frameworks and methodologies.
• Deep experience in designing and implementing resilient, scalable, and secure solutions for cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures
• Proven experience in application rationalization and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Experience in leveraging AI / ML for automation to optimize processes and drive efficiencies.
• 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 in consumable format 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.

Age - 16 or older

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.

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