Senior Solution Architect BI

Pet Valu Canada Inc. (Company); Markham; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Health & dental benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Learning & development support

Inclusive culture

Company events

Product discounts

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Pet Valu Canada Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect, Business Intelligence in Markham, Ontario. You will lead the BI architecture, oversee the full BI lifecycle from data source analysis to ETL development and reporting, and mentor teams to deliver self-service analytics across business units.

You will work in a hybrid setup, shaping BI strategy, data fabrics, and modern data platforms to empower timely, actionable insights for pet-care decisions and company growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5 years of BI architect experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Promote BI architecture concepts and solutions across IT and business units.
• Collaborate with IT and business partners on BI/reporting initiatives.
• Design and implement data and analytics platforms to enable self-service BI.

Skills

Software development

BI architecture

Requirements gathering

Agile methodologies

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent

Master’s preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Hybrid: Markham, Ontario Job Description:

About Us

Pet Valu is Canada’s leading pet specialty retailer, dedicated to strengthening the bond between dedicated pet lovers and their pets. With 50 years of animal care expertise, we operate over 800 stores across Canada under several banners, including Pet Valu, Bosley’s, Total Pet, Paulmac's Pet, Tisol & Chico. Guided by our mission to deliver products, care, expertise, and memorable moments, Pet Valu is a place where people build meaningful careers while making a positive impact on pets and communities.

What will you do?

A hands-on Senior Architect, Business Intelligence who thrives in a dynamic work environment, this role involves working across the entire BI lifecycle, from source data analysis, Extract Transform Load (ETL) development, through to Analysis and Reporting implementation. This role is accountable for the build out of Data and Analytics platform solutions and the implementation of tools needed to enable data discovery, predictive analytics and other features. This role will design, develop, implement and support solutions that empower the business with timely, actionable information. This role is passionate about new, modern BI technologies/solutions and proposes the solutions that keep Pet Valu BI solution as best in class. The Sr Architect BI acts as a mentor on best practices, both for the development team and for the business in their acceptance of new BI solutions, helping them become more mature in terms of the understanding and correct utilization of their department’s data assets.

Essential Duties

• Promote BI architect concepts and solutions to IT, and business team members.
• Collaborate, support other IT departments and business partners on BI/reporting initiatives/requests.
• Research/Review new BI technologies and solutions.
• Propose new BI technology to ensure BI platforms continue support business needs.
• Providing inputs to BI strategy, and the short term/long term BI roadmap.
• Design Pet Valu Business Intelligent data and data analytic platforms to enable self-service BI capability to different business units.
• Design and implement automated processes, tool sets to enable efficient self-service.
• Define/maintain enterprise-wide standards, best practices, policies on BI development, security, operation, availability.
• Provide Business Intelligence solutions including analytics, dashboards and reports to support Pet Valu in making informed decisions that increase the bottom line through improved quality and services.
• Apply software engineering concepts and best practices to design solutions that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, extensibility, and flexibility.
• Rotated 24/7 Application on call support.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Skills, Experience, Education, Certifications

• At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
• 5 years of BI architect experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s in computer science or equivalent preferred.
• Experience proposing BI strategy, defining short term/long term BI roadmaps.
• Experience with large scale systems involving reporting, transactional systems and integration with other enterprise systems.
• Experience with modern BI data and visualization cloud bases platforms, Snowflake, Tableau, PowerBI, as example.
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture, such as data mesh, data fabric, data lake.
• Experience with ELT/ETL development and data integration.
• Proficiency in system analysis and design.
• Collaborate with the Business Analysts in requirements gathering, prototyping and requirements validation.
• Analyze and verify technical requirements for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
• Resolving technical issues through debugging & investigation.
• Experience with multiple Source/Version control systems and understanding of code merging concepts.
• Working with high performing technology teams.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, source control, and automated testing and deployment.
• Experience with ITIL framework.
• Collaborate with the Business Analysts in requirements gathering, prototyping and requirements validation.
• Analyze and verify technical requirements for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.

Compensation

The targeted salary range for this position is $110,000-$140,000 annually. The final offer will be based on factors such as market location, relevant skills, experience and internal equity.

Why work for us?

Ready to join the team? We’re looking for passionate people who bring strong skills and live our core values of safety, compassion, expertise, and efficiency every day. If you’re energized by doing meaningful work, taking pride in what you deliver, and making a real impact for pets, people, and communities, you’ll feel right at home here. Join us and build a career where purpose, care, and excellence come together - because love lives here.

Some of the perks of working with us include:

• Hybrid, Flexible Work Options
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits
• Employee Share Purchase Plan with company matching
• Learning and Development support tailored to you
• An inclusive, collaborative culture where your voice matters
• Fun company events that keep us connected
• Preferred rates for car rentals, hotels, phone plans and gym discounts
• Generous employee discounts on our products

Pet Valu is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and accessibility.

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

At Pet Valu, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our hiring practices.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Pet Valu may use AI enabled technology to assist in the recruitment process for positions. The use of AI helps us ensure we are providing an equitable and streamlined recruitment experience for all applicants. While AI tools support our recruitment process, all decisions throughout the process are made exclusively by Pet Valu’s hiring team. At no stage does AI determine recruitment outcomes.

We believe in investing in the development of our people and have an industry-leading promotion rate. Our mission is to offer the highest quality products at a great value to improve the quality of life for all pets and pet owners.