Solution Architect
Requisition ID: 191461
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - Marketing
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
We are seeking an experienced SAP Customer Data Cloud (Gigya) Solution Architect to lead the design, implementation, and governance of customer identity and access management (CIAM) solutions. The Solution Architect will work closely with business stakeholders, product managers, and technical teams to design scalable, secure, and customer-centric digital identity platforms that enable personalized and compliant customer experiences.
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Solution Architect. This role is based out of our office in Mississauga, ON.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
Key Responsibilities
- Solution Design & Architecture
- Lead the end-to-end architecture design of SAP CDC solutions across web, mobile, and API channels.
- Define integration patterns with downstream applications (CRM, ERP, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, etc.).
- Ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles, security standards, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
- Implementation Leadership
- Provide technical guidance to development teams on SAP CDC configurations (registration flows, progressive profiling, social login, preference management, consent).
- Design and implement authentication, authorization, and single sign-on (SSO) frameworks.
- Oversee API management, data flows, and middleware integrations.
- Governance & Best Practices
- Establish CIAM best practices, reusable templates, and reference architectures.
- Conduct architecture reviews, technical assessments, and solution audits.
- Define standards for identity lifecycle management, privacy, and data protection.
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Collaborate with SAP, implementation partners, and security teams to drive solution delivery.
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for SAP CDC capabilities.
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What you have to offer:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, with at least 2+ years hands-on with SAP CDC (Gigya).
- Strong understanding of CIAM concepts: authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle, preference & consent management.
- Experience integrating SAP CDC with enterprise systems (e.g. Salesforce, Adobe, custom apps).
- Proficiency in REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JSON, JavaScript.
- Knowledge of security & privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS).
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP Certified Customer Data Cloud professional.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Exposure to other CIAM tools (Okta/Auth0, Ping, Microsoft Entra ID) for comparative solutioning.
- Familiarity with DevOps & CI/CD pipelines for CIAM solution delivery.
- Previous consulting or large-scale digital transformation experience.
At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.