Solutions Architect
Requisition ID: 189439
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?
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team!
At Sobeys, we’re investing in data-driven loyalty and personalization. Our Loyalty Solutions team is building the future of Personalized Offer Management, transitioning from vendor-led systems to in-house ownership. We’re looking for a Solutions Architect who can drive scalable, secure, and integrated architecture to support this transformation.
You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams including analysts, developers, DevOps, marketing stakeholders, and vendor partners. This is a high-impact role that will directly shape how millions of Canadians experience personalized value from our loyalty programs.
This position is based out of Mississauga, ON.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
What you'll get to do in this fast-paced role:
- Collaborate on high-level technical designs (HLTD), architecture diagrams, and integration flows — ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Participate in Blueprints, HLFD reviews, and high-level estimation and resourcing decisions.
- Review and advise on platform scalability, observability, and performance (e.g., Azure Application Insights, Cosmos DB, event-based flows).
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and cloud-native architectural designs using Azure PaaS, microservices, and API-first patterns.
- Support cross-functional initiatives across Sobeys banners by designing reusable and composable services.
- Leverage and assist with the evolution of enterprise architecture strategic goals.
- Evaluate and provide input into discovery initiatives, business proposals and charters for new projects.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, techniques and processes to enhance software development and quality.
- Coach technical leads and developers to promote consistency, reusability, and alignment with architectural principles.
- Contribute to architectural governance, knowledge sharing, and documentation best practices within Loyalty Solutions.
- Assist in the remediation of stability and performance of existing applications and systems.
- Assist with context diagram(s) & architectural diagram(s).
- Assist with the validate completeness of High level Technical design (HLTD) vs High Level Functional Design (HLFD).
- Consult on recommendations for business process change with respect to total solution.
- Assist in management of change (e.g., distribute tasks to be performed, monitor resources and task execution).
- Determine business and technical requirements for the solution (all or partial).
- Determine Strategy for High Level Design.
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What you have to offer:
What you'll bring to the team:
- Undergraduate degree and a minimum 8 years relevant experience in all aspects of the development and deployment of software solutions in a distributed, cloud-based environment.
- Significant experience in 3 or more distinct software development environments.
- Experience with Azure services, MuleSoft, API Gateway and event-driven architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to align technical solutions to business goal.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and coordinate with others in a matrix organization.
- Proven ability to architect, construct, and deploy solutions in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong technical skill in system integration and secure data exchange.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage a variety of complex projects simultaneously.
- Strong relationship building and management skills to achieve work related goals.
- Knowledge of or experience with loyalty, offers, or marketing technology platforms is a strong asset.
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.