Senior Architect

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

7d•CA$91,900 - CA$126,390•Onsite

About The Position

Partners with stakeholders to develop solutions aligned with IT and business strategies, leveraging broad omni-channel retail technology experience to advance business goals and ensure cost efficiency. 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 architects and software engineers will 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 processes 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, 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 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. Responsible for the creation and presentation of architecture design documents and patterns that incorporate business context, current state system context, future state, security requirements, networking, and disaster recovery.

Requirements

7+ years of progressive IT experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a solution or enterprise architecture role
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Proven hands-on background in application development or systems integration, with demonstrated experience designing end-to-end solutions in cloud-native or hybrid environments.
Practical experience designing or integrating AI/ML solutions within enterprise architecture contexts
Strong ability to translate business requirements into architecture artifacts, patterns, and roadmaps.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences

Nice To Haves

Experience in omni-channel retail technology domains, including supply chain, logistics, or merchandising
Architecture governance experience in a large enterprise setting
Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization
Architecture-level cloud certification in Azure or GCP
Active use of AI-powered tools to improve architectural productivity

Responsibilities

Advises business and IT on architectural options, explaining implications and identifying risks related to component or application implementation.
Designs and implements solutions that integrate various processes and application systems, ensuring alignment with key functional and non-functional requirements.
Collaborates with enterprise architects and software engineers to translate business capabilities into a conceptual architecture.
Engages in business, technology, and architecture planning sessions, anticipating future changes and strategies.
Evaluates business and application architecture to ensure flexibility for incremental development, maintenance, and future enhancements.
Provides expert input on significant business processes or capability-altering projects, understanding market positioning and solution value.
Designs solutions and oversees their implementation, working with product owners, project teams, solution delivery leads, and business teams to understand business strategies.
Facilitates solution design review meetings with stakeholders, ensuring solutions support business goals and evaluating budget impacts based on total cost of ownership analyses.
Uses industry research to enhance the technology environment by comparing internal processes with industry best practices and influencing future industry solutions to fit internal needs.
Builds and leverages internal and external partnerships to achieve business goals, fostering a customer-focused environment and supporting continuous learning.
Creates and presents architecture design documents and patterns that incorporate business context, current state system context, future state, security requirements, networking, and disaster recovery.