Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Platform Architect, Integrations to own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

- Own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture supporting scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems
- Provide architectural oversight through design reviews and technical guidance grounded in hands‑on integration experience
- Define and champion modern integration patterns with a strong emphasis on asynchronous, event‑driven, and streaming architectures
- Define, document, and maintain enterprise integration patterns, reference architectures, and standards
- Define enterprise REST API standards including resource modelling, HTTP semantics, versioning, and long‑term compatibility strategies
- Establish and govern the API platform using Azure API Management as a shared enterprise capability
- Guide technology selection across integration platforms, balancing throughput, latency, reliability, and cost
- Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-domain integration scenarios and mission‑critical production flows
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure architectures are production‑ready, observable, and aligned with platform and security standards
- Shape microservices interaction patterns and determine when to use synchronous APIs versus asynchronous or event‑driven integration
- Work closely with Enterprise Architects, platform teams, application teams, and security partners

Requirements





- Proven experience architecting enterprise‑scale integration solutions across distributed systems
- Deep expertise in integration architecture patterns including event‑driven, asynchronous messaging, and streaming architectures
- Hands‑on Java development experience building production‑grade services
- Practical understanding of Azure infrastructure including AKS, Azure Service Bus, Azure AD, RBAC, APIM, and Azure security principles
- 5+ years in a Senior Architectural role (preferred)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years in an Agile delivery organization (SAFe certification preferred)
- Experience designing and building APIs on AKS, integrating with broker‑based messaging systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, Pulsar)
- Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or Pulsar
- Experience operating integration workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Background defining enterprise‑wide integration governance or platform operating models
- Excellent oral and written communication skills

Benefits

- Salary range: $80,000 – $131,000 per year
- Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
- Performance incentives and continuing education programs
- Mental health perks of $5,000 per year
- Career growth opportunities and product discounts
- Canadian Tire Profit Sharing and Triangle Learning Academy

5+ years in a Senior Architectural role, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, 2+ years in Agile delivery, deep expertise in event‑driven and asynchronous integration patterns, hands‑on Java development, Azure platform experience including AKS and APIM

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📌 Platform Architect, Integrations (Toronto)
🏢 Canadian Tire
📍 Toronto