Summary

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

Qualifications

MUST HAVE

• 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

• Robust ability to translate business requirements into architecture artifacts, patterns, and roadmaps.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences

PREFERRED

• 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

NICE TO HAVE

• Active use of AI-powered tools to improve architectural productivity

📌 Senior Architect (Mississauga)
🏢 Walmart Canada
📍 Mississauga