With a Global Support Campus in Vancouver and additional Support Office hubs in major cities across North America - including Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle - our workplace network is strategically designed to support our People and serve our Clients a frictionless experience. So, you can do what you do best - with us. As the Enterprise Data Architect, you will lead the strategic standards definition, and governance of Aritzia's enterprise data architecture. Reporting directly to the Director of Data Governance (with a matrix link to Global Architecture), you will not be building pipelines in isolation; instead, you will define the architectural guardrails, canonical models, and semantic standards that empower our engineering squads, analytics teams, and business domains to build trusted, scalable data capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in establishing architecture reviews, driving AI-ready data literacy, and ensuring enterprise-wide data interoperability across our modern tech stack. With your valuable contribution to the business in this role, the opportunities are endless - from a rewarding career in data to continued growth with Aritzia.**THE ROLE****THE QUALIFICATIONS**Proven skills, education, and/or applicable certifications:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or equivalent experience; Master's preferred. 15+ years of progressive experience across enterprise data, analytics, data platforms, enterprise architecture, or data engineering leadership, including significant experience in principal or lead architecture roles.Hands-on architecture experience with modern public cloud data ecosystems across GCP, AWS, or Azure, and platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift,



Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent.Solid experience architecting lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, orchestration, semantic, BI, and ML/AI consumption patterns with a focus on scalability, reliability, governance, observability, and cost-to-serve.Strong information architecture and data modeling experience across conceptual, logical, and physical layers, including canonical models, semantic layers, metrics layers, dimensional modeling, data contracts, and domain data products.Proven experience establishing enterprise data governance capabilities, including ownership, stewardship, metadata, glossary, catalog, lineage, quality, classification, privacy, retention, and lifecycle management.Experience building or enabling federated data product operating models, Data Mesh principles, domain ownership, reusable data templates, automation, standards, and platform paved roads.Experience with data catalog, governance, lineage, MDM, observability, and quality tools such as dbt, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Denodo, cloud-native governance services, or equivalent.Knowledge in data integration and engineering patterns including batch, streaming, CDC, APIs, event-driven architecture, Kafka or cloud-native messaging, pipeline orchestration, and ELT/ETL.Experience enabling AI-ready data foundations for governed reporting, analytics, machine learning, GenAI, semantic search,



knowledge representation, and emerging agentic use cases.Experience partnering across Digital, Retail, Product, Supply Chain, Corporate, Finance, Customer, ESG, or similarly complex consumer domains strongly preferred.Demonstrated ability to influence VP and C-level stakeholders through clarity of technical thought, balanced trade-off analysis, business-aligned recommendations, and executive-ready storytelling.**THE COMPENSATION**At Aritzia, we provide market-leading compensation packages designed to reward impact through our pay-for-performance philosophy.The range for roles at this level is $100,000 - $300,000 per year. Total compensation may include base, bonus and/or equity depending on the role, which has the potential to be greater than this range.With comprehensive benefits, aspirational workspaces, and elevated perks and experiences - we provide it all.Some of the industry-leading benefits you will receive working at Aritzia:**Everyday Luxury. To Elevate Your World.(TM)**We are Everyday Luxury. It's what we do and how we do it - together. It's working alongside world-class talent in pursuit of world-class results. It's maximizing your potential in a high-performance culture. It's knowing that wherever you are, you belong. It's elevating your world - and the world of those who love and will love Aritzia. It's You. And an endless runway of opportunity.**Join us to elevate your world.**We're committed to making your experience positive and transparent. Please note, our recruiters will only contact you using an @aritzia.com email address. If you receive recruitment-related messages from other domains, please disregard them.
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📌 Technology - Enterprise Data Architect (Vancouver)
🏢 Aritzia
📍 Vancouver