We're more than Canada's largest independent hardware and building supplies retailer—we're part of communities across the nation.
Bridging IT and Marketing for Smarter Customer Engagement
As an IT Architect - Marketing, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and lifecycle management of technology architectures and application architectures that support one or more application systems. You will build and maintain a holistic view of an ideal Marketing technology platform architecture that supports Home Hardware's MarTech roadmap. Led by the Director, IT eCommerce, this opportunity suits a results-oriented and proactive professional, with prior experience supporting marketing automation.
Ready to make an impact in a new role? Here's how:
Lead the design, development, and deployment of technical and application solutions to meet business requirements that are cost effective and sustainable.
Translate business requirements using complex methods and models to determine appropriate system solutions.
Provide input into annual budget planning for technology migrations and project cost estimation.
Research, identify, test, certify, and recommend technology products required for solution delivery.
Establish and implement technology migration strategies for a specific application or architecture within an IT portfolio.
Lead technology review meetings and ensure appropriate governance processes are followed.
Design and write high quality code to evolve Home's Marketing Technologies.
Ensure all necessary architecture content is documented and available.
Participate in other architecture decisions and validations of domain architectures as required.
We're looking for:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with five to ten years of progressive experience within IT, including expert level knowledge of Marketing Automation and Customer Relationship platforms.
Technically proficient, with the ability to:
Integrate with internal and external API's and databases.
Design and implement REST API's.
Leverage Node.js, JavaScript, JSON, HTML/CSS.
Understand Microsoft marketing technologies such as Customer Data Platform and Microsoft Customer Insights along with Microsoft Azure.
Extensive experience with various integration patterns such as SOAP, REST, file based, FTP using various formats such as JSON and XML.
Comprehensive understanding of systems, applications, and/or networks for practical solutions can be provided that factor system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and overall cost to develop and maintain.
Working knowledge of CI/CD approaches and tool.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
The ability to be onsite three days a week at our corporate office in St. Jacobs, to accommodate our hybrid working model.
How we'll make you feel at Home
Our Team Members enjoy life at Home with our strong culture of support and inclusion, excellent benefits, and a team that always has your back. You will receive:
Competitive earnings opportunity.
Annual Incentive/Bonus Program.
Comprehensive Benefits Program including:
Health, Dental, Vision, Paramedical, Disability coverage, Out of Country Travel Insurance, Life Insurance, Employee Family Assistance Program.
Defined Contribution Pension Plan with Company Match, and choice of contribution level.
Group RRSP.
Discounts from our corporate retail stores.
Home & Auto Insurance discounts.
Competitive vacation time.
Personal and sick time.
Employee Discount Program through Venngo WorkPerks.
Bring your unique skills, thrive with interesting and challenging work, and experience what it's like at Home. Apply today - this is a great opportunity to join a proudly Canadian company that is 100% ready to help you build your future.
Home Hardware recognizes the value of a diverse team. We believe that different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences make us stronger as an organization. Applicants representing the full diversity of communities in Canada are encouraged to apply with confidence. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.
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