Principal Architect
What will you do
Principal Architect plays a vital role in ensuring smooth data integration, enhancing operational efficiency, enabling data-driven decision-making, and future-proofing an organization's data infrastructure.
In this role, you'll do:
Integration strategy and planning: You will collaborate with stakeholders to define integration strategies and plans based on business requirements and existing system landscapes. This includes identifying the most suitable integration patterns, technologies, and tools to achieve seamless connectivity between systems.
Designing and architecting integration solutions: You will be responsible for designing integration solutions that incorporate data streaming capabilities. This includes analyzing business requirements, understanding the existing system landscape, and designing architectures that enable real-time data processing and streaming.
Middleware configuration and management: You will configure and manage middleware platforms such as application servers, message brokers, ESBs (Enterprise Service Buses), and API gateways. This involves setting up configurations, monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring high availability.
Security and compliance: Ensuring the security and compliance of data exchanged between systems is crucial. You will implement authentication mechanisms, encryption techniques, access controls, and other security measures based on established patterns.
Performance optimization: You will analyze system performance metrics and identify areas for improvement in terms of throughput, latency, scalability, and resource utilization. Leveraging your knowledge of integration platforms, you will optimize configurations to enhance overall system performance.
What you bring
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Minimum of 7 years of experience as an Integration Architect or in a similar role.
Strong understanding of integration and event streaming concepts, methodologies, and best practices.
Experience with event streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Azure Eventhubs.
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is required.
Knowledge and hands on experience of how to leverage cloud services for event streaming architectures, such as managed Kafka services or serverless computing is required.
The ability to integrate the event streaming platform with various data sources and downstream systems is important.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Proactive and action oriented, willing to work with stakeholders to isolate problems and help develop solutions.
Team player with a willingness to listen, collaborate, and work in a group setting to solve challenging problems.
Value progress over perfection, using a growth mindset to continuously aim to help grow the business.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.
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About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.