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We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to help shape and evolve our technology landscape. This role plays a critical function in aligning technology strategy with business outcomes, while maintaining the flexibility to adapt as organizational priorities evolve.
The successful candidate brings broad enterprise architecture experience, with demonstrated ability to navigate complex, multi-domain environments and drive architectural outcomes as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full time opportunity for a Senior Enterprise Architect. This role is based out of our offices located in Mississauga; ON, Stellarton; NS.
What You’ll Do
As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will operate at an enterprise level, guiding architectural direction across multiple domains while balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term strategic outcomes.
You will:
- Lead and influence technology decision-making, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with business strategy
- Act as a true enterprise generalist, shifting across business domains (store, digital, merchandising, supply chain, finance) to ensure architectural consistency, integration alignment and reuse of capabilities across the enterprise
- Partner closely with business, product, and technology leaders to ensure architectural direction supports customer experience, user experience, operational efficiency, and growth.
- Shape and recommend modernization pathways by assessing current-state complexity and defining pragmatic transition strategies towards the target-state.
- Proactively assess the current-state architecture to identify cross-domain gaps, risks and inconsistencies across systems.
- Support the solution delivery lifecycle, providing architectural guidance and oversight while empowering Domain and Solution Architects
- Define, enforce, and operate the architecture governance processes, ensuring decisions are traceable and consistently applied.
- Identify and address gaps in architecture documentation, ensuring core artifacts and roadmaps are current, accessible and aligned across domains.
- Proactively identify opportunities for technology simplification, rationalization and consolidation.
- Lead roadmap and architecture modernization workshops
What You Bring to the Table
Core Capabilities
- Ability to understand and translate business strategy into architectural direction, ensuring decisions directly support business outcomes.
- Ability to connect enterprise priorities to domain-level initiatives
- Ability to understand and model complex, interconnected landscapes across business domains.
- Ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous and/or conflicting priorities to enable balanced architecture decisions.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders across business and technology, acting as a trusted advisor and thought partner
- Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with near-term delivery constraints, ensuring architecture remains actionable and grounded
- Ability to identify opportunities for simplification and rationalization cross complex landscapes
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, with a pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset
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What You Have to Offer
Experience & Education
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years in Enterprise or Senior Architecture roles
- Demonstrated experience operating in complex, large-scale environments with multiple domains, stakeholders, and legacy constraints
- Experience working within modern architecture frameworks and repositories
Domain & Technology Experience
- Demonstrated experience across retail technology landscapes, including store systems, digital commerce, and enterprise platforms
- Experience designing or governing architectures that span multiple domains (store, digital, merchandising, supply chain, finance), with a focus on integration and end-to-end flows
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, data flows, and interoperability across distributed systems
- Experience working with or modernizing legacy systems within hybrid environments
- Experience contributing to the maturity of an Enterprise Architecture practice, including defining standards, improving governance, and enhancing artifact quality
- Experience mentoring architects and supporting the development of domain and solution architecture capabilities
Additional Assets
- Bilingualism (English and French) considered an asset
Who we are
Sobeys is one of Canada’s leading grocery retailers, with more than 1,600 stores across all 10 provinces and banners including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawtons Drug Stores. Our 128,000 teammates and franchise affiliates are passionate about delivering great food and exceptional experiences to our customers and communities.
Learn more about our story and culture:
Who We Are | Why Work With Us
Total Rewards
We offer a Total Rewards package designed to support teammates at work and in life. Depending on role and eligibility, teammates may receive health and dental benefits, retirement and savings programs including an Employee Share Ownership Plan, a 10% in-store discount at participating banners, virtual healthcare and an Employee and Family Assistance Program, learning and development opportunities, parental leave top-up, and paid vacation.
Sobeys is committed to providing a compensation structure that is flexible, equitable and competitive in the market to enable performance and growth. To learn more about this opportunity including the expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required please click the “I’m interested” or "Apply" button above. Individual compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.
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Sobeys is committed to creating accessible and inclusive hiring processes. We will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process.
Please note: Successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work.
