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Requisition ID: 188177
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Enterprise Architect
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; Ontario
City: Stellarton / Calgary / Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office, Calgary Office, King St. Office

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to make an Impact?

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect with experience in E-Commerce, Loyalty, and Marketing Technology stacks. This role will play a critical part in defining the technology landscape while ensuring alignment with business goals.
As an Enterprise Architect, you will partner with key stakeholders to assess capability and technology gaps, identify opportunities for modernization and balance short-term needs with long-term goals by offering incremental approaches to achieve objectives.

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent! This role can be based out of one our main offices in Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; or Calgary, AB.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

What You’ll Do:

• Guide and influence technology decision-making, ensuring scalable, secure, and forward-looking architectures that deliver value for our employees, stores and customers.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to ensure architecture is aligned with business strategy and customer experience goals.
• Own an up-to-date view of current, transition, and target state architectures for e-commerce, loyalty, and marketing technologies.
• Establish best practices for architecture governance, standards, and delivery models.
• Support the solution delivery lifecycle, ensuring adherence to EA principles and industry best practices.

What you have to offer:

What you bring to the table:

• Ability to understand business strategy and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to effectively research emerging technologies and trends, standards and products.
• Ability to analyze project, program and portfolio needs, as well as to determine the resources needed to achieve objectives and overcome cross-functional barriers.
• Ability to balance short-term results with long-term needs and to offer incremental approaches to achieve strategic objectives.

What You Have to Offer:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in IT, with 3+ years as an Enterprise or Solution Architect.
• Knowledge of modern architecture repositories and frameworks.
• Expertise in IT business processes and technology planning.
• Experience in designing and implementing architectures for e-commerce, digital marketing stacks, and loyalty platforms.
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake to enable data-driven decision-making and personalized customer interactions (considered an asset).
• Experience with advanced technologies (AI, ML, automation, cloud-native solutions) to drive innovation in customer engagement and marketing (considered an asset).
• Bilingualism (English and French) considered an asset.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.