Solutions Architect

Requisition ID: 189439

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: Technology Solutions - Marketing

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Ontario

City: Mississauga

Location: Tahoe 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?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team!

At Sobeys, we’re investing in data-driven loyalty and personalization. Our Loyalty Solutions team is building the future of Personalized Offer Management, transitioning from vendor-led systems to in-house ownership. We’re looking for a Solutions Architect who can drive scalable, secure, and integrated architecture to support this transformation.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams including analysts, developers, DevOps, marketing stakeholders, and vendor partners. This is a high-impact role that will directly shape how millions of Canadians experience personalized value from our loyalty programs.

This position is based out of Mississauga, ON.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

Key Responsibilities

Architecture: Design & Implementation

• Maintain and evolve the solution architecture for personalized offers, loyalty integrations and related systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise and domain architecture standards.

• Translate functional requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient technical designs leveraging Azure services, event-driven architecture, and API-first principles.

• Define and document integration patterns, system interactions, and data flow diagrams for core loyalty capabilities.

• Develop and review solution blueprints, HLFDs, and technical architecture deliverables.

• Ensure code quality through code reviews, reusable design patterns, and performance optimization.

• Evaluate trade-offs between architecture options based on performance, cost, maintainability, and delivery speed.

• Evaluate and provide input into discovery initiatives, business proposals and charters for new projects

• Support estimation and dependency management across loyalty and personalized offers related projects.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with product owners, delivery leads, developers, DevOps, data team, and security team to ensure shared architectural understanding and technical feasibility.

• Partner with internal and vendor architects to align on design, integration strategy and governance.

• Act as a technical authority in discussions with business stakeholders, translating requirements into solution designs.

• Assist on recommendations for business process change and change management.

Innovation & Strategic Influence

• Evaluate vendor platforms and plan the transition toward in-house, cloud-native capabilities where feasible.

• Participate in vendor evaluations and POCs for off-the-shelf integration or modernization opportunities.

• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and tools to support future platform capabilities (e.g., AI, personalization engines, headless loyalty).

Governance & Standards

• Coach technical leads and developers, and drive architecture governance, including technical debt management, reusability, and scalability.

• Contribute to and enforce standards around API design, data contracts, identity, observability, and deployment strategies.

• Define and implement non-functional requirements (NFRs) including high availability, performance, and compliance for all existing major capabilities.

• Contribute to observability improvements through architectural design choices.

What you have to offer:

• 10+ years of experience in application design, systems integration and solution architecture with a strong track record in cloud-native environments.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure including services like: App Services, Azure Functions, API Management, ACR, Cosmos DB, Event Grid, Application Gateway, and Key Vault.
• Strong understanding of microservices, API-first design, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
• Strong understanding of security best practices
• Experience collaborating across multiple delivery teams and influencing without direct authority.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts; balance immediate needs with long-term scalability and platform growth
• Thrives in ambiguity and can architect for scale, resilience, and flexibility.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum and SAFe environments.
• Familiarity with personalized offer systems and loyalty programs is a strong plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Bicep, ARM, Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ARO) is an asset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (strongly preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture framework certification.

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.

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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.