Platform Architect, Integrations

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Platform Architect, Integrations to own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems.

Responsibilities Own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture supporting scalability, resilience, and loose coupling across distributed systems

Provide architectural oversight through design reviews and technical guidance grounded in hands‑on integration experience

Define and champion modern integration patterns with a strong emphasis on asynchronous, event‑driven, and streaming architectures

Define, document, and maintain enterprise integration patterns, reference architectures, and standards

Define enterprise REST API standards including resource modelling, HTTP semantics, versioning, and long‑term compatibility strategies

Establish and govern the API platform using Azure API Management as a shared enterprise capability

Guide technology selection across integration platforms, balancing throughput, latency, reliability, and cost

Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-domain integration scenarios and mission‑critical production flows

Partner with engineering teams to ensure architectures are production‑ready, observable, and aligned with platform and security standards

Shape microservices interaction patterns and determine when to use synchronous APIs versus asynchronous or event‑driven integration

Work closely with Enterprise Architects, platform teams, application teams, and security partners

Requirements Proven experience architecting enterprise‑scale integration solutions across distributed systems

Deep expertise in integration architecture patterns including event‑driven, asynchronous messaging, and streaming architectures

Hands‑on Java development experience building production‑grade services

Practical understanding of Azure infrastructure including AKS, Azure Service Bus, Azure AD, RBAC, APIM, and Azure security principles

5+ years in a Senior Architectural role (preferred)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

2+ years in an Agile delivery organization (SAFe certification preferred)

Experience designing and building APIs on AKS, integrating with broker‑based messaging systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, Pulsar)

Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or Pulsar

Experience operating integration workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service

Background defining enterprise‑wide integration governance or platform operating models

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Benefits Salary range: $80,000 – $131,000 per year

Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

Performance incentives and continuing education programs

Mental health benefits of $5,000 per year

Career growth opportunities and product discounts

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5+ years in a Senior Architectural role, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, 2+ years in Agile delivery, deep expertise in event‑driven and asynchronous integration patterns, hands‑on Java development, Azure platform experience including AKS and APIM

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