Senior Enterprise Architect

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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 and leadership direction evolve.

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 can be based out of one our main offices including: Mississauga, ON. Calgary, AB; Stellarton, NS.

The successful candidate will bring a broad enterprise architecture experience with demonstrated depth across retail store and unified commerce technologies. The candidate will bring the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.

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.

Lead and influence technology decision‑making, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with business strategy

Maintain a view of current, transition, and target‑state architectures across key domains, including:

Store technology (POS, in store systems, ESLs, peripherals)

Unified commerce and omnichannel capabilities

Customer, loyalty, promotions, and marketing technology ecosystems

Partner closely with business, product, and technology leaders to ensure architectural direction supports customer experience, operational efficiency, and growth.

Guide modernization initiatives by identifying capability gaps, technical debt, integration challenges, and proposing pragmatic transformation paths

Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, and governance models

Support the solution delivery lifecycle, providing architectural guidance and oversight while empowering Domain and Solution Architects

Act as a generalist Enterprise Architect, capable of shifting focus across domains as business strategy, leadership priorities, or market conditions change

What You Bring to the Table Core Capabilities

Ability to understand and translate business strategy into architectural direction

Proven experience balancing short‑term execution with long‑term strategy

Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence, and align stakeholder groups

Strong analytical and systems‑thinking skills, with a pragmatic, outcome‑oriented mindset.

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

Experience working within modern architecture frameworks and repositories

Domain & Technology Experience

Demonstrated experience across retail and customer‑facing technology, including:

Store technology (POS, in store systems, ESLs, peripheral integrations)

Unified commerce / omnichannel architectures

Loyalty, promotions, and customer engagement platforms

Experience designing or governing architectures that span store, digital, and enterprise systems

Familiarity with modern data platforms, e.g., Snowflake (considered an asset)

Exposure to technologies such as cloud‑native platforms, automation, AI/ML, and event‑driven architectures (considered an asset)

Additional Assets

Experience operating in large‑scale retail

Ability to mentor architects and contribute to the maturity of an enterprise architecture practice

Bilingualism (English and French) considered an asset

Who We Are 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.

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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is fuelled by our purpose and values. It shapes our culture and drives business success. As a family nurturing families, we embed DE&I into everything we do. We know that it takes open minds and respect for distinct perspectives to create engaging workplaces, inclusive customer experiences and strong community partnerships. 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.

What We Offer

Comprehensive Benefits Package with health and dental coverage, life insurance, and short‑and‑long‑term disability insurance.

Access to Virtual Health Care and an Employee and Family Assistance Program for personalized support.

Retirement and Savings Plan to help you build financial security.

10% In‑Store Discount at participating banners, plus additional discount programs.

Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), giving you the opportunity to invest in the company’s success.

Learning and Development Resources to support your career growth.

Parental Leave Top‑Up to assist growing families.

Paid Vacation and Days Off to help you recharge.

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 expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required—please click the “I’m interested” button above. Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.

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To drive our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture 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.

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support efficiencies in the candidate screening, assessment, and recruitment processes. These AI tools do not make hiring decisions on behalf of the Company, these decisions are made by our Hiring Teams.

If you feel that this describes the kind of work you want to do and you are excited about what Sobeys has to offer, then please apply by the posting end date indicated above. We encourage candidates to submit a resume and take the time to ensure that their application highlights what makes them uniquely qualified for this opportunity!

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.

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