Solutions Architect

Requisition : 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, Fresh Co, 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, Dev Ops, 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, Dev Ops, 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 (., 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…