What will you do

Principal Data Integration Architect plays a vital role in ensuring smooth data integration, enhancing operational efficiency, enabling data-driven decision-making, and future-proofing an organization's data infrastructure.

In this role, you'll do:

• Integration strategy and planning: You will collaborate with stakeholders to define integration strategies and plans based on business requirements and existing system landscapes. This includes identifying the most suitable integration patterns, technologies, and tools to achieve seamless connectivity between systems.

• Designing and architecting integration solutions: You will be responsible for designing integration solutions that incorporate data streaming capabilities. This includes analyzing business requirements, understanding the existing system landscape, and designing architectures that enable real-time data processing and streaming.

• Middleware configuration and management: You will configure and manage middleware platforms such as application servers, message brokers, ESBs (Enterprise Service Buses), and API gateways. This involves setting up configurations, monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring high availability.

• Security and compliance: Ensuring the security and compliance of data exchanged between systems is crucial. You will implement authentication mechanisms, encryption techniques, access controls, and other security measures based on established patterns.

• Performance optimization: You will analyze system performance metrics and identify areas for improvement in terms of throughput, latency, scalability, and resource utilization. Leveraging your knowledge of integration platforms, you will optimize configurations to enhance overall system performance.

  What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Proven experience as a middleware architect with expertise in designing and implementing middleware solutions.

• Strong understanding of different middleware platforms such as ESBs ( IBM Websphere) , message brokers (IBM MQ), File transfer technology (Sterling file Gateway), integration middleware (TIBCO Business Works ), API gateways ( APIM), Data stage, or data streaming platforms.

• Knowledge of integration patterns and best practices for efficient communication between systems.

• Experience in performance optimization, scalability, security, and compliance aspects of middleware integration projects.

• Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and ability to troubleshoot complex integration issues.

• Good communication skills for effectively conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.