Partners with stakeholders to develop solutions aligned with IT and business strategies, leveraging broad omni-channel retail technology experience to advance business goals and ensure cost efficiency
The Senior Architect advises business and IT on architectural options, explaining implications and identifying risks related to component or application implementation. This role designs and implements solutions that integrate various processes and application systems, ensuring alignment with key functional and non-functional requirements. Collaboration with enterprise architects and software engineers will be necessary to translate business capabilities into a conceptual architecture.
The Senior Architect engages in business, technology, and architecture planning sessions, anticipating future changes and strategies. By evaluating business and application architecture, this role ensures flexibility for incremental development, maintenance, and future enhancements. The position provides expert input on significant business process es or capability-altering projects, understanding market positioning and solution value.
Responsible for designing solutions and overseeing their implementation, the Senior Architect works with product owners, project teams, solution delivery leads, and business teams to understand business strategies. This role facilitates solution design review meetings with stakeholders, ensuring solutions support business goals and evaluating budget impacts based on total cost of ownership analyses.
The Senior Architect may use industry research to enhance the technology environment by comparing internal processes with industry best practices and influencing future industry solutions to fit internal needs. This role also builds and leverages internal and external partnerships to achieve business goals, fostering a customer-focused environment and supporting continuous learning.
Responsible for the creation and presentation of architecture design documents and patterns that incorporate business context, current state system context, future state, security requirements, networking, and disaster recovery
Qualifications
MUST HAVE
• 7+ years of progressive IT experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a solution or enterprise architecture role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven hands-on background in application development or systems integration, with demonstrated experience designing end-to-end solutions in cloud-native or hybrid environments.
• Practical experience designing or integrating AI/ML solutions within enterprise architecture contexts
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into architecture artifacts, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences
PREFERRED
• Experience in omni-channel retail technology domains, including supply chain, logistics, or merchandising
• Architecture governance experience in a large enterprise setting
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization
• Architecture-level cloud certification in Azure or GCP
NICE TO HAVE
• Active use of AI-powered tools to improve architectural productivity
Leadership Expectations:
Respect the Individual:
Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
Acts with Integrity:
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Serve our Customers:
Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.
Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
Strive for Excellence:
Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.
The pay range for this position is $91,900.00 - $126,390.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.
L’échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 91,900.00 à 126,390.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l’expérience pertinente.
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Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Age - 16 or older
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.
Primary Location…
1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
