Enterprise Architect Full Time

At Best Buy Canada, our architects guide technology professionals to solve customer problems in line with our strategic plan. As a visionary enterprise architect at Best Buy Canada, you will shape strategic technology solutions that drive marketing success and elevate the customer journey, ensuring sustained growth and stability across our platforms. Your responsibilities will include Retail Relationships, Marketing, Pricing, C-MDM, CDP, Customer Journey, Personalization, Segmentation, Membership, Loyalty, and Digital communications.

We practice a remote first working model, leveraging in person interactions at our head office, in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for strategic, collaborative, and social purposes.

Join our collaborative team as an enterprise architect.                          

What you’ll do as an enterprise architect:

• Provide leadership while collaborating with technology teams, business teams and technical leaders in system architecture, design principles, reference architecture, integration patterns and selection of technology

• Deliver strategic and forward-looking enterprise IT application roadmaps for customer journey and corporate experience that are focused on business and technology capabilities.

• Ensure solution design is aligned with the target domain architecture leveraging cloud, people, ownership, automation and data pillars

• Partner with technology teams to design integrated IT solutions, including the build vs. buy decision, that is in line with the technology strategy and adhere to established IT technology standards (infrastructure, application, integration, data, and security)

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Digital Experience leaders to drive transformative change to meet the strategic outcomes

• Provide mentorship and guidance to technical leads, developers, and other stakeholders on architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards

• Provide architecture consulting to delivery teams (design, build, test, cutover) for business and technical projects.

• Leverage event-driven architecture enabling integrations to SaaS and on-premise solutions using Azure Cloud, Kubernetes (RedHat OpenShift), Java, Node.js, React, AMQP-based messaging and both relational and NoSQL databases.

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise architecture experience

• Experience with customer journey orchestration tools for personalized customer experiences

• Deep understanding of various marketing technologies, including marketing automation platforms, advertising tech, CDP, and analytics tools; and experience with enterprise marketing tech platforms (such as Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Google Marketing tools, Twilio, etc.)

• Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage with multiple people across the organization

• Strong understanding of technical application development with hands-on experience of SQL databases, Java & microservices architecture.

• Have an understanding of retail and ecommerce domains

• Experience working within an agile enterprise architecture environment

Why you’ll love it here:

• Employee discounts on awesome tech from day one

• Flexible health benefits and wellness program

• TFSA and RRSP programs

• 100% matched company pension plan

• Training programs to build new and transferable skills

About Best Buy

As Canada’s destination for the coolest tech, Best Buy offers one of the best work environments in the country! Our culture is one of inclusivity and belonging and provides employees an environment where they can bring their whole selves to work.

We believe in a fair and inclusive hiring process and encourage you to apply even if you may not meet all the requirements.

Join our amazing team!

We are looking for people just like you.

Annualized base pay range

$129,000.00 – $142,000.00

This role has bonus components in addition to annualized base pay.

Starting pay offered will consider skills and experience. Your pay can grow as you build your career with us.

Suite 102 – 425 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L3

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