Solutions Architect, Loyalty Job Listing at Couche-Tard in Laval, QC (Job ID R433865)

Description

JOIN OUR TEAM

You may have already stopped for coffee, refueling your car, or eating something on the go. Then you know what Couche-Tard is. Our mission at Couche-Tard is to make our customers' lives a little easier every day. We have grown into a successful global company with over 16,000 stores in 29 countries, serving over 6 million customers every day. In total, more than 150,000 people work in our stores and help desks.

Department: IT

Location: Laval, QC (4204 boulevard Industriel, H7L 0E3)

Hybrid mode: 3 days at the office and 2 days remotely

Type of employment:  Permanent, Full Time (40 hours)

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THE ROLE

The Solution Architect, Loyalty proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions under the Enterprise Architecture scope. Solutions include, but are not limited to, loyalty engines, offer management systems, discount engines, promotional tools, communication platforms, content management systems, digital asset management systems, mobile apps, websites, personalization engines, recommendation engines, customer data platforms, master data platforms, in-store digital screens, ERP, HRMS, and POS.

The architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Interpret Business Needs

• Translates customer journeys and business requirements into technical requirements into business capability maps, value-stream maps, architectural blueprint and technology enablers to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.

• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

Assess Technology

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.

• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.

• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.

• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.

• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.

• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.

Apply Technology

• Leads evaluation, design, maintenance, and evolution of the solution architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.

• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, driving application architects and other technical resources that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.

• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture.

• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.

• Works closely with business and technology leaders as well as project and product managers to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.

• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

We want you to join our team! Here's what we're looking for:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including solution, application, technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.

Knowledge and skills:

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments

• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models

• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt

• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.

• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps

• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment

• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts

Language skills

• Bilingualism required (French and English), both written and spoken, as the person will be called upon to serve English-speaking regions.

WHY WORK WITH US

Our job openings in stores and offices allow you to grow quickly within a global company, while benefiting from a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are in your journey, we have a place for you.  Here are some of the attractive benefits we offer:

• Alimentation Couche-Tard has been named one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2023;

• A full range of benefits (medical, dental, etc.);

• Possibility to join a pension plan with employer contributions or a share purchase plan;

• Discounts for employees in stores and at many of our partners;

• Paid leave including vacation, sick and personal leave;

• Scholarship program available to the employee and the employee's children;

• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and grow professionally in a growing company;         

• Work in hybrid mode.

INTERESTED? You are only a few clicks away from joining an exceptional company! Those interested in this position should apply directly on our career site: https://carrieres.couche-tard.com

Couche-Tard attaches great importance to diversity in the workplace and subscribes to the principle of employment equity by encouraging applications from designated groups, namely: women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

We thank all candidates for their interest in this position; only selected individuals will be contacted.

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Couche-Tard / Circle K valorise la diversité et de l'inclusion et vise à créer un milieu de travail sain, accessible et gratifiant qui met en valeur la contribution unique de nos employés au succès de notre entreprise. En tant qu'employeur qui s'engage à respecter l'équité en matière d'emploi, nous encourageons les candidatures les plus diverses afin de pouvoir nous doter d'un effectif varié et représentatif de nos clients et des communautés que l'on sert. Des accommodements sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection.