Solution Architect - Products:
On behalf of our Retail client, Procom is searching for a Solution Architect - Products for a 6-month contract role. This position is a hybrid position with 4 days onsite at our client’s Toronto or Oakville office.
Solution Architect - Products - Job Description:
The Solution Architect - Products will design and govern end-to-end solutions across the retail value chain, including Supply Chain & Logistics, Store Technology, Merchandising, and eCommerce/Digital. This role involves translating business outcomes into secure, scalable, and resilient architectures, partnering closely with product, engineering, data, security, and operations teams.
Solution Architect - Products - Responsibilities:
- Lead solution architecture for initiatives across supply chain, stores, merchandising, and digital platforms.
- Produce and maintain architecture deliverables: high-level designs, integration flows, sequence diagrams, data flows, NFRs, deployment views, and architecture decision records (ADRs).
- Define target-state architectures and transition roadmaps aligned to enterprise standards.
- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements: availability, performance, resiliency, scalability, security, and operability.
- Architect solutions across domains including supply chain, store technology, merchandising, and digital & omnichannel.
- Design cloud-first solutions using Azure and/or Google Cloud architecture best practices.
- Architect enterprise integration using APIs, event-driven patterns, streaming, and batch.
- Participate in and lead architecture reviews; provide guardrails without slowing delivery.
Solution Architect - Products - Mandatory Skills:
- 7+ years in technology with 3+ years in solution or technical architecture roles.
- Experience delivering solutions across retail platforms (supply chain, stores, merchandising, and/or digital).
- Strong experience with API-led and event-driven integration architectures.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP) including networking, identity, and deployment models.
- Strong understanding of security, resiliency, performance, and observability.
Solution Architect - Products – Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Data platform and analytics architecture experience (lakehouse/warehouse patterns, streaming).
- AI/ML or GenAI architecture exposure, including deployment, monitoring, and responsible AI considerations.
- Store edge computing or offline-first architecture experience.
- Experience with retail enterprise platforms such as OMS, POS, WMS/TMS, ERP, PIM, pricing or promotion engines.
Solution Architect - Products – Assignment Length:
This is a 6-month contract position.
Solution Architect - Products - Start Date:
ASAP.
Solution Architect - Products - Assignment Location:
Toronto or Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Hybrid role with 4 days onsite per week.
