Principal 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.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience as an Integration Architect or in a similar role.

• Strong understanding of integration and event streaming concepts, methodologies, and best practices.

• Experience with event streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Azure Eventhubs.

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is required.

• Knowledge and hands on experience of how to leverage cloud services for event streaming architectures, such as managed Kafka services or serverless computing is required.

• The ability to integrate the event streaming platform with various data sources and downstream systems is important.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Proactive and action oriented, willing to work with stakeholders to isolate problems and help develop solutions.

• Team player with a willingness to listen, collaborate, and work in a group setting to solve challenging problems.

• Value progress over perfection, using a growth mindset to continuously aim to help grow the business.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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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Weekly Hours: 37.33

What you will do

• Coordinate requests related to Finance applications such as Peoplesoft, Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion planning, ARCS, Concur, Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), and Coupa.
• Support distribution of communication to core business areas of procure to pay (P2P), contract to cash (C2C), acquire to retire (A2R) and record to report (R2R) and manage team Outlook mailbox
• Coordinate with Finance Systems team members to provide reporting to internal and external audit requests.
• Manage JIRA/Service Now dashboard reports to support team meetings
• Data extracts to support internal and external stakeholder’s requirements
• Coordinate with Finance Accounting the submission and execution of Chart of Account requests

What we are looking for

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment 
• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business 
• Outcome focused thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement of our financial systems across our entire business 
• Collaborative team players who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups
• Team players who build and develop relationships that effectively anticipate and respond to disruption, while consistently delivering strong performance 

What you will bring

• Minimum 2 years’ experience with Microsoft Office suite, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple work assignments simultaneously.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and/or Service now would be an asset.
• Experience with JIRA and/or Service now would be an asset.

The GTA Facility in Brampton, ON is FGL’s and Canadian Tire’s most highly automated distribution centres, processing and delivering incoming vendor goods to our large chain of retail stores. This facility has some 16 km of automated conveyors, 3 High speed sortation systems, our automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) using a shuttle system storing product in almost 110,00 locations, to deliver product reliably and efficiently throughout the building. These systems work together through a central computer-controlled system to ensure product is received and delivered to our stores quickly and accurately.

The Maintenance Department is seeking a supervisor (shift supervisor) to lead a skilled team of trades, including (4) Industrial Mechanics and (2) Electricians

 to perform scheduled preventive maintenance and service work to achieve department and productivity key performance indicators. The Supervisor supervises the execution of the maintenance work plan for the assigned shifts and assists in the set up for the oncoming shifts as required. The Supervisor liaises with the Maintenance Planners to ensure all planned work has the resources and material available to complete the plan and works closely with the incoming Maintenance team at shift hand-off to ensure plan compliance and transfer of information regarding breakdowns and other issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead employees in the daily execution of planned (PM) & unplanned (service) work, and project or overhaul work as required

• Work with Operations Managers/Team Leads to respond quickly and effectively to equipment downtime, productivity or safety issues

• Monitor production requirements during shift to meet operational requirements

• Provide direction, leadership and problem-solving guidance to employees to minimize equipment downtime

• Ensure all work orders are completed on a timely, efficient, effective and safe manner

• Meet or exceed shift planned work, including preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance and 5S (housekeeping)

• Ensure all work completed meets or exceeds industry or trade quality standards

• Communicate job status to customers, Planning and other shifts/shift Supervisors

• Distribute work fairly and effectively to team members

• Ensure crew members have sufficient skills to perform assigned work, and recommend training or other methods to increase crew job knowledge and capability

• Identify and implement relevant legislative and other training for team

• Ensure crew follows requirements/regulations of Occupational Health & Safety Act and Canadian Tire standards

• Seek and recommend opportunities to improve equipment operation/efficiency/safety or other recommendations to improve effectiveness of crew

• Provide direction, leadership and problem-solving guidance to employees

• Ensure work order information entered into CMMS (Maximo) is complete and accurate

• Familiar with common maintenance key performance indicators (KPI, e.g., Planned v/Unplanned work, % PM completion, staff utilization, etc.) and leading teams for high performance in these areas

• Strong history of coaching/developing maintenance teams in working with emphasis on safety, productivity, quality, good maintenance practices and innovation

• Administer company & departmental policies and procedures

• Work with Maintenance Manager to resolve team issues as required

•  Perform quarterly employee 1:1 check-in reviews and yearly performance appraisals

• Lead coaching and disciplinary sessions as appropriate

• Assist in supervisor coverage where possible during vacations and other absences

QUALIFICATIONS

Post-Secondary Degree or Diploma required (Engineering or Technical Discipline) or Skilled Trade License (442A Industrial Electrician, #433A Industrial Millwright Mechanic

• 5+ years supervisory experience in the maintenance field or demonstrable equivalent experience

• Demonstrable experience working with O.Reg 851 (Industrial Establishments)

• Demonstrated knowledge of maintenance planning techniques, work-order flow, proactive maintenance techniques

• Experience with computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)

Assets

• Experience with automated storage retrieval systems (ASRS), automated conveyor/sorter systems

• Maintenance Planning experience

• Experience with Maximo

• Proven background in breakdown maintenance troubleshooting

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