Director, Engineering & Integration

Location:

22 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2S5

 

 

Position Title: Director, Engineering & Integration

Office Location: 22 St. Clair Ave East

Hybrid Model: Minimum 4 days in office

Position Overview

Choice Properties is looking for a Director, Engineering and Integration to join our team! The Director must be a self-starter, a strategic thinker, and have a great service-oriented attitude that will continue to encourage constant improvement of services and performance. Reporting to the VP, Technology, this role will be responsible for directing the architectural design, implementation, and management of complex IT systems, ensuring disparate applications and infrastructure components work together cohesively. This role is critical in bridging the gap between legacy technologies and modern, often cloud-based, solutions to drive business efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and modernize the enterprise integration strategy and target-state architecture, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across core platforms (ERP, CRM, CPM, data, and property systems).
• Drive the elimination of legacy point-to-point integrations, replacing them with standardized, API-led, event-driven, and cloud-native integration patterns that improve scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
• Lead the architectural design and execution of the enterprise data platform migration from Microsoft Synapse to Snowflake, ensuring minimal disruption, optimized performance, and alignment with long-term analytics strategy.
• Define and enforce integration standards, governance frameworks, and architectural best practices, establishing clear design review processes and lifecycle management controls.
• Manage end-to-end accountability for integration and engineering delivery and operations, overseeing design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support to ensure high availability and service excellence.
• Embed cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and business continuity requirements into all integration and data solutions, applying security-by-design principles and internal control standards.
• Establish and monitor KPIs, SLAs, and observability frameworks to proactively manage performance, incidents, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with business leaders to translate strategic priorities into scalable technical solutions that enable automation, improve data accuracy, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Lead integration efforts supporting enterprise initiatives, including system implementations, acquisitions, dispositions, and digital transformation programs, ensuring seamless system connectivity and data migration.
• Oversee integration platforms, cloud services, and vendor relationships, including budget management and cost optimization.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in integration, engineering, or enterprise systems roles.
• Minimum 7 years of supervisory experience, demonstrating successful management of a large team utilizing motivation, mentorship, and coaching skills.
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong experience integrating ERP and property/asset management systems (e.g., JDE, Yardi, SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar).
• Strong experience with Data platforms such as Microsoft Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and SQL.
• Hands-on knowledge of integration platforms, APIs, middleware, and cloud technologies.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-system enterprise environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong facilitation skills and a proven ability to partner with business stakeholders across all functional areas.
• Ability to work well with others and develop cooperative working relationships in a collaborative team environment, including leading and coaching senior and junior team members.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills, and ability to deal with multiple changing priorities.

About Choice Properties

Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust is an owner, manager and developer of well-located retail and commercial real estate across Canada. Choice Properties' portfolio spans approximately 65 million square feet of gross leasable area and consists of over 700 properties primarily focused on supermarket-anchored shopping centers.

Choice Properties’ strategy is to create value by enhancing and optimizing its portfolio through high quality transactions, strategic development and active property management. We mainly focus on necessity-based retail, and high-quality industrial and mixed-use assets. In particular, we have a strategic relationship with Loblaw, our largest tenant, that provides us with access to high quality investment opportunities.

Our established operating platform with a proven track record of success also provides us with access to a transformational development pipeline that we believe supports superior long-term value creation and growth. A commitment to continuous learning and development is a strong part of our culture.

Additional Information:

Choice Properties REIT recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and employees with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Number of Openings:

1

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Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

 

 

$147,840.00 - $197,840.00 / 147.840,00$ - 197.840,00$ (per year / par an)

 

 

A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for a newly created position. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste nouvellement créé. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.