Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

Location:

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

 

 

Position Title: Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

Office Location: 22 St. Clair Ave East

Hybrid Model: Minimum 3 days in office

Position Overview

Choice Properties is looking for a Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, to join our team! The Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, 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 Director, Engineering & Integration, this role ensures that business solutions are architected in a way that supports organizational integration standards, scalability, and long-term sustainability. You will partner closely with business stakeholders and the IT team to translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that integrate effectively across property management, leasing, development, finance, and corporate platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design and own end-to-end data architecture solutions that align with enterprise integration, engineering, and data governance standards.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake) to support reporting, analytics, and operational data needs.
• Define and implement data architecture patterns including data ingestion, transformation (ETL/ELT), semantic modeling, real-time data streaming, and API-based data services.
• Ensure interoperability and trusted data flows across ERP, property management, leasing, construction, CRM, and enterprise systems.
• Establish and promote best practices for data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), master data management, and metadata management.
• Partner with business and analytics teams to translate reporting and insight requirements into scalable data solutions and architecture roadmaps.
• Identify cross-system data dependencies, quality risks, lineage considerations, and integration impacts, proactively mitigating architectural risks.
• Ensure data solutions adhere to enterprise security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements, including access controls and data protection standards.
• Support acquisitions, system implementations, and transformation initiatives by leading data architecture, migration, and consolidation strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering and integration teams to ensure data pipelines are resilient, automated, observable, and aligned with enterprise integration patterns (API-led, event-driven).
• Contribute to the evolution of enterprise data strategy, architecture governance, platform selection, and continuous improvement of data engineering practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 to 10 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, enterprise systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of experience in a senior or people leadership capacity.
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong experience designing solutions across ERP and enterprise platforms (e.g., JDE, Yardi, MRI, SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, or similar).
• Strong experience with Data platforms such as Microsoft Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and SQL.  
• Experience working in integrated, multi-system environments.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and flexible while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Strong proficiency in analyzing and resolving complex issues by applying experience, judgment, and established precedents to determine effective solutions.
• Ability to work well with others and develop cooperative working relationships in a collaborative team environment, including leading and coaching junior team members.

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 :

 

 

$118,020.00 - $162,277.50 / 118.020,00$ - 162.277,50$ (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.