Technology Enterprise Data Architect

THE BUSINESS

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THE TEAM

The mission of the Data Governance department is to enable the governance of data across the enterprise.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Aritzia is growing and our Data Governance team is growing with it. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the team responsible for defining and shaping the future of Aritzias data architecture. As the Enterprise Data Architect you will lead the strategic standards definition and governance of Aritzias enterprise data architecture. Reporting directly to the Director of Data Governance (with a matrix link to Global Architecture) you will not be building pipelines in isolation; instead you will define the architectural guardrails canonical models and semantic standards that empower our engineering squads analytics teams and business domains to build trusted scalable data capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in establishing architecture reviews driving AI-ready data literacy and ensuring enterprise-wide data interoperability across our modern tech stack. With your valuable contribution to the business in this role the opportunities are endless from a rewarding career in data to continued growth with Aritzia.

THE ROLE

As the Enterprise Data Architect you will:

• Translate business priorities into enterprise data architecture strategies multi-year target-state data roadmaps and federated data product standards.

• Establish enterprise data standards for canonical models shared vocabularies reference data mappings data flow diagrams and business glossaries.

• Oversee the central repository of data model system architectures semantic artifacts reference patterns and reusable assets; driving accountability across authoring teams (Solution Delivery Data & Analytics Global Architecture) to maintain compliant accessible and up-to-date documentation.

• Represent Data Governance in formal Architecture Review Boards to evaluate proposed solutions for data target-state alignment.

• Drive architecture governance by leading standards development architectural reviews reusable patterns and best practices that improve consistency quality security and scalability in partnership with Analytics Engineering Excellence. Global Architecture and Engineering Enablement teams.

• Assess and mature enterprise data and governance capabilities through benchmarking capability assessments and target-state roadmaps.

• Enable technical & business teams by promoting data literacy across the enterprise through teaching coaching and leading tailored Communities of Practice (COP) sessions.

THE QUALIFICATIONS

The Enterprise Data Architect has:

• Proven skills education and/or applicable certifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Data Management or equivalent experience; Masters preferred.

• 15 years of progressive experience across enterprise data analytics data platforms enterprise architecture or data engineering leadership including significant experience in principal or lead architecture roles.

• Deep expertise defining enterprise data strategy target-state architecture standards reference architectures and multi-year roadmaps across complex multi-domain environments.

• Hands-on architecture experience with modern public cloud data ecosystems across GCP AWS or Azure and platforms such as BigQuery Snowflake Databricks Redshift Azure Synapse Microsoft Fabric or equivalent.

• Strong experience architecting lakehouse warehouse streaming orchestration semantic BI and ML/AI consumption patterns with a focus on scalability reliability governance observability and cost-to-serve.

• Strong information architecture and data modeling experience across conceptual logical and physical layers including canonical models semantic layers metrics layers dimensional modeling data contracts and domain data products.

• Proven experience establishing enterprise data governance capabilities including ownership stewardship metadata glossary catalog lineage quality classification privacy retention and lifecycle management.

• Experience building or enabling federated data product operating models Data Mesh principles domain ownership reusable data templates automation standards and platform paved roads.

• Experience with data catalog governance lineage MDM observability and quality tools such as dbt Collibra Alation Informatica Denodo cloud-native governance services or equivalent.

• Knowledge in data integration and engineering patterns including batch streaming CDC APIs event-driven architecture Kafka or cloud-native messaging pipeline orchestration and ELT/ETL.

• Experience enabling AI-ready data foundations for governed reporting analytics machine learning GenAI semantic search knowledge representation and emerging agentic use cases.

• Experience partnering across Digital Retail Product Supply Chain Corporate Finance Customer ESG or similarly complex consumer domains strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to influence VP and C-level stakeholders through clarity of technical thought balanced trade-off analysis business-aligned recommendations and executive-ready storytelling.

• A commitment to learn and apply Aritzias Business and People Leadership principles

THE COMPENSATION

At Aritzia we provide market-leading compensation packages designed to reward impact through our pay-for-performance philosophy.

The range for roles at this level is $100000 - $300000 per year. Total compensation may include base bonus and/or equity depending on the role which has the potential to be greater than this range.

With comprehensive benefits aspirational workspaces and elevated perks and experiences we provide it all.

THE PERKS

Some of the industry-leading benefits you will receive working at Aritzia:

• Product Discount Maybe youve heard of our famous product discount Or our exclusive private shopping events You have now.

• Baby LeaveProgramWe provide up to 16 weeks of paid time to support you and your growing family.

• A-OK Commissary & Cafe Everyday Luxury dining exclusive to Aritzia. Our in-house bistro and cafe is a private oasis where employees can enjoy curated subsidized Everyday Luxury dining.

• The SET Our in-office fitness studio and gym with state-of-the-art equipment custom-created classes and optional personal training. Open 7 days a week it works out well.

• Aritzia Virtual Wellness Because your health happiness and safety matter we provide 24/7 resources to support you in your wellbeing goals whether theyre physical mental social or financial.

• Aspirational Workplace Our offices are specially designed to be spaces of creativity productivity and inspiration. Theyre also dog friendly. Woof.