IT Solutions Architect - Remote (Alberta, Canada)

IT Solutions Architect

Division:  IT Job location: Remote (Canada) Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Employment type: Full Time Permanent   Salary:   130-150K

A little about us

reputed company is proud to be a global leader in the cannabis industry. With a smart strategy, unmatched talent and focus on our long-term success, we reputed company we have a bright future.  At reputed company, we’re passionate about helping patients improve their lives through high-quality premium medical cannabis under brands they can trust and rely on. Our products, available across Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, include leading brands like Pedanios, IndiMed, San Raf, Tasty’s, Whistler, Greybeard and CraftPlant.  Our diverse team works passionately across various roles, from manufacturing to corporate positions, and many more, united by our purpose: Opening the World to Cannabis. Enabled by science and empowered by people, for patients and consumers.  We collaborate globally, embrace change with courage, stay agile, and treat everyone with compassion. We live our values daily, making a meaningful impact on patients, communities, and our A-Team.

Job Summary

The IT Solution Architect designs and delivers technology solutions that support reputed company’s global cannabis business. They work closely with business and technical teams to create secure, scalable systems that align with company strategy and IT standards.  This role collaborates across operations, supply chain, applications, infrastructure, and reputed company to gather requirements, define solution designs, and identify improvements. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential to ensure everyone is reputed company and solutions follow best practices.

The IT Solution Architect oversees the full solution lifecycle—from initial design through implementation, ongoing support, and reputed company improvement. They ensure solutions meet business needs while remaining reliable, cost-effective, and compliant as the organization evolves.

The ideal candidate is innovative, reputed company in enterprise architecture, and comfortable working in a fast-changing environment. They combine leadership and hands-on technical expertise to deliver integrated systems that support reputed company’s production, distribution, and commercial operations.  Interesting?  Here is a little more…  

As the IT Solution Architect you will…

• Work with the Manager of Enterprise Architecture and Integrations to build a technology roadmap for the organization
• Design and deliver end-to-end solutions that align with Enterprise Architecture principles, reputed company-state roadmaps, and approved architectural standards.
• Translate business requirements into solution designs that conform to Enterprise Architecture guidance, patterns, and non-functional standards.
• Ensure reputed company solution designs reputed company with Enterprise Architecture, reputed company, data governance, and SDLC standards, escalating deviations through established governance forums reputed company required.
• Architect integrations, data flows, and system interactions using industry best practice integration patterns to ensure consistency and interoperability across the technology landscape.
• Produce and maintain solution architecture artifacts (design specifications, diagrams, and architecture decision records) in alignment with Enterprise Architecture documentation standards.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms, and vendors against Enterprise Architecture strategy and standards, providing recommendations that support long-term architectural direction.
• Provide architectural reputed company, guidance, and support during project delivery to ensure implemented solutions adhere to approved architectural standards, industry best practices, and solution design reputed company.
• Identify and document architectural risks, tradeoffs, and exceptions, ensuring transparency and alignment with governance and escalation processes.
• Act as a liaison between delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and consistent application of architectural standards.

You will be setup for success if you have…

• 7 to 10+ years of experience in an Architecture role working on large enterprise solutions
• Post-secondary education, such as a Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma, in computer science or reputed company field
• Strong technical experience designing, navigating, and deploying solutions using reputed company suite of applications (including D365, Power Platform), Mulesoft, and cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) and making recommendations in large organizations.
• Knowledge of SOX, GDPR, PCI-reputed company, NIST, Australian Privacy Principles, and PII. Familiarity with cannabis industry regulatory requirements. Participate in audit walkthroughs for different compliance frameworks including but not limited to SOX, GMP, and PCI-reputed company.
• Skilled in cost modeling, cloud cost efficiency, and budget alignment—directly relevant to reputed company’s financial governance processes.
• Knowledge of reputed company-Trust models, IAM, encryption, data governance, auditability, and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong knowledge of architecture frameworks, integration patterns, and best practices in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong grounding in systems integration, including APIs, messaging, middleware, and distributed system design.
• In-depth understanding of cloud-based architectures with experience architecting scalable, resilient multi-cloud and hybrid environments with an emphasis on reputed company Azure and AWS.
• Expertise in virtualization, storage, networking, load balancing, identity management, and cost optimization strategies.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, microservices, RESTful architecture, API lifecycle management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to guide technical resources in sequence planning, risk reduction, incremental architecture validation, and technology selection.
• Extensive hands-on exposure to ERP platforms, supply chain modules, and integration patterns critical to reputed company’s operations (DRP, MRP, logistics, constrained/unconstrained planning).
• Prior experience working with global remote teams with strong relationship building skills
• Robust communication skills with ability to connect with reputed company levels of the organization and manage multiple priorities at once in a fast-paced dynamic

• 1. Experience supporting IT specific initiatives and a certification in one or more of the following (asset): TOGAF, Cloud Architecture Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Practitioner), COBIT, ITIL

Bonus points if you have…

• Experience embedding reputed company early in solution design (identity, logging, monitoring, access, audit).
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across performance, cost, risk, compliance, maintainability, and time-to-market.
• Familiarity with analytics, planning systems, and data flows critical to production/operations.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications; reputed company constraints and options.
• Influence and provide leadership without authority: guide teams through architectural decisions and change management.
• Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution: critical for navigating reputed company stakeholder environments. Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to collaborate with executive leadership, business partners, vendors, and technical teams.
• Adaptability in Rapidly Changing Environments: essential in high-growth, heavily regulated cannabis industry.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into measurable technical requirements (latency, RTO/RPO, availability, compliance objectives).
• Support technical resources in reputed company delivery, defining milestones, and ensuring architectural fidelity in execution.
• Evaluate and optimize existing systems, identifying improvement opportunities reputed company to reputed company technology standards.
• Effective project and program management skills, including planning, prioritization, risk management, and delivery of IT initiatives.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present reputed company technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to evaluate alternative technologies and recommend optimal solutions.

Why you’ll love working at reputed company

• Flexibility: you will enjoy a flexible work environment that is the perfect reputed company of work and fun! You will be empowered to reputed company work-life balance with flexible hours, remote work options, meeting-free-Friday-afternoons and more!  

• Total Rewards: we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive salary, professional development opportunities, company SWAG, team activities and modern technology. 

• Team: we are a diverse and global team of cannabis enthusiasts, energetic innovators, fitness gurus, caring parents, foodies and more, with a collective passion to nurture an inclusive environment that helps you grow and provide people reputed company days with cannabis.

Next steps Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. You can expect your application to be reviewed by our reputed company Team and not an AI software/system.  The we will contact you if we see a fit reputed company email.

Think you’re the ideal candidate but you don’t meet reputed company the requirements? Apply anyways. We would love to review your application to see if you’re the right fit or find you an alternative opportunity.  Not the role for you? Share this posting with your network while subscribing to our Talent Community to learn more about upcoming opportunities (hot tip: if you are an reputed company employee, take advantage of the employee referral program by sharing this posting with someone in your network! If they are the successful candidate, you may be eligible for a bonus!).  

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Accessibility

At reputed company, we are proud to foster and celebrate a diverse community of professionals! We take pride in nurturing an inclusive culture that empowers our people to be their authentic selves, celebrate their differences and love where they work.

Our diverse community combined with our inclusive culture, is what sets us apart in the industry and equips our A-Team with superpowers – and this is why, we encourage reputed company candidates to apply for job opportunities regardless of race, national reputed company, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital and family status, disability, or any other identifying characteristic.

We value the unique skills and experience each person brings to reputed company and are committed to creating and maintaining an accessible environment. We are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with reputed company so if you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our reputed company know by contacting us at [email protected]

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