Information Technology - Enterprise Principal Architect Corporate Systems

THE BUSINESS

We are Everyday Luxury™.

It's what we do and how we do it — together.

It's working alongside world-class talent in pursuit of world-class results.

It's maximizing your potential in a high-performance culture.

It's knowing that wherever you are, you belong.

It's elevating your world — and the world of those who love and will love Aritzia.

It's You. And an endless runway of opportunity.

With a Global Support Campus in Vancouver and additional Support Office hubs in major cities across North America — including Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle — our workplace network is strategically designed to support our People and serve our Clients a frictionless experience. So, you can do what you do best — with us.

THE TEAM

The mission of the Global Architecture Department is to set global architecture strategies and standards to enable secure, scalable, and innovative technology solutions that accelerate our business goals.

THE OPPORTUNITY

As a leader in the Global Architecture Department, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality enterprise architecture services that enable secure, scalable and innovative capabilities, systems and applications at Aritzia. You will play a pivotal role in shaping Aritzia’s technology landscape across integral Support division areas like Finance, Legal, People & Culture, as well as enterprise-wide ERP capabilities – partnering directly with domain Technology leaders to assess our current corporate systems landscape, identify capability gaps against Aritzia’s growth ambitions, and define future-state architectures that are scalable and built for the next phase of business growth. You will bring deep knowledge in ERP-centric environments and navigate our vertically integrated retail business where corporate systems touch everything from merchandise financial planning to workforce optimization to cross-border compliance. You will own the multi-year architecture vision for corporate systems and elevate the architectural maturity of our organization – setting the standard for how we evaluate, adopt, and govern enterprise platforms at Aritzia. With your valuable contribution to the business in this role, the opportunities are endless — from a rewarding career in Global Architecture to continued growth with Aritzia.

THE ROLE

As the Principal Enterprise Architect, you will:

• Translate corporate strategy and business transformation goals into actionable architecture blueprints that balance ambition with operational readiness and ensure architecture investments deliver tangible business value.
• Lead the multi-year architecture strategy and roadmap for Aritzia’s corporate systems domain — spanning Finance & Legal Tech, People & Culture Tech, SAP ERP, and cross-functional enterprise platforms — ensuring alignment with Aritzia’s corporate objectives and investment priorities with clear, sequenced outcomes.
• Drive modernization across the Finance, Legal, and People & Culture Technology domains, ensuring flexibility and future-readiness.
• Lead the architecture vision for modernizing SAP ECC, including the strategic migration to S/4HANA.
• Architect robust, scalable integration patterns between SAP, HR, Finance, Legal, and enterprise data platforms—defining a cohesive integration strategy that spans API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, middleware (EDI, iDoc), and cloud integration platforms (SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft, or equivalent).
• Evaluate and rationalize enterprise SaaS platforms to reduce vendor sprawl, improve capability alignment, and optimize total cost of ownership.
• Establish and maintain organizational architectural standards to ensure new solutions are secure and scalable
• Mentor enterprise architects and senior engineers across the organization, elevating architectural thinking, technical quality, and the discipline of translating business problems into well-reasoned technology strategies.

THE QUALIFICATIONS

The Principal Enterprise Architect has proven skills, certifications, education, and/or experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent. Advanced degree is an asset.
• SAP certification in one or more relevant modules (FI/CO, MM, SD, HCM) preferred.
• TOGAF, SABSA, or equivalent enterprise architecture framework certification is an asset.
• Experience with retail or vertically integrated busine