Job Description

Location: Hybrid Toronto, Canada

At One Door, we transform how retailers deliver their instore strategies. As the leading provider of SaaSbased visual merchandising solutions, we empower global brands to plan, execute, and analyze instore experiences through an intelligent, datadriven platform.

Why Join One Door?

• Be a strategic leader influencing the architectural vision of an industryleading B2B SaaS platform.
• Work across a diverse, modern tech stack while maintaining a broad, platformfirst perspective.
• Join a collaborative, hybridfriendly organization that values clarity, innovation, and execution.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and meaningful opportunities for growth and impact.

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect, you will define, document, and communicate the highlevel solution architecture across One Doors platform domains. You will set the foundational architecture direction, define interaction and integration standards, and ensure alignment across distributed product and engineering teams. This role is central to ensuring all platform capabilitiesacross fullstack application architecture, lowcode/nocode platforms, and data & insights systemsare cohesive, secure, scalable, and aligned to our multitenant SaaS strategy. You will champion DevOpsaware architecture, ensuring systems are designed for observability, resilience, automation, and cloudnative scalability.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Strategy & Leadership: Define and evolve the target solution architecture for key areas of the One Door platform, including insights, app experiences, and lowcode environments.
• Use formal modeling methods such as UML, data modeling techniques, and structured design approaches to communicate architecture clearly and consistently.

• CrossSolution Integration Standards: Establish and promote patterns for how platform components interact, including servicetoservice communication, shared identity models, and data exchange protocols.
• Define consistent strategies for multitenant management, authentication/authorization, and event/data propagation.
• Set architectural guardrails that ensure modularity, interoperability, and platform resilience.

• DevOps & CloudNative Alignment: Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural decisions support CI/CD automation, containerization, deployment scalability, and cloudnative operation.
• Advocate for architectural designs that consider monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated recovery as firstclass concerns.
• Align solution blueprints with cloud architecture principles on Azure or AWS, focusing on costefficiency, reliability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to platform readiness for infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployment automation pipelines.

• Communication & Governance: Serve as a central voice in communicating architecture direction to stakeholders across engineering, product, UX, and executive teams.
• Lead architecture reviews, contribute to solution evaluation processes, and arbitrate alignment across teams.
• Maintain and evolve platformwide architectural documentation, standards repositories, and best practices.

• Platform Scalability & Extensibility: Promote platformlevel thinking to ensure extensibility across customers, scalability with growth, and alignment with our productized SaaS vision.
• Address crosscutting concerns including performance, observability, maintainability, and data consistency from an architectural perspective.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, including 3+ years in B2B SaaS platform environments.
• Proven ability to define highlevel architecture strategies across diverse technologies (e.g., React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Mendix, Fabric/Power BI).
• Skilled in modeling system interactions, component relationships, data flows, and user interaction patterns using UML data modeling, and structured design techniques.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and how architecture supports scalable deployment, automation, and observability in a cloudnative SaaS context.
• Deep knowledge of multitenancy, identity federation, API integration, and secure data sharing within platform environments.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence and align crossfunctional teams without direct authority.
• Strong documentation and presentation skillsable to articulate complex systems to both technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in retail technology, visual merchandising, or execution platforms.
• Familiarity with data analytics infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI).
• Experience with Mendix lowcode platform governance and architecture is a plus.
• Exposure to eventdriven architecture, message queues, or microservices orchestration.

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