Technology - Enterprise Data Architect

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 theData Governance department is toenable the governance of data across the enterprise.   

THE OPPORTUNITY 

Aritzia isgrowing andourData 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 Aritzia’s data architecture.As the Enterprise Data Architect, you will lead the strategic standards definition, and governance of Aritzia’s 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 inestablishing 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 careerindatato continued growth with Aritzia.  

THE ROLE 

As theEnterprise Data Architect, you will: 

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

• Establishenterprisedatastandards for canonical models, sharedvocabularies, reference data mappings, data flow diagrams, and business glossaries. 

• Oversee the central repository ofdatamodel system architectures,semantic artifacts, reference patterns, and reusable assets;driving accountability across authoring teams (Solution Delivery,Data & Analytics, GlobalArchitecture) tomaintain compliant, accessible, and up-to-date documentation. 

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

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

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

• Enabletechnical &businessteamsbypromotingdata literacy across the enterprise throughteaching,coaching, and leadingtailoredCommunities of Practice (COP) sessions. 

THE QUALIFICATIONS 

TheEnterprise Data Architect has: 

• Proven skills, education, and/or applicable certifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or equivalent experience;Master's preferred.  

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

• Deepexpertise 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 asBigQuery, Snowflake,Databricks,  Redshift, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent. 

• Strong experience architectinglakehouse, 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 experienceestablishing 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 asdbt, 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 Aritzia's 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$100,000 - $300,000per 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 elevatedperks and experiences — we provide it all. 

THE PERKS 

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

• Product Discount —Maybe you’ve heard of our famous product discount? Or our exclusive private shopping events? You have now. 

• Baby Leave Program — We 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 cafeis a private oasis where employees can enjoy curated, subsidized Everyday Luxury dining. 

• The SET —Our in-office fitness studio and gym withstate-of-the-art equipment, custom-createdclasses 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, whetherthey’re physical, mental,social or financial. 

• Aspirational Workplace —Our offices are specially designed to be spaces of creativity,productivity and inspiration.They’re also dog friendly. Woof. 

ARITZIA

Aritzia is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Our goal is to be inclusive, diverse, and representative of the communities where we work while creating an environment where every person can enjoy a successful career. This commitment applies to all candidates and employees regardless of race, ethnicity, citizenship, creed, place of origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, and any other protected characteristic. 

Requests for accommodation due to a disability or any other protected characteristic can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People & Culture Team.

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