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Technical Lead, Enterprise Integration (EI)
Location: Brampton, ON
The Loblaw Enterprise Integration (EI) landscape is entering its most significant transformation period.
With the introduction of a new operating model, large-scale cloud migrations, and the onboarding of new enterprise data flows, this role operates as a technical platform leadership function responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of distributed integration systems at scale.
You will lead the stability and architecture of Loblaw’s integration backbone, governing 1,000+ enterprise data flows across Stores, Pharmacy, Supply Chain, SAP, Digital, and core data platforms.
This role requires deep ownership of integration patterns, system dependencies, and failure modes, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance across mission-critical systems.
Why This Role Matters:
Enterprise Integration is the invisible backbone of the organization. This role is critical to ensuring that transformation across cloud, data, and other critical platforms is delivered without compromising stability, performance, or business continuity.
What You’ll Impact
Reliability and performance of 1,000+ enterprise integrations
Stability of systems supporting 1,500+ stores, pharmacies and enterprise platforms
Success of Loblaw’s cloud, data, and enterprise transformation programs
What You’ll Do
Platform Ownership & Stability
Own and stabilize Enterprise Integration platforms, including:
IBM MQ, MQFTE, ACE/IIB, Cleo (MFT/EDI), Apigee (API gateway), Airflow (Cloud Composer), and Google Cloud data platforms
Lead cutover, parallel run, and rollback strategies during platform migrations, ensuring seamless transition and stability across legacy and target environments.
Architecture & Modern Integration Patterns
Define and enforce enterprise integration standards and design patterns across messaging, APIs, file-based, and event-driven architectures.
Messaging backbone (MQ → Pub/Sub evolution)
API layer (Apigee)
File & B2B integration (Cleo, Cloud Storage)
Orchestration (Airflow / Cloud Composer)
Data pipelines (Big Query, Dataflow)
Enable and standardize modern integration patterns:
Event-driven architecture (Pub/Sub, event-based flows)
API-led integrations
File-based and EDI workflows
Hybrid cloud integration models
Operations & Reliability Engineering
Design and implement resilient integration patterns, including retry strategies, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and failure isolation to ensure system stability under high-volume, distributed workloads.
Lead observability initiatives using Grafana and flow-level monitoring across distributed systems
Enterprise Transformation Leadership
Own end-to-end operational readiness and stabilization for major modernization initiatives
Act as the single technical authority across EI platforms during concurrent, high-risk transformations
Provide clear technical and strategic leadership POV in governance and transformation forums
Partner with SAP, Supply Chain, Stores, Pharmacy, and Data teams and architects to ensure seamless system integrations
What You Bring
Enterprise Integration & Platform Expertise
Strong hands-on experience across enterprise integration technologies, including:
Messaging & File Transfer: IBM MQ, MQFTE
Integration & Orchestration: ACE / IIB
Managed File Transfer / B2B: Cleo (EDI integrations)
API Management: Apigee (or equivalent API gateways)
Orchestration: Cloud Composer (Airflow)
Data & Processing: Dataflow (stream and batch pipelines)
Storage & File Patterns: Cloud Storage
Technical Depth & Systems Thinking
Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns:
Asynchronous messaging and queue-based architectures
API orchestration and service-based communication
File-based and EDI integration workflows
Event-driven architecture (pub/sub, streaming systems)
Strong grasp of distributed systems behavior, including:
Failure modes, retries, and recovery patterns
Throughput, latency, and back-pressure handling
Dependency management across multi-tiered systems
Platform Ownership & Transformation Experience
Proven experience in:
Owning and stabilizing large-scale production platforms
Leading platform and enterprise transformation programs
Ability to operate at both:
Deep technical level (design, troubleshooting, optimization)
Platform leadership level (architecture decisions, cross-system alignment)
What Loblaw Offers You
We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.
Here, you will find a great team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours! Work in our fast-paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues and customers every day.
Loblaw colleagues also enjoy:
Work Perks Program
On-site Gym/Fitness, Basketball & Volleyball courts, Ice Rink, Groceries delivered to work via PC Express, Dry Cleaning services (1PCC Office)
Tuition Reimbursement & Online Learning
Pension & Benefits
Paid Vacation
If you’re up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.
Loblaw recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity and strive to build a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced, valued and supported. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs. Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.
We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.
Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.
If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.
We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.
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