Job Title: Solutions Architect V Duration: 12 months (Possibility of Extension/Conversion) Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 4 days onsite a week)
Scope of Project: Multiple projects needing support – Related to Canadian digital channels Team Size/Culture: 5 ppl
Required Degree/Level of Education: Bachelors Required Years of Overall Experience: 10 + yrs
Preferred/Ideal Candidate Background:
Experience with high volume eventing and/or notification/messaging systems
Ideally experience within the FI industry
Experience in delivering cloud-first architectures
Summary Of The Role:
Develops and maintains respective architecture framework / solution that supports the most efficient, reliable, scalable, and secure solutions to meet the business needs and technology strategy; this includes planning, evaluating, recommending and designing architectural solutions in compliance with enterprise standards. Contribute to, design and/or develop an architecture framework including technology domain architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented.
Work with CoE partners and other Architects to understand the security standards, risks and ratify solution security design.
Research/analyze business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within technology architecture.
Review project detailed solution architecture and design ensuring it meets requirements / complies with the architectural and security standards, patterns and frameworks and provide sign-off on the detailed design.
Contribute to the development of project plans by providing input and manage projects / initiatives by directing assigned resources, communicating project status and providing timely escalation of issues.
Provide expert consultation and participate as a subject matter expert on projects of moderate to high risk and complexity.
Work with Technology Systems Analysts to develop a Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure end-to-end traceability of the solution to the requirements.
Build consensus and facilitate collaboration and decision-making within/across business units to ensure consistent application of IT strategy and compliance with architecture framework.
Ensure projects are compliant with technology domain architecture and design/operate processes to provide ongoing review of inprogress activity against technology architecture and development standards.
Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines - including creation of project documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope and cost.
Support the development, documentation, communication and execution of a comprehensive strategy, policies and solutions.
Conduct pre and post implementation reviews, ensuring all technical solutions have met business requirements.
Contribute to and/or develop the process by which decisions will be made regarding technology standards.
Protect/enhance the security, availability of technology, brand integrity and shareholder value by establishing parameters for continued investment in technology solutions, and providing technical risk analysis / assessment.
Identify enhancements and gaps in architectural frameworks, standards and patterns to raise issues for inclusion in future versions.
Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective client solutions.
May develop and/or contribute to negotiations of third party contracts/agreements.
Participate in knowledge transfer with senior management, the team, other technical areas and business units.
Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services.
Expert knowledge of architecture for own technology, tools, processes and procedures and broader organization issues and technology.
Advanced knowledge of Client applications, programming languages, industry best practices, business/ organization, Bank standards, infrastructure, architecture.
Works autonomously on complex, highly visible architecture projects / initiatives.
Manages / directs activities related to analysis and design of architecture on larger, high risk / complex projects.
Acts as a lead expert resource in the exchange of architectural information for project teams, the business and/or outside vendors.
Generally reports to Senior Managing Architect or above Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
Graduate degree, preferred10+ years relevant experience
Typical Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Forward deployment to pod(s) responsible for providing tech shared services to enterprise
Project level architecture/design work, including documenting architectural solutions, assessment of options, target state views/roadmaps and executive level summaries/views
Architectural governance
Must-Have Skills:
1.) Azure Cloud 2.) Experience designing/tuning high throughput eventing/messaging systems 3.) Kafka / Confluent Cloud
Soft Skills: 1.) Strong communication skills; written and verbal communication skills 2.) Work independently
Nice-To-Have
1.) Amazon Connect 2.) AWS/GCP Cloud platforms
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.The pay rate for this position is C$78.00/hr.
