Senior Solution Architect – Wealth Technology | TOGAF, Azure/AWS, APIs, Microservices &

Senior Solution Architect – Wealth Technology | TOGAF, Azure/AWS, APIs, Microservices & Modernization -

Duration: 18 Months

Location: Toronto (Hybrid, 3x/week)

Overview:

The Solutions Architect will collaborate with their portfolio & technology teams as well as business leaders, sponsors, and stakeholders to develop strategies and roadmaps. They will work to define and maintain architecture artifacts for supporting project delivery and application support and lead technical vision and direction for solutions, ensuring consistency with overall enterprise and portfolio architecture that may at times include hands-on development. The Solutions Architect will also have the opportunity to effect change within the organization by incorporating new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.

Responsibilities:

• Defines and facilitates a solution architecture that leverages enterprise capabilities and efficient usage of process, technology, data and people to align these capabilities
• Consults with business partners and delivery stakeholders
• Leads the definition of and maintains the technical solution architecture(s) for Wealth projects
• Contributes to the development of the technology strategy for the Wealth business area
• Focal point for significant infrastructure and development issues, ensuring quality designs
• Proactively identifies opportunities where solutions can enhance organizational efficiency
• Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends
• Acts as trusted technology advisor/advocate for business units
• Leads and supports the development of technology roadmaps and proposals to achieve business plans.
• Fosters a high-performance culture for staff in the architecture team and influences overall team culture
• Works closely with all team members to create solutions that accommodate future architectural changes and designs
• Identify critical driving forces of process, data, people and technology at the highest levels
• Ability to look beyond traditional business concepts and drill to the heart of a given concept

Must Haves:

• Minimum 10 years of related experience in technology environments
• Minimum 8 years of experience working as an architect related to business functional and solution delivery
• Experience in portfolio, program, and project delivery
• Experience in Wealth Management technology ecosystems
• Proven business acumen demonstrated through broad understanding of an organization, functions, practices, trends and competition
• Financial acumen demonstrated through development of business cases
• Understands the framework (i.e. structure, people, processes, and technology) that supports an organization’s strategy and can successfully leverage it

Nice to Have:

• Experience with application modernization
• Experience in the financial services industry, particularly Wealth
• Experience with virtualization, service architecture, and cloud computing
• Development experience in RDBMS, modern programming language(s) and frameworks, services, SDLC, automation, agile
• Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, Archimate, 4 View Model, etc, LeanIX), architecture practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines