Intermediate Solutions Designer

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Intermediate Solutions Designer to oversee and provide technical direction for delivery teams implementing complex technology solutions. In this role, you will bridge technical architecture with business execution, ensuring that application designs align with enterprise roadmaps and quality standards. Acting as a technical leader, you will lead cloud migration efforts, validate service provider deliverables, and drive release execution to ensure business outcomes are successfully realized.

Location: Toronto, ON

Duration: 6-month contract.



Advantages
Strategic Architectural Footprint: Drive high-visibility on-premise to cloud migration initiatives for mission-critical enterprise applications.

Executive & Vendor Exposure: Lead high-level technical discussions with strategic service providers, vendors, and senior business leaders.

Modern Delivery Practices: Direct agile delivery pipelines using cutting-edge DevOps methodologies, containerization, and cloud-native frameworks.

End-to-End Release Authority: Own the solution validation process from initial architectural blueprinting through to production release.



Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Blueprinting: Translate strategic decision records and 12–18 month roadmaps into short-term, executable delivery plans and sprint schedules.

Cloud Migration Leadership: Lead and oversee the architectural migration of legacy on-premise applications to modern cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).

Delivery Oversight & Validation: Validate that solution designs, configuration artifacts, and quality control results meet business expectations and technical standards at key release checkpoints.

Service Provider & Vendor Management: Review third-party statements of work, evaluate proposals, and provide technical guidance to vendor teams to ensure alignment with delivery timelines and performance metrics.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement: Lead technical discussions with vendors, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to resolve development issues, manage changes, and align solution expectations.

Integration & Infrastructure Engineering: Oversee application and infrastructure integration points across diverse systems, ensuring effective monitoring, automation, and system capacity planning.

Risk Triage & Release Governance: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical delivery risks, supporting quarterly production releases and release management schedules.

Agile & DevOps Leadership: Drive the adoption of modern delivery practices (DevOps, Agile, Lean) utilizing tools like JIRA and Confluence to manage backlogs and release pipelines.



Qualifications
Initiative Delivery Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience contributing to the success of midsize-to-large technology initiatives with high complexity and business criticality (Strictly Required).

Cloud Migration Depth: 10+ years of hands-on experience migrating legacy on-premise applications to cloud platforms (Strictly Required).

Vendor & Stakeholder Facilitation: Proven comfort and experience leading technical discussions, negotiating deliverables, and managing relationships with external vendors and business stakeholders (Strictly Required).

Agile & DevOps Tooling: Expertise in applying Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and using tools such as JIRA and Confluence for lifecycle management.

Integration & Architecture Knowledge: Strong background in application integration principles, infrastructure engineering (compute, storage, networking), and release governance frameworks.

Desirable Assets:
Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture, PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, or Agile certifications (ACP/CSPO).

Post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or Business Administration.



Summary
If you're interested in the "Intermediate Solutions Designer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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