Senior Solutions Architect

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Job Type Permanent

The Position The Senior Solutions Architect plays a critical role in translating business needs into well‑designed, practical solution architectures that enable successful delivery. Working closely with product owners, delivery teams, and technical specialists, this role focuses on designing and guiding business system architectures that are fit‑for‑purpose, secure, resilient, and aligned with established enterprise standards and target states.

This role operates primarily at the solution and initiative level, ensuring that individual projects and products are designed coherently, integrate effectively with the broader ecosystem, and support intended business outcomes.

The Senior Solutions Architect provides hands‑on architectural leadership across solutions, spanning applications, data flows, integrations, and enabling infrastructure considerations, collaborating with data and infrastructure architects.

Benefits

$3,500 plus 4.5% of base salary each year to customize your benefits and investments

Saving plan options, including an Employee Share Purchase Plan, RRSP, and TFSA

Defined Contribution Pension Plan funded by Keyera up to 10% of base salary

Wellness Personal Spending Account of $750 per year to cover wellness expenses

Paid vacation and eight flex days each year

Two paid volunteer days each year to support the causes that are most important to you

Employee Family Assistance Program with support resources from professional counseling to financial planning

Keyera’s Northern Allowance tiered incentive program based on years of service, currently offered to employees working at Grande Prairie Office, Wapiti, Simonette, Gold Creek, South Cheecham, and Fox Creek Terminal

Note: compensation and benefits may differ by location, position, and candidate experience.

Responsibilities Guide Delivery & Enable Execution

Partner with delivery teams to design and resolve complex solution architecture challenges throughout implementation.

Translate business and technical requirements into clear solution architectures, documenting designs, options analysis, trade‑offs, risks, and key decisions.

Support teams through architecture spikes, design workshops, and critical delivery trade‑off decisions, balancing time‑to‑market, cost, risk, and long‑term sustainability.

Work closely with product teams to ensure solution designs support current needs while enabling a sustainable architectural runway across the product lifecycle.

Understand business drivers and capabilities, shaping solution designs and change requirements that deliver targeted business outcomes.

Act as a trusted architectural advisor and coach within agile and hybrid delivery models, providing hands‑on guidance and design assurance.

Example Deliverables: Solution architecture designs, architectural decision records (ADRs), business process and capability impact assessments, design workshop outputs.

Assess Technology

Maintain a high-level understanding of the enterprise application, data, integration, and infrastructure landscape to inform architectural decisions.

Provide architectural input and impact analysis to support product managers in investment, modernization, and end‑of‑life decisions.

Monitor emerging technology trends and disruptions, assessing their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

Identify and frame opportunities for proof‑of‑concept initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and long‑term value.

Analyze technology industry, competitor, and market trends to determine implications for solution and platform strategies.

Support the evaluation and selection of software products and services by contributing to standards definition, total cost of ownership analysis, and architectural fit assessments.

Provide consultative architectural guidance to application and infrastructure initiatives.

Example Deliverables: Current‑state architecture documentation, technology assessments, cost/benefit analysis contributions, POC evaluations.

Apply Technology

Lead the evaluation, design, and analysis of solution architectures across related solutions, products, or initiatives based on enterprise strategy, value streams, business requirements, and standards.

Develop and maintain roadmaps for the evolution of solution portfolios from current to future state, identifying key dependencies, integration patterns, and sequencing considerations.

Create architectural designs and reference architectures to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems.

Work with project and product managers to provide architectural assurance that solution designs and implementation plans align with approved architectures and target states.

Identify and manage architectural dependencies and integration considerations across solutions to promote reuse, scalability, and consistency across the enterprise.

Build architecture capability within delivery teams through coaching, design reviews, and active contribution to architecture communities of practice.

Example Deliverables: Solution architecture designs, solution documentation, platform and integration strategies.

Provide Enterprise Guidance

Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of architecture principles, standards, and patterns.

Apply reference architectures and standards when designing solutions, and provide feedback on their practicality and effectiveness.

Participate in architecture governance and assurance processes, supporting design reviews and documenting compliance considerations.

Actively contribute to architecture communities of practice, promoting alignment between delivery teams and enterprise architecture direction.

Provide input into architectural health discussions by identifying solution‑level technical debt, integration risks, and sustainability concerns.

Example Deliverables: Architecture principles and standards, solution scorecards, enterprise reference architecture components, architectural health assessments.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.

Minimum of fifteen (15) years of hands‑on experience in at least two (2) IT solution development disciplines, with broader understanding across other domains.

Demonstrated exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments.

Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends and their practical application.

Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies; ability to support teams by providing advice on opportunities, impacts, and risks.

Demonstrated ability to translate future‑state business capabilities into solution architecture requirements, including blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.

Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Skilled at understanding the long‑term and short‑term perspectives of situations.

Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.

Effective interpersonal skills to work creatively and analytically for solving business problems and proposing solutions.

Ability to quickly comprehend functions and capabilities of new technologies.

Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice.

Motivated and driven by achieving long‑term business outcomes.

Experience working in the midstream and/or energy industry is preferred but not required.

Posting Expiry Date May 15, 2026

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We offer a well‑rounded total compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program designed with the well‑being and empowerment of our employees and their families in mind.

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