Solutions Architect

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
• 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
• 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

Must-Have Skills:

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

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.

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