Solution Architect

The digital advisor and client experience team is on a journey of transformation. We have a vision for the client and advisor experience of tomorrow and are looking for a smart self starter to help us tackle numerous challenges within the experience. You will be joining a high performing team working supporting the digital channel agile teams. This teams mandate is to deliver on features that delight our clients and help promote further adoption of our digital channels (Onboarding, Client Portal & Mobile)

The architect will also be a strong leader responsible for supporting and collaborating on ad hoc projects like Privacy Now and discovery projects on items that range from (salesforce, secure messaging, Authentication and Authorization, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design (architecture lead) for all aspects:
  • System -- functional requirements, development, component selection and reuse, integration;
  • Technological -- non-functional and technical requirements, use of new design approaches (e. g. cloud, mobility), safety, performance, availability);
  • Organizational -- processes, change management, requirements (functional specifications), legal and regulatory obligations.
• Owner of the global solution architecture documentation, which will serve as the main information vehicle within the architecture process and should facilitate the review of all technical aspects in addition to supporting decision-making.
• Ensure that the solution is secured and integrated into the affected ecosystems in order to minimize potential problems and, when likely or unavoidable, propose pragmatic workaround solutions.
• Ensure the integrity and quality of the end-to-end solution -- from design to delivery -- including constant validation of the team's understanding of requirements.
• Maintain the traceability of architectural decisions, certify the technical project documentation and verify the updates of the core documentation affected by the work.
• Provide multidisciplinary leadership within the solution delivery team (designers, analysts, developers, etc.) and peripheral collaborators, including external suppliers.
• Contribute to the success of the project, by acting in a fashion to help manage target schedule, scope and budgets.
• With the support of the enterprise architecture team, and in collaboration with it in order to maintain corporate alignment, ensure compliance of the solutions with prescriptive design guidelines and models, processes, use of standardized tools, standards and other architectural methods approved by enterprise architecture.
• By constantly monitoring trends in architecture, promote and participate in the evolution of cutting-edge methodologies, tools and services that conform to corporate standards and guidelines.
• Collaborates with the business and the delivery team to iterative design an end-to-end solution for the project
• Identifies required architectural significant decisions and associated risks
• Defers irreversible decisions if there is imperfect information and leading appropriate architecture spikes with the delivery team
• Collaboratively defines key mechanisms with the delivery team through Agile modeling
• Identifies opportunities for reuse and extensibility balanced against complexity, cost and timelines
• Collaborates with delivery teams to identify non-functional requirements and provides appropriate guidance and leadership to help maintain quality solutions
• Documents architectural design for the project in a centralized or project repository

Enhanced Capabilities

• Collaborates with the business and the delivery team to iterative design an end-to-end solution for the project
• Identifies required architectural significant decisions and associated risks
• Defers irreversible decisions if there is imperfect information and leading appropriate architecture spikes with the delivery team
• Collaboratively defines key mechanisms with the delivery team through Agile modeling
• Identifies opportunities for reuse and extensibility balanced against complexity, cost and timelines
• Collaborates with delivery teams to identify non-functional requirements and provides appropriate guidance and leadership to help maintain quality solutions
• Documents architectural design for the project in a centralized or project repository

Target profile :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management informatics, information systems, computer engineering or software, mathematics or any other relevant training at the same level.
• 12 years of experience in information technology and a minimum of 7 years as an IT architecture professional in various projects and large organizations.
• Multidisciplinary team leadership demonstrated time and again
• Ability to simultaneously handle several aspects of the same complex situation, in the best interest of the internal partner and the organization.
• Excellent communicator and accessible technical speaker, both with IT teams and business people
• Excellent negotiation and advanced conflict resolution skills.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e. g. TOGAF, Zachman, etc.)
• Experience in designing highly availability, reliability, usability and high-volume applications and systems.
• Good knowledge/understanding of key strategic IT technologies
• Experience working with SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), DevOps, Agile and LEAN methodologies and ITIL framework
• Very good knowledge of English, both orally and in writing – equivalent knowledge for French will be considered a strong asset
• Knowledge of Microsoft technology and Java
• Proven knowledge of the financial services and insurance sector (asset).
• Azure cloud or other cloud provider (AWS, GCP)
• Expertise in one or more of the following technologies or platforms
• Inter-system integration (Kafka, API, microservices, etc)
• Digital technologies (SPA frameworks, open APIs, security, mobile/web, containers)
• AzureDevOps
• Ability to work in an agile manner and to make decisions.
• Expertise in evaluating solutions and costs
• Develop sustainable, creative solutions while respecting the corporate framework
• Design solutions with a focus on asset reuse
• Raise the functional and non-functional requirements associated with expressed needs
• Guide modern solutions based on cloud and loosely coupled technologies
• Act as a high-performing team player on a multidisciplinary team
• A mobilizing attitude towards the team, encouraging the spirit of collaboration

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