Senior Solution Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Transform business requirements into comprehensive enterprise solution architectures.

• Provide guidance to project teams and technical subject matter experts (SMEs) while ensuring consistency with enterprise standards, governance, and technology roadmaps.

• Create and sustain logical, physical, integration, security, data, and infrastructure architecture documentation.

• Assess solution alternatives and propose implementation strategies based on business value, technical feasibility, cost, risk, and operational factors.

• Ensure that solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and regulatory obligations.

• Take ownership of architecture reviews, present solution designs, address governance issues, and obtain architectural approval.

• Recognize and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and implementation challenges throughout project lifecycles.

• Design integration strategies across applications, platforms, infrastructure, data sources, and external partners.

• Foster collaboration with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, network, and application teams.

• Document architecture choices, technical assumptions, and implementation directions.

• Contribute to architectural methodologies, templates, standards, and reusable design patterns.

• Share insights, best practices, and lessons learned with project teams and fellow architects.

• Stay current with technologies, platforms, and vendor solutions.

• Promote secure, sustainable, and supportable solutions that enhance business value while reducing complexity and technical debt.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

• A minimum of twelve years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, or a related technical field.

• At least eight years of experience in designing and implementing intricate business and technology solutions across various technology domains.

• Proven experience leading architecture activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational transition.

• Hands-on expertise in a minimum of three technical disciplines such as application development, cloud platforms, systems integration, infrastructure services, data management, cybersecurity, networking, or enterprise applications.

• Strong understanding of architecture governance processes and active participation in architecture review and design authority functions.

• Mastery level knowledge of solution architecture principles, design methodologies, and systems integration practices.

• Experience in designing solutions that leverage cloud services, SaaS platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and hybrid environments.

• Familiarity with application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure architecture domains and their interrelations within end-to-end solutions.

• Ability to independently assess technology options and formulate solution recommendations based on functionality, cost, risk, supportability, and alignment with business needs.

• Mastery level understanding of non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, scalability, performance, maintainability, and disaster recovery.

• TOGAF Foundation or Certification.

• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent cloud certifications.

• ITIL Foundation certification.

• SAFe Architect, SAFe Agilist, or other Agile-related certifications.

• Eligibility for or capability to obtain authorization for access to Canadian-controlled hardware, software, technical information, and the Canadian Controlled Goods Program.

• Ability to acquire a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-sponsored Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan, and Well-Being program.

• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with company contributions and matching to a DCPP, with no vesting period.

• Paid company holidays, vacation days, and sick leave.

• Optional Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, and Long-Term Disability insurance.

• Employee discounts on home, auto, and gym memberships.

• Benefits available to full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents.

• Accommodations provided throughout the interview process.

• First Shift, Monday through Friday; Core Business Hours.