Senior Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to design, guide, and assist in the implementation of technology solutions.

• Convert business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solution designs that align with NORAM and Thales enterprise architecture standards, technology strategies, and organizational goals.

• Assess business requirements and formulate solution architectures.

• Support project delivery teams to ensure technology solutions meet desired business outcomes while optimizing costs and managing risks.

• Establish and nurture relationships with project teams and regional technical stakeholders.

• Articulate the value of solution architecture designs and provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle.

• Guide project teams and technical SMEs in transforming business requirements into enterprise solution architectures.

• Create and maintain logical, physical, integration, security, data, and infrastructure architecture artifacts.

• Evaluate solution options and recommend implementation strategies based on business value, technical feasibility, cost, risk, and operational considerations.

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

• Lead architecture reviews, present solution designs, address governance findings, and secure architectural approvals.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and implementation challenges.

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

• Drive cross-functional collaboration with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, network, and application teams.

• Document architectural decisions, technical assumptions, and implementation guidance.

• Contribute to architecture methods, templates, standards, and reusable design patterns.

• Share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned.

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

• Promote secure, sustainable, and supportable designs that maximize business value while minimizing complexity and technical debt.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Twelve or more years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Eight or more years of experience in designing and implementing complex business and technology solutions across multiple technology domains.

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

• Practical experience in at least three technical fields such as application development, cloud platforms, systems integration, infrastructure services, data management, cybersecurity, networking, or enterprise applications.

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

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

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

• Understanding of application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure architecture disciplines and their interactions within end-to-end solutions.

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

• Mastery-level knowledge 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 ability to obtain authorization for access to Canadian export-controlled hardware, software, and technical information.

• Eligibility for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program.

• Ability to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-paid 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.

• Company-paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.

• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability options.

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

• Accommodations provided throughout the interview process.

• Full-time employee benefits for those working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents.