Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Assess business needs, convert them into technical solutions, and determine suitable technologies and platforms.

• Create solution architecture encompassing software, hardware, and networking elements.

• Lead development teams throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to guarantee that solutions align with both technical and business goals.

• Encourage and facilitate peer reviews of team deliverables.

• Produce consistent and effective documentation that complies with team standards and templates.

• Evaluate current systems and formulate strategies for enhancement or optimal utilization.

• Share knowledge with IS team members to foster the adoption of standards and best practices.

• Create proofs of concept to illustrate the viability of proposed products, methods, or concepts.

• Stay informed about technology inventory assets, identify opportunities for adaptation and reuse, research market trends, and make decisions regarding build-versus-buy-versus-repurpose.

• Connect business challenges with technology solutions within the enterprise architecture team.

• Enhance cost efficiency, future-proof systems, project outcomes, security, and compliance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of continuous experience in IT.

• At least five years of experience functioning as an architect within a specific IT architecture domain.

• A university degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related IT field.

• TOGAF certification or demonstrated proficiency with a comparable methodology or framework is mandatory.

• Experience leading a variety of projects that tackle business and IT challenges.

• Proficient in modeling using common solution description languages, standards, tools, and visual aids.

• Formal practitioner of IT methodologies and participant in project management methodologies.

• Demonstrated experience in designing complex solutions across diverse platforms throughout implementation and operations.

• Expertise in architecture best practices, development methodologies, domain-specific modeling techniques, and solution documentation.

• Experience in software application development using Agile or Waterfall SDLC approaches, along with specification-level writing.

• Systems integration experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment utilizing an Enterprise Service Bus and API-based messaging standards.

• Familiarity with COTS solutions as well as custom applications.

• Competency in using code repositories such as GitHub, TFS, or Azure DevOps.

• Ability to thrive in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Capability to operate within a Test Driven Development setting.

• Experience with Ovation, Salesforce, OutSystems, Boomi, Databricks, Visual Studio, C#, ASP.Net, ASP.Net Core, jQuery, Power Platform, or Cloud Architecture is a plus.

• Capability to juggle multiple competing projects, timelines, schedules, and scopes.

• Prompt communication and appropriate escalation of issues.

• The selected candidate must successfully complete a criminal background check, reference check, and credit check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, including performance-based incentive pay and profit sharing.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Vacation program.

• Retirement savings programs.

• Opportunities for training and development.

• Potential for career advancement.

• Flexible work options.

• Engaging work aligned with individual and corporate objectives.

• Employee volunteer program and chances to contribute to the community.

• Profit sharing.

• Voting rights for the board of directors as a credit union member.

• Access to all financial services offered by the credit union.

• Accommodations available at every stage of the hiring process upon request.