Solution Architect

Competition Number:
2024-020

Functional Area:
Data & Digital

Location:
200 Front Street W, Toronto Ontario

Job Term:
Permanent full-time

Hours of Work:
36. 25 hours per week

Bargaining Unit:
AMAPCEO

Job Code:
AMAPCEO 7

Salary Range:
$88,496 - $128,625 per year

Posting Status:
Open

Posting Date:
January 16, 2025

As a Solution Architect you willproactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. These solutions will include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

You will be creating deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions - including systems, shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

Other key responsibilities include:

Interpreting Business Needs:

• Translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
• Working closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.
• Understanding business drivers and business capabilities and determining corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements.

Assessing Technology:

• Monitoring the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Monitoring micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making.
• Supporting product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Facilitating the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consulting with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Evaluating and recommending API management platforms and integration strategies to support business objectives.
• Assessing current infrastructure and applications for cloud migration potential.
• Developing comprehensive cloud migration strategies, including assessing TCO and ROI for different cloud platforms and services.

Applying Technology:

• Leading evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Acting as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Working closely with the program management office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle.
• Providing consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Designing and overseeing the implementation of API-first architectures and microservices.
• Leading the development of integration patterns and standards for connecting disparate systems and services.
• Architect scalable and resilient cloud-native solutions leveraging containerization and serverless technologies.

Providing Enterprise Guidance:

• Providing deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Supporting a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Defining the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Establishing best practices for API design, development, and management across the organization.
• Developing and maintaining a cloud adoption framework tailored to the organization's needs.
• Creating and overseeing cloud governance policies, including security, compliance, and cost optimization strategies.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following:

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in designing and implementing API-driven architectures and integration solutions.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing complex technology solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in leading large-scale cloud migration projects.
• Track record of designing and implementing successful API strategies and integration solutions.
• Experience in optimizing application performance and costs in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to guide development teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and practices.
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting.

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and frameworks.
• Proficiency in various technologies and platforms, such as cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), databases, microservices, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Relevant certifications (e. g. , TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e. g. , Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python.
• Understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle.
• Skilled in various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud or customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
• Understanding and know.