Solution Architect

Location: Downtown Toronto (Central Bay Street)

Final date to receive applications:
01/10/2026

Address:
33 Dundas Street West

Job Family Group:
Technology

This hybrid position will allow for a candidate to not only play a vital role in the development and implementation of solutions but will be also involved in its socialization and adaption by the business sponsors and technology stakeholders. This role will allow a candidate to develop business and technical expertise in the Wealth Management Technology domain, be exposed to industry and leading-edge architectures, solution patterns and technologies and develop meaningful cross-functional relationships with other groups at BMO.

Group Culture:
This candidate will be working in the Solution Delivery Architecture CoE across Canadian Wealth, Digital and Insurance Technology, liaising closely with the business partners, and working alongside other solution architects, account managers, business analysts and senior developers. The team is incredibly close-knit, collaborative, and high performing.

Role Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Creates and manages key architecture assets for the designated portfolio and business scope

Leads technical solutions for enterprise programs, and portfolio projects

Build effective solutions based on business requirements, working closely with the business and other technology partners

Creates technical design recommendations aligned to standards for development and integration of new products, services, applications, and technology solutions.

Produce conceptual and detailed solution architectures to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through documentation of use case diagrams, component interaction diagrams, data flows diagrams and sequence diagrams, using available solution architecture authoring tools

Ensure adherence of the proposed solution architecture with all relevant internal standards and external regulations

Manage trade-offs between speed to market, quality and financial impact

Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities, and individual learning.

Clarify/identify/validate impacted application components and requirements to account manager and BA, which are further extended to the business for approval

Work alongside the Enterprise Architecture team to gage the feasibility of proposed solution and application enhancements/creation

Provides input into the preparation of business case by providing key architectural insights on feasibility, risks, and alignment with enterprise strategy

Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities, and individual learning

Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations

Has some experience in architecting and designing scalable, high availability application solutions that leverage the cloud platform and infrastructure

Architects and develops applications to be cloud optimized.

Has experience in evaluating the architecture of cloud solutions to understand how technical decisions may impact business outcomes and recommend cloud solutions and technologies that align with the business requirements

Must-Have

Skills:

5+ years of Solution Architect experience in a large, enterprise level environment

5+ years of experience in enterprise, application, and information architecture design

7+ years of software development experience (no specific software development experience specified)

Main Tech stack (based on current Insurance portfolio) - .Net Core, C#, Java, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS/Azure (primary: AWS, secondary  Azure) cloud

Knowledge of Oracle, ESP job scheduler, SFTP

Nice to have
-IBMi (AS400), COBOL, DB2

Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, databases, information warehouses and data modeling techniques

Strong experience with real-time and batch interface design and implementations, including sequence diagrams and documentation

Strong experience with SOAP/XML and RESTFUL/JSON schema design and implementation

Strong experience with database structures and relational database design and modeling

Strong Cloud…