Solution Architect

Location & Logistics

• Location:
  
  hybrid – onsite 2x/week
• Contract Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension)
• Schedule
  
  Hours:
  
  9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week (Possible OT)

Business group: GTA Business Support & Engineering;
Project: multiple projects within Capital Markets and Core banking area. The Senior Solutions Architect ensures that the applications architecture and infrastructure supporting major, highly complex applications are designed to meet evolving business requirements and meet standards for reliability, scalability and availability. The incumbent will provide architecture and technology guidance on all projects to ensure consistency in approaches and to optimize technology synergy.

The Solutions Architect also provides expertise and counsel ensuring technology teams and business areas understand all the options and technology choices in support of their business. The Solutions Architect is a technology and business expert with strong leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to influence others.

• 10+ years of software engineering industry experience
• 5+ years of experience working in the banking sector
• 2+ years of experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps
• 2+ years of experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems
• Experience with creating architecture presentations, solution diagrams, and presenting to stakeholders

• Experience in modernizing legacy systems or similar transformational initiatives
• Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development

• Excellent interpersonal, communication
• Excellent influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related.

The Solution Architect provides expert advice and counsel to Corporate, Business Partner and/or IT areas on complex issues related to area of specialty. This position may have multiple concurrent initiatives occurring at any one time. The incumbent must ensure high availability, integrity and reliability of programs developed where the consequences of error could expose the Bank to a significant loss or undue risk.

NOTE:

will review any requests for accommodations put forward by Suppliers.