Sr solution architect digital​/banking

Final date to receive applications

12/21/2025

33 Dundas Street West

Technology

As a member of the BMO Digital Architecture, the Senior Solution Architect, primarily

• Leads end-to-end technology solutions and high-level designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with bank’s target architecture and standards for a business domain like Deposits, Cards, Lending, Channels, etc.

• Drives technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas – deposits, cards, payments, operations, customer experience, analytics working with business and technology partners

• Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domain s to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems

• Solution architect , who works with other architects including enterprise architects, leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank’s target architecture and standards

• Previous Development experience (
  Cloud, Dev Ops, Agile)

• Experience with services management (
  web services, REST, Web API, ESB , message-based) development, integration and deployment

• Enterprise-level Application Architecture

• Strong application security /infrastructure, & deployment exposure

• Data placement and data integration background

• Able to relate to end-to-end business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX

• All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight,

• Multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience

• API design API Security , digital/mobile architecture experience

• AI, Insights, Automation experience

• Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus

• MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g., solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.

• Resolve issues as they arise

• Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options, solution architecture, high-level end-to-end design flow) collaborating with other technical leads

• Assists with and contributes to function area-specific target architecture, transition architectures, and technology roadmap

• Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against BMO target architecture and standards to solve business problems

• Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately

• Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the “C” level

• Banking solution experience is desirable

• Understands or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g., AWS) technologies

• The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to
  4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g., Channels, Sales/Marketing/CRM, Commercial Lending, Collections)

• 15 years of IT experience with minimum 6 years of hands‑on solution architecture experience for enterprise‑grade applications

• Hard-core developers for Java or .Net application coding

• DBA, Data modellers

• Project or Program Manager

• Business analyst, Data analyst, System Analyst or System Administrator

• Coordinate cross-team communication and facilitate reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums. Lead socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.

• Facilitate and lead resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members

• Identify and communicate risks (business, application, technical) associated with component or application implementation.

• Evaluate multiple solution design options, working with a multi-disciplined team to design integrated solution architecture across application areas and helping the project…