Senior Architect, Director

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Director, Solutions Architecture – Enterprise Architecture

Fitch Group is seeking a Director, Solutions Architecture based in our Toronto office, reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect for the Fitch Group line of business you support.

This is a hands-on architecture role built around one core relationship: engineering squads. You'll partner directly with the teams building technology across your line of business, helping them design solutions, navigate architecture standards, and build with confidence. You'll also help build our internal automated governance agents, contributing hands-on to the tools that support technology evaluation, PR review, and standards enforcement across the organization.

This is an individual contributor role — no direct reports — for someone who leads through influence, expertise, and relationship.

What We Offer:

Direct Engineering Partnership:
Serve as the architecture partner engineering squads actually want to talk to — someone who helps them solve real problems, not someone who shows up to gate their work.

Hands-On Contribution to Automated Governance:
Build agents alongside the EA team — PR review, ARB submission support, technology evaluation — using your own experience with agent orchestration, observability, and MCP tooling.

Influence Without Bureaucracy:
Shape how engineering teams adopt architecture patterns through demonstrated value, not mandate. You earn trust by being useful.

AI-Native Engineering at Scale:
Help define how an entire line of business builds software with AI — from coding assistants to agentic development workflows — and set the practices other teams follow.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Be the Architect Engineers Call First:
Provide direct architecture guidance to the engineering squads in your line of business — solution design, trade-off analysis, pattern selection — in the flow of their actual work.

Support ARB and JAD Sessions When It Matters:
Step in to help squads prepare when a new technology or a new pattern is entering the picture — pressure-testing the design and reducing back-and-forth before formal review.

Build Agents for the EA Lifecycle:
Contribute directly to the agents that power technology evaluation, PR review, standards enforcement, and ARB submission support.

Translate Standards Into Practice:
Take architecture principles and the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and make them concrete and actionable for engineers building real systems.

Prototype Before You Recommend:
Build working examples of patterns before asking teams to adopt them. Credibility here comes from having built it yourself.

Partner Across Engineering:
Work closely with engineering leads to understand their constraints and tailor architecture guidance to their specific context — what works for one squad won't work for all of them.

Champion AI-Based Development:
Help squads adopt AI-assisted and agentic development — coding assistants, AI-driven testing, and agentic workflows — and establish the patterns, guardrails, and metrics that let them ship faster with confidence rather than treating AI as a novelty.

Drive Down Technical Liabilities:
Use the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and the enterprise architecture graph of dependencies to give squads a clear view of their technical debt — what to retire, what to modernize, and where hidden coupling creates risk before it becomes an incident.

Automate Upgrades and Modernization:
Help teams stand up automated dependency upgrades, patching, and modernization pipelines — so keeping systems current becomes a routine, low-effort habit instead of a stop-the-world project.

Own Reference Architectures and Reference Code:
Create, curate, and maintain reusable reference architectures and a well-documented reference code base that squads can build from — raising the bar on consistency, quality, and speed across your line of business.

What You Need to Have:

Deep Technical Architecture

Experience:

A strong record designing…