Senior Solution Architect​/Designer

Who we are

ML arteka is one of the fastest-growing IT Services and Consulting companies in Canada and serves some of the most iconic brands, including Google, Loblaws, Staples, Telus, Bell, Rogers, CIBC, BMO, CMLS, Fossil, Fitbit and more. Over the last decade, we have achieved 100% client retention and earned more than 20 notable industry recognition. This reflects our reliability in delivering what we promise and the quality we bring to every engagement.

Join our growth-driven culture and help us lead, innovate, and simplify. We are looking for a team members who embody our values:

• Empathetic - we listen, we understand, and are considerate of everyone
• Persevering - we don't give up on challenges or people and go all the way
• Inclusive - we value everyone and their perspectives
• Reliable - we deliver what we promise, and more
• Innovative - we make things better than they were yesterday

As a Solution Architect / Designer, you will be responsible for designing end-to-end technology solutions across enterprise banking platforms. You will translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing technical solutions that align with enterprise architecture and strategic objectives.

You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineering, and QA teams to deliver robust solutions across domains such as payments, lending, digital banking, and client servicing.

• Translate business requirements into comprehensive technical designs for development and QA teams
• Design end-to-end solutions
  , including:
  • Application architecture
  • Integration patterns (APIs, microservices, middleware)
  • Data models and persistence strategies
  • Infrastructure (cloud and on-prem)
• Produce design artifacts:
  • High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD)
  • Sequence, component, and deployment diagrams
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as scalability, performance, availability, and resilience

• Lead design of complex, multi-system enterprise solutions
• Define and implement:
  • REST/SOAP APIs
  • Event-driven and service-oriented architectures
  • Establish integration patterns:
    • Synchronous vs asynchronous communication
    • Messaging and streaming architectures
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, governance, and architecture principles

• Business stakeholders for requirement clarification
• Enterprise architects for design alignment
• Engineering and QA teams for implementation support
• Facilitate design reviews, walkthroughs, and architecture governance sessions
• Communicate technical trade-offs and recommend optimal solutions

Contribute to technology roadmaps (1–3 years) aligned with business goals

• Drive adoption of:
  • Cloud-native architectures
  • API-first and microservices strategies
  • Automation and digital transformation initiatives

• Act as lead designer on large, complex initiatives
• Mentor developers, QA engineers, and junior designers
• Promote best practices in design, coding standards, and architecture patterns

• Enterprise security standards and frameworks
• Regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, PIPEDA)
• Design secure solutions using:
  • Authentication and authorization frameworks
  • Encryption and data protection standards
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate design risks early in the lifecycle

• Expertise in designing enterprise-grade distributed systems

• Strong knowledge of:
  • Microservices architecture (DDD, bounded contexts)
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Proficient in:
    • UML / C4 modeling techniques
    • Design patterns (CQRS, Saga, Circuit Breaker, Adapter, Factory)

• Strong experience designing:
  • RESTful APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger)
  • SOAP services (legacy integrations)
  • Hands-on with:
    • API gateways (Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management)
    • Middleware/ESB (Mule Soft, IBM Integration Bus)
    • Expertise in:
      • Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
      • Data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

• Experience with:
  • AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS)
  • Azure (AKS, App Services, Functions, Service Bus)
• Strong…