Application Solutions Architect - Tangerine

Tangerine Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking digital bank as an Application Solutions Architect, where your passion for technology and innovation will help redefine the Canadian banking landscape. In this role, you'll lead architectural design and guide engineering teams to build world-class digital products that enhance client experiences. Collaborate in a diverse and inclusive environment that values creativity and continuous improvement. With access to extensive learning opportunities and a commitment to employee wellbeing, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic industry. Embrace your true self and thrive in a culture that celebrates individuality and teamwork.

Benefits

Flexible Workspace

Access to Online Courses

Diverse and Inclusive Team

Wellbeing Benefits

Recognition of Success

Casual Dress Code

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience with hands-on architectural design.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise technologies and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to coach teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design for software applications and digital products.
• Refine application architecture and technical delivery vision.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to optimize strategic KPIs.

Skills

Software Development

Architectural Design

Cloud Technologies

APIs

Microservices

Agile Methodologies

DevOps

Communication Skills

Payments Knowledge

Performance Tuning

Education

Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science

Tools

J2EE

GCP

Containers

ReST

Caching

Job description

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Title: Application Solutions Architect - Tangerine

Requisition ID: 217901

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

As Canada’s leading digital bank, Tangerine technology is at the heart of everything we do. We have redefined what digital banking is, and we continue to evolve to tackle any opportunity and face every challenge through progressive technology and the power of collaboration.

Do you like new challenges? Are you ready to reach new heights in your career and become part of an established disruptor? If so, come join us and help redefine the Canadian banking landscape!

What you will be doing:

As an Application Solutions Architect, you will be joining a team that is guiding Tangerine engineering delivery teams in designing and building world-class digital products and compelling Client Experience. We're looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators, and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

By joining our team, you will have an opportunity to elevate both our technical platform and delivery practices to levels that the industry will want to mimic, while delivering to our current commitments. You will provide overall leadership and technical guidance that enables creative delivery of solutions spanning mobile and web applications, integrations, backend services and APIs.

You will take responsibility for refining the application architecture and technical delivery ‘vision’, ensuring that every member of the team keeps that vision clearly in mind. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture towards refining the engineering roadmap and will work with other Engineering leaders and stakeholders on applying the engineering OKRs to optimize strategic Engineering KPI’s.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

You take great pride in your craft and skills. For you, it is more than a job, it is a passion, and you have an inherent internal drive to excel and to do better today than you did yesterday. You are a person with a natural sense of curiosity, and a personal desire to improve. You are looking for a career where you can be passionate about both the vision and mission of the company while helping to define the blueprint for transformation of the industry. You pride yourself on building highly adaptive teams, with both your peers and colleagues, through coaching and hands on examples of new and better ways to meet the needs of your customers. You strive for a higher sense of purpose and a desire to create business value; it is more than just a job, it’s a calling. You want to play a significant role in a culture that values collaboration, trust, simplicity, and continuous feedback. To you this is not a dream, it is a reality, and you know such team environments exist, because you have worked in such an environment before. Through your experiences and passion, you are ready to help create this type of environment with us. You believe that you are the right talent to help us take this journey to the next level.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

1. You have an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent.
2. You have 10+ years of software development experience with clear progression through various roles leading with at least 3 years of experience providing hands-on architectural design for software applications with proven track record of building a product and taking it to market.
3. Ample knowledge of enterprise technologies, including and not limited to, J2EE, Cloud (GCP preferred), containers, APIs, ReST, Caching, and enterprise application integration and system design.
4. You relentlessly pursue systemic avenues to address issues proactively, through ongoing refinement of technical platform and delivery model.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.
6. Knowledge in Payments and Payment modernization is an asset.
7. Experience in Agile, DevOps and all things iterative.
8. Hands on knowledge of Microservices, design patterns, cloud native development.
9. Knowledge of SRE practices and performance tuning are an asset.
10. Able to coach and are a hands-on polyglot that can program still and lives in the code with full-stack capability. Comfortable designing a service one day and building UI the next or designing and building a brand-new framework leveraging cutting-edge technologies.
11. You are focused on converting high level requirements into the architecture and design that ultimately constitute the blueprint for the solution. In that process, you will rely on using design patterns established by other enterprise teams and previous engagements and align with the enterprise architecture roadmap.
12. You will review and provide feedback to developer approaches to promote consistency, scalability, reuse, robustness, security, performance, and quality.
13. You will validate new technologies and industry best practices to drive innovation and elevate engineering practices and guidelines.
14. You are a perpetual pragmatist and can bring concepts to reality.

What's in it for you?

You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!

You will have access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can shape your career growth with the support from diverse industry leaders.

You will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total wellbeing through our Tangerine benefits.

You belong here, we are equal and un-complicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.

You will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.