Lead Process Engineer - Plastics Industry

NPA WorldWide; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Toronto is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect to lead the transformation to cloud-based solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in full stack development, AWS, and modern architecture design. This role offers a chance to work on innovative projects and significantly impact the company's transformation journey.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development or architect experience.
• Experience designing enterprise systems.
• Expertise in cloud patterns and application architecture.
• Strong background in AWS ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cloud services for multiple device types.
• Drive complete solution from end-to-end.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and product managers.

Skills

Full stack development

AWS

REST Services

C#.NET

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

Agile/Scrum

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Chef

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Why a Great Opportunity

Pioneer in the FinTech space. Bank has grown from $40B in assets to $116B in assets in 3 years during COVID.

Huge opportunity for upward mobility.

Job Description

Sr. Solutions Architect

Description

Our business is undergoing transformation and shift towards using public cloud and we need experienced architects to help us in moving the monolithic systems to modern cloud-based solutions.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for researching and recommending specific systems, applications, data, or process designs for large or complex cloud infrastructure solutions.

In instances where the solution does not exist, you will be relied upon to invent a unique solution. They design, develop, and analyze overall architecture to determine that hardware, software and data architecture solutions meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security needs.

Be a key contributor on architectural governance, decisions related to projects, and participate as part of a cross functional architecture decision group both collaboratively within Intel and as an externally regarded leader in the space.

About the role :

• Design and development of cloud services consumed across device form factors from IoT to mobile to PCs and web.
• Research, design and development of next generation Applications supporting users across security, privacy, identity, transactions and data.
• Responsible for driving the complete solution end-to-end, including on public cloud PaaS / Serverless technologies, using required SQL / NoSQL data stores with deep understanding of the technologies, the data model and the access patterns.
• Research and identify the right tools and technology stack based on scalability, latency and performance needs.
• Assess technical feasibility by building rapid PoCs (Proof of Concept), find technological solutions for gaps, and create strategic IP as necessary.
• Work closely with User Experience designers and product owners to translate specs into consumer facing functionality
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams, product managers, designers, user researchers, business unit managers, marketing executives, and customers.
• Be well versed in taking teams from legacy to modern architecture in production
• Ability to learn & master new business domain to drive the right design
• Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment and achieve results amidst constraints.

About you :

• Hands-on experience of full stack development of high performing, scalable cloud applications using various cloud development stacks.
• Proven experience in building solution using AWS platform.
• Deep skills in REST Services based on Serverless FaaS or with C#.NET, Golang, Python
• Understanding and experience working with containerization (Kubernetes based) and orchestration solutions including OpenShift, EKS / Fargate
• Deep understanding of best design and software engineering practices – design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security, privacy, identity protection.
• Proven experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment.
• Architect and design leading solutions with a strong focus on security, performance and scalability. Hands on experience with TDD is a plus.
• Experience with Security, Privacy, Identity concepts is a plus.
• Experience working in FinTechs & with different banking applications is a strong plus
• Extraordinary communication & presentation skills.
• Experience working with Data assets such as MDM, EDW and Data Lake is a plus
• Ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms for all levels of organization
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience working with a distributed team
• Your heart at the right place, good sense of humor, live our values, and ability to form connections with the people you work with

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree
• At least 8 years of software development, solutions architect, or architect experience
• At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise systems
• At least 7 years of experience in application architecture, design patterns, and cloud patterns

Qualifications :

• Masters Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience with architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
• 5+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems including AWS, GCP or Azure
• 10+ years architecting highly scalable and reliable back-end systems in production
• 2+ years experience leveraging DevOps and building CI / CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar

Further Qualifications :

• Banking or Financial Services with a preference for commercial banking but not required. Strong experience in the AWS ecosystem is required.
• Strong experience in Solution Architecture or Solution Engineering background and Agile Development and an understanding of best practices for security, privacy and identity protection.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree
• At least 8 years of software development, solutions architect, or architect experience
• At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise systems
• At least 7 years of experience in application architecture, design patterns, and cloud patterns

Qualifications :

• Masters Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience with architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
• 5+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems including AWS, GCP or Azure
• 10+ years architecting highly scalable and reliable back-end systems in production
• 2+ years experience leveraging DevOps and building CI / CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation templates, GitHub, and Sonar