Senior Solutions Designer

Symbiotic Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbiotic Group seeks a Senior Solutions Designer to architect and enhance enterprise technology solutions. You will guide testing strategies, ensure quality across integration, performance, and accessibility, and align designs with security and privacy standards in healthcare contexts.

The role involves collaboration with architects, developers, and business stakeholders, driving CI/CD automation and Agile ceremonies while delivering scalable, compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and enhancing large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
• Experience with cloud technologies, containerization, orchestration, and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of application, infrastructure, hardware, and network design principles.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards, particularly FHIR.
• Experience overseeing solution implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience with CI/CD automation and Azure DevOps.
• Experience producing design artifacts and collaborating with enterprise architects.
• Experience working with security and privacy requirements in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on testing strategy, test plans, testing tools, and testing resource requirements.
• Plan and organize testing efforts for large systems, including system integration, specialized, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop test plans, test scripts, and test cases, and execute testing activities across system components.
• Execute functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Validate system functionality under a variety of business and technical scenarios.
• Identify, document, and track software defects using appropriate defect management tools.
• Collaborate with development teams to reproduce and resolve defects.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct performance, stress, and load testing activities.
• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards including AODA requirements.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, project managers, architects, and technical teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Maintain test documentation, quality metrics, user documentation, and release notes.
• Ensure testing and delivery processes align with regulatory and industry standards.
• Lead and coordinate the design, development, enhancement, and implementation of complex technology solutions.
• Translate business requirements into effective application and solution designs.
• Work with architecture, infrastructure, deployment, security, and privacy teams to ensure compliant solution delivery.
• Produce detailed design artifacts to support development and testing activities.
• Provide technical leadership, performance tuning recommendations, and continuous improvement guidance.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Containerization

Orchestration

Microservices

FHIR

CI/CD automation

Azure DevOps

Security & Privacy

Interoperability standards

Design patterns

Testing strategies

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Postman

JMeter

LoadRunner

ALM

JIRA

TestRail

Zephyr

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Solutions Designer with experience designing and enhancing complex enterprise technology solutions. This role requires expertise in cloud technologies, application design, testing strategies, Agile delivery, security, privacy, and healthcare interoperability standards. The successful candidate will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and ongoing support of large-scale solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on testing strategy, test plans, testing tools, and testing resource requirements.
  
• Plan and organize testing efforts for large systems, including system integration, specialized, and user acceptance testing.
  
• Develop test plans, test scripts, and test cases, and execute testing activities across system components.
  
• Execute functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
  
• Validate system functionality under a variety of business and technical scenarios.
  
• Identify, document, and track software defects using appropriate defect management tools.
  
• Collaborate with development teams to reproduce and resolve defects.
  
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Conduct performance, stress, and load testing activities.
  
• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards including AODA requirements.
  
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, project managers, architects, and technical teams.
  
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
  
• Maintain test documentation, quality metrics, user documentation, and release notes.
  
• Ensure testing and delivery processes align with regulatory and industry standards.
  
• Lead and coordinate the design, development, enhancement, and implementation of complex technology solutions.
  
• Translate business requirements into effective application and solution designs.
  
• Work with architecture, infrastructure, deployment, security, and privacy teams to ensure compliant solution delivery.
  
• Produce detailed design artifacts to support development and testing activities.
  
• Provide technical leadership, performance tuning recommendations, and continuous improvement guidance.
  

Technical Skills

• Experience designing, developing, and enhancing large-scale, high-profile technology solutions.
  
• Experience with cloud technologies, containerization, orchestration, and microservices.
  
• Strong knowledge of application, infrastructure, hardware, and network design principles.
  
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards, particularly FHIR.
  
• Experience overseeing solution implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  
• Experience with CI/CD automation and Azure DevOps.
  
• Experience producing design artifacts and collaborating with enterprise architects.
  
• Experience working with security and privacy requirements in enterprise environments.
  
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Visio, and SharePoint.
  

Quality Assurance & Testing Experience

• Experience planning, organizing, and executing testing initiatives.
  
• Experience with functional, non-functional, integration, regression, performance, load, and user acceptance testing.
  
• Experience creating test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test data.
  
• Experience with automation tools, defect management tools, and version control systems.
  
• Experience validating data integrity, migration, and transformation processes.
  
• Familiarity with Selenium, Cypress, Postman, JMeter, LoadRunner, ALM, JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar tools.
  
• Knowledge of SDLC methodologies and structured quality assurance practices.
  

General Skills

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
  
• Experience with risk management and issue management practices.
  
• Knowledge of technical analysis and data analysis methodologies.
  
• Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders and technical teams.
  
• Awareness of emerging technology trends and best practices.
  
• Demonstrated leadership and team collaboration abilities.
  
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships and meet tight deadlines.
  
• Strong customer service, organizational, and multitasking skills.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)

We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

• Digital Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
  
• Recruitment: Find The Right People You Need
  

Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.