Solution Architect

LanceSoft Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Solution Architect with strong experience in software and data engineering within financial risk management. This high-impact role involves analyzing complex requirements, architecting solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance risk modeling systems. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and extensive experience in the financial industry, demonstrating initiative and a deep understanding of the model lifecycle and governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering in the financial industry.
• Hands-on experience with risk model lifecycle.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages and logic structures.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business requirements and generate technical specifications.
• Architect and design systems to modernize legacy systems.
• Communicate issues with current technical solutions effectively.

Skills

Software Engineering

Data Engineering

Financial Risk Management

Persuasive Communication

Integration Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

SAS/SAS Viya

GCP

Azure

Job description

Description:

• Business group: MET – Global Risk Management Technology
• Project: Onboarding contractor to handle architecture deliverables for GRM's RESL projects.
• The Solution Architect will be with GRM Engineering team to be responsible for projects to rebuilding retail risk management systems that serve model development, model validation, model risk governance teams in Risk Management in a holistic manner.
• This role is a high-impact role responsible for managing a set of tasks and techniques working as a liaison among various stakeholders.
• The SA needs to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organization, and recommend technical / business solutions that enable the future state the risk modelling solutions.
• We are looking for a forward-thinking individual who embrace change, are passionate about their profession, are flexible, curious, continuous learners and who want to achieve challenging goals.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
• Building, architecting, designing, and creating transformation plan to modernize legacy systems to highly distributed global based systems.
• Review designs from network infrastructure, security, data, or application development perspective.
• Aligning solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities.
• Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Author architectural patterns to help assessment teams improve and develop their processes.
• Help drive the implementation of trusted policies and standards with the help internal teams such as Security, Infrastructure, Data, etc.
• Challenge the application team’s way of thinking by implementing architectural design principles to improve the bank’s security, resiliency and technology footprint.
• Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• Socialize with larger audiences using reporting, real-time dashboards, and hosting education sessions.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience in financial industry preferably in financial risk management.
• Hands on experience with risk model lifecycle in financial industry. Nice to have AI/ML experience.
• Excel in persuasive communication and ability to lead and facilitate strategic discussion between multiple teams
• Experience integrating vendor platforms with internal applications in both on-prem and public cloud hosting. Knowledgeable of network infrastructure, security and resiliency patterns for solutions with 10TB+ data and complex integrations.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Knowledge of Model Development platforms such as SAS/SAS Viya vendor platform and integration pattern between GCP and Azure is a strong asset for this
• Good understanding of risk management function and capital management function.
• Experience of architecting a technology solution that will implement the trusted governance framework, policies and workflows.
• Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems, databases, and technologies
• Ability to create designs and reference architectures for enterprise.
• Been responsible for the Implementation of a trusted governance model where architecture assessments are automated based on enterprise standards and policies.
• Proven work experience as a Solution Architect or similar role. Previous project management or business SME/architect experience is an asset.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages and logic structures

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as finance, commerce, mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, computer engineering or related field required

Best VS. Average Candidate:
The ideal candidate will have strong experience with software engineering/data engineering in financial risk management. Need to have a lot of Initiative, motivated candidate and knowledgeable about model lifecycle and model ops.