Solution Architect

Inizio Partners Corp; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Inizio Partners Corp is seeking a Solution Architect on a contract basis for a large global professional services client. The role focuses on defining architectures across business, information, and technology domains and guiding delivery through architecture-driven trade-offs and PoCs.

Responsibilities include stakeholder communication, architecture governance, and ensuring alignment with the solution vision.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in software development
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design
• Experience with data management, data integration, and data transformation
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management
• Excellent client-facing, business consulting, and communication skills
• Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually
• Ability to explain and prove the differences, pros and cons of suggested design decisions
• Ability to influence senior client decision makers
• Develop long-lasting relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects
• Analysis of business, product and technology requirements
• Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools
• Infrastructure as a code tools
• Experience in Pre-sales, Proposal/Bid preparation
• Databricks experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication with
• Identify business goals and objectives
• Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints
• Elaborate business, information, and technology architectures mapping
• An elaborate architecture vision that satisfies architecturally significant requirements, through trade-off analysis, proof of concept implementation, and benchmarking
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes
• Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders
• Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy the solution architecture vision

Job description

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our client's team on a contract basis. C lient for this project is a large globalprofessional services firm.

Responsibilities

• Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication with;
• Identify business goals and objectives;
• Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints;
• Elaborate business, information, and technology architectures mapping;
• An elaborate architecture vision that satisfies architecturally significant requirements, through trade-off analysis, proof of concept implementation, and benchmarking.
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes;
• Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders;
• Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy the solution architecture vision.

Requirements

• Commercial experience in software development (more than 7 years);
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design (more than 3 years);
• Experience with data management, data integration, and data transformation approaches;
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration;
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning;
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management;

Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:

• Database theory;
• Code testing practices;

Practical experience with:

Business skills:

• Excellent client-facing, business consulting, and communication skills;
• Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually.
• Ability to explain and prove the differences, pros and cons of suggested design decisions.
• Ability to influence senior client decision makers;
• Develop long-lasting relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects;
• Analysis of business, product and technology requirements.

Certifications on:

Experience with:

• Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools;
• Infrastructure as a code tools
• Experience in Pre-sales, Proposal/Bid preparation;
• Databricks experience is a plus.

Personal skills:

• Ability to relate positively to and engage with a wide range of people
• Strong self-motivation, reliable and flexible team-player. High attention to details
• Always seeking to improve processes and suggest alternative better solutions