Solution Architect

ProViso Staffing; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ProViso Staffing seeks a Solution Architect in Toronto for a 10-month contract in Global Risk Management Technology. The role involves analyzing requirements, redesigning complex systems, and liaising between teams. Candidates must have extensive software engineering experience in financial risk management, excellent communication, and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience in financial industry.
• Hands-on experience with risk model lifecycle, AI/ML experience is nice to have.
• Knowledgeable of network infrastructure and complex integrations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex business requirements and generate technical specifications.
• Build and modernize legacy systems to global distributed systems.
• Inform stakeholders about issues with current technical solutions.

Skills

Persuasive communication

Leadership

Conflict resolution

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Job description

Story Behind the Need:

• 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 forward thinking individuals who embrace change, are passionate about their profession, are flexible, curious, continuous learners and who want to achieve challenging goals.
• Reason: Project Requirement to support Credit Risk Model systems

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have exposure to Model/ML/AI Ops practice with Cloud integration of SaaS vendor platforms.

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
• Building, architecting, designing, and create 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

Soft Skills Required:

• Conflict resolution – Facilitate agreement across stakeholders.
• Curiosity – Able to extract information from technology team to come up with holistic end to end picture.
• Presentation – Able present materials in very concise manner for senior leadership
• Leadership – excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills to build consensus and obtain co-operation from development teams and technology engineering leaders

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.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1st round – MS team/In-person with HM – 60mins
• 2nd round – optional if required by HM

Job Details

13274

Contract

10 months

Toronto