Solution Architect - Digital & AI Products

Accenture PLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 83,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Solution Architect in Canada to design innovative digital solutions that improve operational performance, customer experience, and business outcomes. This role bridges business strategy, product management, technology architecture, and delivery from idea to execution.

The ideal candidate translates complex problems into scalable designs, partners with Product Managers and Engineering, defines integration strategies, and ensures security, governance, and reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Systems Architecture, Enterprise Applications, or Product Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience solutioning for API integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures for digital products and platforms.
• Develop business process flows, capability maps, architecture diagrams, and solution blueprints.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define integration strategies across enterprise applications, platforms, APIs, and third‑party systems.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend fit‑for‑purpose solutions.
• Support AI, analytics, automation, and data‑driven solution initiatives.
• Ensure architecture decisions consider scalability, security, governance, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Guide delivery teams through implementation and deployment.
• Communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Skills

Distributed systems

Stakeholder management

Structured problem solving

Architecture artifacts

Innovation

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

APIs

Job description

In our Service Supply Chain offering, we leverage a combination of proprietary technology and client systems to develop, execute, and deliver BPaaS (business process as a service) or Managed Service solutions across the service lifecycle: Plan, Deliver, and Recover. Join our dynamic Service Supply Chain (SSC) team and be at the forefront of helping world class organizations unlock their full potential. Imagine a career where your innovative work makes a real impact, and every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth. We're on the lookout for passionate, talented individuals ready to make a difference.

About the Role

We are seeking a Solution Architect to design innovative digital solutions that help organizations improve operational performance, customer experience, and business outcomes. This role bridges business strategy, product management, technology architecture, and implementation delivery. You will translate complex business problems into scalable technology solutions by connecting business objectives, architecture decisions, and implementation trade-offs. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and hands‑on problem solver who can simplify complexity and guide organizations from idea to execution.

What You'll Do

You will be expected to answer critical questions such as: What business problem are we solving? How does the solution align with broader product and technology strategies? What capabilities are required to achieve the desired outcomes? Which systems, platforms, and data sources should be involved? How should systems integrate and exchange information? What are the trade‑offs between cost, speed, risk, scalability, and maintainability?

Core Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures for digital products and platforms.
• Develop business process flows, capability maps, architecture diagrams, and solution blueprints.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define integration strategies across enterprise applications, platforms, APIs, and third‑party systems.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend fit‑for‑purpose solutions.
• Support AI, analytics, automation, and data‑driven solution initiatives.
• Ensure architecture decisions consider scalability, security, governance, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Guide delivery teams through implementation and deployment.
• Communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Systems Architecture, Enterprise Applications, or Product Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience solutioning for API integrations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI, machine learning, analytics platforms, and intelligent automation.
• Knowledge of supply chain, logistics, service operations, field service, or enterprise workflow technologies.
• Experience with cloud‑native architectures and modern software patterns.
• Knowledge of data governance, responsible AI, security, and compliance requirements.
• Agile delivery and product development experience.

Professional Skills Requirements

• Experience designing distributed systems and enterprise integrations
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Innovation and value creation
• Structured problem solving
• Experience creating architecture artifacts and process maps

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate. Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $82,600 to $132,600

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.

We are a talent‑and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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Bring your incredible skills and join our global team of innovators. We come together from different backgrounds across the world and work with the latest technologies to create value and growth for our clients. With us, you’ll continue to learn and grow so you can advance in your career. Your personal dreams and ambitions are just as important to us; that’s why we offer support any way we can—when you thrive, we all thrive.