Solutions Architect

Blanc Labs Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services technology firm is seeking a seasoned architect to design and deliver cloud solutions. Responsibilities include leading architecture practices, developing solutions with a focus on AWS and Azure, and ensuring best practices in data processing and integration. The ideal candidate has significant experience in application architecture and a background in FinTech. This role offers the opportunity to work on transformative projects with a diverse technical team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in cloud infrastructure and application architecture in AWS.
• 12+ years of experience as an application architect.
• 5+ years of experience in FinTech, Financial Services, or Banking.
• Hands-on experience developing Multi-tenant SaaS platforms, REST APIs, and API governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect cloud solutions for financial services.
• Develop application architecture vision and design.
• Lead the architecture practice at Blanc Labs.
• Document architecture and present to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Application architecture

System integration

Java

Microservices

Data architecture

APIs

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

Responsible for the architecture and design of several critical financial services projects working with the technical teams, client technical and client business stakeholders, and project management. Accountable for the technical delivery of the solution together with tech leads. Solutions will have a focus on enterprise integration, cloud migration, legacy modernization, large number of data sources, microservices, APIs, security, and scalability concerns. The candidate must be able to work as a hands-on architect and a systems integrator pulling a solution together for clients working with a multitude of partners, vendors, consultants, contractors, etc.

Responsibilities :

• Architect cloud solutions in financial services to create products / platforms and client projects in Google (GCP), Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure).
• Deliver the architecture of transformational projects and develop repeatable patterns and leading practices, designing large-scale data processing systems, and optimizing data pipelines.
• Apply a broad experience of system architectures, application technologies, data architectures, and infrastructures to support specific IT initiatives.
• Develop application architecture vision, strategy, and design direction and provide technology proposals for delivering business capabilities.
• Analyze solutions and technologies and make recommendations based on knowledge of the customer / organization current and future business needs.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, vendors, and partners to keep on track for core technologies initiatives.
• Architect solutions based on performance, latency, nonfunctional requirements, and information security best practices, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational reliability.
• Apply the enterprise architecture and technology governance to our solutions, bringing in emerging and innovative technologies to be applied to architecture of our new solutions.
• Document architecture of the solution in words or Confluence and write all technical aspects of design and architecture.
• Lead the architecture practice at Blanc Labs and drive the digital transformation architecture and digital capabilities.
• Design the financial services products based on product strategies to achieve an optimal cost-effective technology solution.
• Architect solutions that hold large datasets and deal with relational or nonrelational databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.

Work Experience Requirements

4+ years solid experience in cloud infrastructure and application architecture in AWS with good knowledge of Azure and GCP.

12+ years of experience as an application architect.

5+ years of experience in FinTech, Financial Services, or Banking is required.

5+ years of hands-on system integration experience in large enterprises.

Hands-on experience developing Multi-tenant SaaS platforms, REST APIs, Open API specifications, API Gateway for governance and security (oAuth, Tokenization, Encryption) of microservices.

Development experience with one or more of Java, .Net, Spring, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular or similar programming languages using containers (DevOps pipeline, Docker / Kubernetes).

Strong knowledge of Data architecture including; Data Governance, Data Modeling (Data Vault, Dimensional, Normal Form) and database design (RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop), Data Classification, Data Integration, Enterprise Data and Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Data Security.

Ability to drive workshops with customer IT and business groups.

Leverage the latest technologies when building out APIs such as NoSQL databases, serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP) and established software and design patterns. API management solutions (such as Mule or Axway).

Strong understanding of various enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF).

Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Expert in PowerPoint slides, technical documentation, and drawing architecture diagrams.

Technologies :

Angular, React or Node.js

JavaScript, HTML / CSS

Python and Python frameworks

Java or C#

Microservices architecture

SQL / NoSQL architectures, Hadoop clusters, Data Lakes

AI / ML experience

Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)

WebSocket / REST APIs / API Management

Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code best practices

AWS EKS, Cloud Formation, ECS

SAML, OAuth, OpenID

Docker / Kubernetes

JIRA, Confluence

CI / CD pipeline (Jenkins)

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