Solutions Architect

Quix; United States; Remote; USD 84,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within Canada

Collaborative cross-team environment

Job summary

Quix is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead technical direction for complex enterprise projects in a remote-capable role across Canada. You will guide work from discovery and architecture through implementation, balancing reliability and operational needs while communicating tradeoffs to both technical and executive audiences.

The role emphasizes producing clear architecture documentation and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable designs.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in solutions or enterprise architecture or senior technical leadership.
• Broad knowledge of cloud infrastructure, application architecture, integration patterns, and data systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous needs into implementable designs and produce architecture docs.
• Strong communication across business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with stakeholders to understand existing systems, objectives, and constraints.
• Design architectures that address integration, scale, security, and operations.
• Create solution briefs, component diagrams, data flow maps, and decision records.
• Explain technology choices and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
• Work with engineering, cloud, data, and delivery teams to check that designs are practical.
• Contribute to project scope, risk assessment, phased roadmaps, and implementation adjustments.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Application architecture

Data systems

Technical leadership

Job description

Role overview

Lead technical direction on complex enterprise projects, turning business needs and technical constraints into solution designs that teams can deliver. You’ll guide work from discovery and architecture through implementation, helping ensure decisions account for reliability and operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with stakeholders to understand existing systems, objectives, and constraints.
• Design architectures that address integration, scale, security, and operations.
• Create solution briefs, component diagrams, data flow maps, and decision records.
• Explain technology choices and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
• Work with engineering, cloud, data, and delivery teams to check that designs are practical.
• Contribute to project scope, risk assessment, phased roadmaps, and implementation adjustments.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in solutions or enterprise architecture, or a senior technical leadership role.
• Broad knowledge of cloud infrastructure, application architecture, integration patterns, and data systems.
• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation and translate ambiguous needs into implementable designs.
• Strong communication skills for working across business and technical stakeholders.

Benefits and work setup

Full-time role, based in Toronto or Montréal, or remote within Canada.