22 Oct
S.i. Systems
Toronto
Senior Solutions Architect to rebuild risk management systems on google cloud with one of our major banking clients- 35604
Location Address: Hybrid (1-2x/week on site on Tuesdays and Thursdays), Toronto
Contract Duration: until Oct 31st 2025 (Possibility of Extension)
Schedule Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Story Behind the Need
- Business group: GTA - Global Risk Management Technology
- The Solution Architect will be with GRM Engineering team to be responsible for projects to rebuilding retail risk management systems on google cloud. 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 management solutions on the cloud. 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.
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.
Must Have Skills:
- 10+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience in financial industry
- Deep understanding of retail banking business and related risk management practices
- Excel in persuasive communication and ability to lead and facilitate strategic discussion between multiple teams
- Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems in cloud. Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- 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
- Disciplined in development methodology and familiar with software development technologies and concepts.
Practical experience with systems design and specification for large scale applications.
Best vs Average: lot of Initiative, motivated candidate and Architectural knowledge & risk management
Degrees or certifications:
Candidate Review & Selection:
1st round - MS team with HM - 60mins
2nd round - optional if required by HM
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▶️ Senior Solutions Architect to rebuild risk management systems on google cloud with one of our major banking clients- 35604
🖊️ S.i. Systems
📍 Toronto