33 Dundas Street West Toronto Ontario,M5G 3C2
This hybrid position will allow for a candidate to not only play a vital role in the development and implementation of solutions, but will be also involved in its socialization and adaption by the business sponsors and technology stakeholders. This role will allow a candidate to develop business and technical expertise in the Canadian Personal and Business Banking domain, be exposed to industry and leading-edge architectures, solution patterns and technologies and develop meaningful cross-functional relationships with other groups at BMO
Group Culture:
This candidate will be working with a team of the following make up:
A team of senior solution architects (FTE and contractors)
At team of Account Managers (AM), representing the business
Business Analysts (BA) to aid in the collection and clarification of application requirements.
The team is incredibly close-knit, collaborative and high performing.
Role Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Lead and manage technical solutions for enterprise programs, and portfolio projects
Build effective solutions based on business requirements, as clarified by AM's and BA's
Produce conceptual and detailed solution architectures to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through documentation of use case diagrams, component interaction diagrams, data flows diagrams and sequence diagrams, using a solution architecture authoring tool (iServer). iServer training and mentoring is provided.
Ensure adherence of the proposed solution architecture with all relevant internal standards and external regulations.
Manage trade-offs between speed to market, quality and financial impact
Work alongside Account Managers and Business Analysts to clarify application requirements
Attend requirements meetings and analysis meetings
Clarify/identify/validate impacted application components and requirements to account manager and BA, which are further extended to the business for approval
Work alongside the Enterprise Architecture team to gage the feasibility of proposed solution and application enhancements/creation.
Must-Have Skills:
5+ years of Solution Architect experience in a large, enterprise level environment
10+ years of experience in enterprise, application and information architecture design
5+ years of software development experience (no specific software development experience specified)
Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, databases, information warehouses and data modeling techniques
Strong experience with real-time and batch interface design and implementations, including sequence diagrams and documentation
Strong understanding of TOGAF framework
Strong experience designing and implementing micro-services
Strong experience with SOAP/XML and RESTFUL/JSON schema design and implementation
Strong experience with database structures and relational database design and modeling
Strong AWS solution architecture experience
Experience with legacy architecture/software such as IBM CICS
Previous banking/finance experience
Nice-to-Have Skills:
Experience working in an Agile environment
Soft Skills:
Strong communication skills, both oral and written are a MUST
Strong facilitation/negotiation skills are a MUST
Ability to influence members of management and advocate for a solution whilst facing criticism is a MUST
Strong critical thinking skills
Ability to work well with a team
Ability to work independently with little supervision and multi-task numerous initiatives.
Educational Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar field
TOGAF Certification or similar (preferred)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (preferred)
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