Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: GTA Business Support & Engineering
• Project: multiple projects within Capital Markets and Core banking area
• The Senior Solutions Architect ensures that the applications architecture and infrastructure supporting major, highly complex applications are designed to meet evolving business requirements and meet standards for reliability, scalability and availability. The incumbent will provide architecture and technology guidance on all projects to ensure consistency in approaches and to optimize technology synergy. The Solutions Architect also provides expertise and counsel ensuring technology teams and business areas understand all the options and technology choices in support of their business. The Solutions Architect is a technology and business expert with strong leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to influence others.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to understand the end-to-end business for Core banking, and will be interacting with several senior architects and other stakeholders.

Typical Day in Role:

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
• Acts as a thought partner for senior leaders across the group - within the context of strategic technology projects and on an ongoing basis
• Recommends end-to-end technology design solutions and takes full accountability for the architecture of a solution
• Lead a wide range of technology strategy initiatives such as Applications rationalization, Cloud Migration, Legacy modernization. Synthesize findings and present clear recommendations and roadmaps ensure impactful project outcomes to senior leaders within GBM
• Ensures simplification of the technology application landscape there by achieving efficiency gains in terms cost, revenue and resources while ensuring uncompromised delivery of business value to clients.
• Keeps the Bank safe by ensuring right technology, architecture, data, and infrastructure choices are made that prevents malicious attacks against the Bank's technology infrastructure.
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Client's Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of software engineering industry experience
• 5+ Experience working in the banking sector
• 2+ years of Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps
• 2+ years of Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global based systems.
• Experience with creating architecture presentations, solution diagrams, and presenting to stakeholders

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience in modernizing legacy systems or similar transformational initiatives
• Experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or application development

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication
• Excellent influencing skills with the ability to build and foster relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, strategic technology partners and external vendors.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

Education:

• Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• The Solution Architect provides expert advice and counsel to Corporate, Business Partner and/or IT areas on complex issues related to area of specialty.
• This position may have multiple concurrent initiatives occurring at any one time.
• The incumbent must ensure high availability, integrity and reliability of programs developed where the consequences of error could expose the Bank to a significant loss or undue risk.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 2 rounds:

o 1st round - architect - 30 mins - Teams Video (experience related questions)
o 2nd round - HM + Chief architect - 30 mins - in-perso
Please note:

• AI is not used to screen, assess, or select candidates.

Job Details
13929
Contract
6 months
Toronto
Recruiter
Kiran Kaur
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