Senior Solution Architect

• Strategic Planning & Rationalization: Define and maintain metrics that reflect the condition of software applications, ensuring alignment with our digital strategy and target state architecture
• Architecture Blueprints: Develop, update, and maintain the architecture evolution roadmap (1-5 years), including as-is and target states to guide future projects
• Technical Roadmap: Recommend upgrades, maintenance, replacement, or retirement actions to measurably reduce technical debt and ensure application portfolio optimization
• Solution Design: Create comprehensive solution design documents, ensuring robust interoperability, secure network integrity, and conformance to quality assurance and security principles
• Governance & Compliance: Review design documents for new or upgraded projects to ensure adherence to architectural policies, standards, and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requirements
• Data & Integration Architecture: Develop logical data models and manage data handling processes, including up/downstream interfaces and data accountability
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance to platform teams through mentoring and coaching, and conduct architecture reviews to recommend performance and scalability improvements
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with IT leadership and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into actionable technical plans

• University or college graduate in Computer Science, with a post-bachelor's certificate/diploma in Application Development or a related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of advanced development experience, including expertise in ITIL, COBIT, application development, and spatial database modeling/design
• Proven experience in architecting, designing, and implementing high-performance, scalable enterprise-level systems
• Expert knowledge of Java, C#, or .NET, along with industry-standard technologies including XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML5, SOAP/REST Web Services, and application/web servers
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Analysis, Design patterns, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Strong understanding of technology asset life cycles, including performance management, preventive maintenance, and security best practices
• Highly developed writing skills with the ability to author complex specification documents, blueprints, and proposals

Experience with application portfolio rationalization and optimization initiatives is highly preferred

• Professional Growth: Work at the intersection of enterprise architecture, risk management, and modern software development
• Hybrid Flexibility: A balanced onsite/remote schedule based in Brampton
• Transformative Impact: Directly contribute to the measurable reduction of technical debt and the modernization of mission-critical systems