Job Description
Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 3 days a week)
Company: Cuatro Consulting Inc.
Job Type: Full-time
Company Description:
Cuatro Consulting Inc., located in Toronto, ON, specializes in Business and Technology Transformation services, driving innovation and sustainability for businesses. We help organizations navigate complex challenges and achieve their strategic goals with tailored, cutting-edge solutions. In addition to consulting, we operate eStaff Agency, which provides industry-specific IT talent for efficient project staffing. We focus on delivering top-tier professionals, ensuring that our clients have the right expertise to drive success in their projects.
IWIS AN technology group is looking to hire a Cloud Solution Architect reporting to AVP, IWIS AN technology. The Solution Architect will collaborate with their Portfolio & Technology teams as well as business leaders, sponsors, and stakeholders to develop solution designs and technology roadmaps. They will work to define and maintain architecture artifacts for supporting project delivery and application support and lead technical vision and direction for solutions, ensuring consistency with overall enterprise and portfolio architecture that may at times include hands-on development (e.g. Proof of Concept and project development). The Solution Architect will also have an opportunity to effect change within the organization by incorporating new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.
What you will do
- Design, define and facilitate a solution architecture that leverages enterprise capabilities and efficient usage of process, technology, data, and people to align these capabilities.
- Leverage organizational standards and architecture guiding principles to define infrastructure non-functional requirements and assure technical solution adherence to these guidelines.
- Leads the definition of and maintains the technical architecture(s) in collaboration with EA for the architectural decisions, solution architecture, technical vision and supports the development of technology roadmaps.
- Focal point for significant infrastructure and development issues ensuring quality designs.
- Proactively identifies opportunities where solutions can enhance organizational efficiency.
- Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends.
- Fosters a high-performance culture for staff in the architecture team and engineering.
- Works closely with all team members to create solutions that accommodates future architectural changes and designs.
What you will bring
- Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in complex IT environments especially in the areas of application development and integrations.
- 5+ years of experience in hands-on cloud solution architecture and solution design with good understanding of Enterprise Design Patterns
- Experience working with at least one of the major public cloud providers (Azure, AWS) and a willingness to continue to expand your knowledge.
- Experience in migrating on-premises legacy application into cloud (monolith or microservices).
- Experience in the financial services industry or in a similar complex and regulated industry.
- Experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Infrastructure as Code (IaC); Automation Platforms; Cloud service offering IaaS & PaaS-based architectures.
- Experience with Container platforms.
- Knowledge of Microservices architecture, PaaS-based architectures and SaaS-based applications; Experience designing and leveraging Cloud PaaS and SaaS solutions.
- Knowledge with CI/CD tooling such as Gitlab, Git, Veracode, Vault etc.
- Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, ArchiMate, 4+1 View Model, etc.), architecture practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines.
- Values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to utilize an iterative or agile approach.
- Advanced level of analysis of the big picture while maintaining a level of detail appropriate to the context of a variety of situations.
- Ability to build and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions as well as with vendors
Assets
- Knowledge working with technologies such as Terraform, Ansible or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Experience in, and understanding of, Scrum, Kanban and Agile values and principles
- Understanding of continuous architecture and value stream approach to business solutions
- Experience in application development using SDLC and technologies like React. NetCore
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