Solutions Architect:
On behalf of our client in the financial services sector, Procom is searching for a Solutions Architect for a 12-month contract. This position is hybrid in Toronto (4 days per week onsite).
Solutions Architect - Job Description:
The Solutions Architect V will support business-as-usual initiatives and strategic architecture work, helping deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions aligned to enterprise technology standards. This role focuses on solution architecture, architectural governance, and cloud-first design for high-throughput eventing/messaging platforms.
Solutions Architect - Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain solution architecture frameworks and designs aligned to enterprise standards, security patterns, and guiding principles.
- Evaluate business requirements and recommend optimal architecture options, including target-state roadmaps and executive-level summaries.
- Review detailed solution designs for compliance with architecture and security standards; provide architecture/design sign-off as required.
- Partner with other architects and security stakeholders to assess risks and confirm secure solution designs.
- Provide project-level architecture/design documentation, assessments of options, and architectural governance support.
- Contribute to project planning (scope, estimates, documentation) and provide timely escalation of issues and risks.
- Participate as a subject matter expert on moderate-to-high risk/complex initiatives; support pre- and post-implementation reviews.
- Stay current on emerging technologies and best practices to improve architecture standards, patterns, and frameworks.
Solutions Architect - Mandatory Skills:
- Azure cloud architecture experience.
- Experience designing and tuning high-throughput eventing and/or messaging systems.
- Kafka experience (including Confluent Cloud).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently.
Solutions Architect – Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Amazon Connect experience.
- Experience with additional cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP).
Solutions Architect V – Assignment Length:
This is a 12-month contract (extension possible; conversion possible).
Solutions Architect - Start Date:
ASAP.
Solutions Architect - Assignment Location:
Toronto, Ontario, hybrid (4 days per week onsite).
