Location Address: Toronto, ON

Hybrid - Hybrid (1-2x/week on site on Tuesdays and Thursdays, might change to more days in future)

Contract Duration: 10 months

Possibility of extension: Yes

Conversion to FTE: Yes

Number of Positions: 1

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.

• Building, architecting, designing, and create transformation plan to modernize legacy systems to highly distributed global based systems.

• Review designs from network infrastructure, security, data, or application development perspective.

• Aligning solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identifying new shared capabilities and business opportunities.

• Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.

• Author architectural patterns to help assessment teams improve and develop their processes.

• Help drive the implementation of trusted policies and standards with the help internal teams such as Security, Infrastructure, Data, etc.

• Challenge the application team's way of thinking by implementing architectural design principles to improve the bank's security, resiliency and technology footprint.

• Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.

• Socialize with larger audiences using reporting, real-time dashboards, and hosting education sessions.

• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.

• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 10+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience in financial industry preferably in financial risk management.

2) Hands on experience with risk model lifecycle in financial industry. Nice to have AI/ML experience.

3) Excel in persuasive communication and ability to lead and facilitate strategic discussion between multiple teams

4) Experience integrating vendor platforms with internal applications in both on-prem and public cloud hosting. Knowledgeable of network infrastructure, security and resiliency patterns for solutions with 10TB+ data and complex integrations.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Knowledge of Model Development platforms such as SAS/SAS Viya vendor platform and integration pattern between GCP and Azure is a strong asset for this

• Good understanding of risk management function and capital management function.

• Experience of architecting a technology solution that will implement the trusted governance framework, policies and workflows.

• Experience with structured Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.

• Sound knowledge of various operating systems, databases, and technologies

• Ability to create designs and reference architectures for enterprise.

• Been responsible for the Implementation of a trusted governance model where architecture assessments are automated based on enterprise standards and policies.

• Proven work experience as a Solution Architect or similar role. Previous project management or business SME/architect experience is an asset.

• In-depth understanding of coding languages and logic structures

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with software engineering/data engineering in financial risk management. Need to have a lot of Initiative, motivated candidate and knowledgeable about model lifecycle and model ops.

Candidate Review & Selection

1st round - MS team/In-person with HM - 60mins

2nd round - optional if required by HM