Job Title: Solutions Architect / Infrastructure Architect
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Pay range C$80 - 90/hr
Work Type: Hybrid, on-site twice a week
Work Location: Toronto, ON
Schedule: Monday - Friday Core Business Hours
Rotation Schedule: May need to work deployment hours (On call or on standby off business hours)
Summary Of Day-To-Day Responsibilities:

• The role also provides strategic guidance ensuring technology teams and business areas understand the architectural options and technology choices that account for total cost of ownership, Lead, design and/or develop an architecture framework including technology domain architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented.
• Develop enterprise or segment technology roadmaps and associated plans.
• Review project blueprints: The Segment Architect approves or vetoes blueprints based on alignment to enterprise standards.
• Advises on how best to design overall solutions. Oversee/define development specifications, technical requirements, and system performance objectives and identify system modifications required to meet objectives.
• Research/analyze business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within technology architecture.
• Provide expert consultation and participate as the top technical expert on the most high-risk and complex initiatives/projects.
• Provide insight and recommendations to develop and implement system architecture within business units and/or IT departments while creating awareness of the total cost of ownership.
• Influence vendors in product design through subject matter expertise and may develop and/or contribute to negotiations of third party contracts/agreements where applicable.
• Build consensus and facilitate collaboration and decision-making within/across business units/business leaders/IT professionals, vendors, and outsourced partners to ensure consistent application of IT strategy and compliance with architecture framework.
• Contribute to the development of project plans by providing input and manage projects/initiatives by directing assigned resources, communicating project status, and providing timely escalation of issues
• Ensure projects are compliant with technology domain architecture and design/operate processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards.
• Identify, recommend, source, negotiate, and implement emerging IT trends, developments, and improvements /solutions (buy/build / reuse).
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines.
• Apply industry/technical knowledge to provide solutions that increase business results and/or minimize risk.
• Conduct pre and post implementation reviews, ensuring all technical solutions have met business requirements.
• Protect/enhance the security, availability of technology, brand integrity, and shareholder value by establishing parameters for continued investment in technology solutions and by providing technical risk analysis and assessment.
• Provide guidance to technology teams and business partners to understand the architectural options and technology choices that account for a total cost of ownership, risk, and leverage strategic enterprise assets.
• Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective client solutions.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the team and business partners by sharing information, knowledge, and lessons learned on a regular basis. May coach, lead, and/or develop others.
• Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes customer service, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
• Lead in knowledge transfer meetings/forums with senior management, the team, other technical areas, and business unit's contributor role with expert knowledge of specific domain or broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as broader organization issues and relevant technology.
• Advanced and highly specialized knowledge of client applications, programming languages, industry best practices, business/organization, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design/solutions and may fulfill an IT governance role.
• Architectural specialist assigned to work autonomously on high-profile, complex and/or high-risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization.
• Provides technical leadership/consulting/direction to a larger team on all aspects of architecture to ensure advanced learning occurs.
• Foresees architectural issues / gaps and identifies emerging industry trends (i.e., future-focused).
• Influences product direction and integrates technology from an architectural perspective within the business environment; fulfills an IT governance role.
• Provides recommendations on value-added architectural improvements/enhancements.
• Architects may be assigned one or more areas of focus, e.g., Domains from Enterprise, Data, Application and Technology Architecture

Must Have:

• Solutions architect experience
• Solutions design experience
• CSA Certification
• ServiceNow
• Database management
• Network experience

Nice To Have

• CTA Designation
• Banking experience
• Consultancy experience
• Client experience

Experience

• 10+ years of experience

About The Company:

• Top 10 bank in Canada and North America offering comprehensive financial solutions. Providing retail, commercial, wealth management, and wholesale banking services, we help clients thrive in today's evolving market.

About GTT

• GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation's largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity!

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