Description
Position Description:
This role is hybrid and requires you to be in our Markham, ON office 2-3 times per week – subject to change at any time.
The purpose of the solution Architect role is to:
• Develop end to end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements.
• Identify impact to the system for the proposed changes and work with various stakeholders in quantify and qualifying the impact
• To identify the technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape
• Create framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
• Develop roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
• Support cost estimation and execution of the tech debt remediation
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to Aviva’s IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and governance.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Solutions and Assurance
o Create solutions and design for projects to meet Aviva’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance
o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions
o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals
o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state
o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes
o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases
o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.
o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.
o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
Technical Leadership
• Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company’s architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.
• Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions.
• Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines
• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture, and engineering
• Peer reviews the design artefacts of others
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required
• Proven experience in solution architecture, roadmaps and architecture design and implementation.
• Knowledge of wider application technologies stack, and Infrastructure knowledge
• Knowledge of cloud native and modern application architecture
• Experience in building roadmap with interim state.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (agile).
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence
• Good stakeholder and relationship management
• Leadership skills
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Skills:
- Financial Analysis
- Leadership
- Solutions Architecture
What you can expect from us:
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You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.
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