Description
Position Description:
Ready to join an outstanding culture that cares about diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, and gives the freedom to innovate, influence decisions, and chart an exciting career?
CGI is more than just an IT company. Be part of a team that supports the local community with the ability to draw on global best-in-class talent! Benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training and development programs, and flexible work schedules and locations.
Digital solution architects are the blueprint creator for an organization’s digital transformation. They bridge the gap between business strategy and technology implementation. They craft and develop technical architecture to integrate technology to produce a complete business solution. Their tasks range from application architecture to databases, as well as their logical interdependencies with business processes.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Work on high-functioning agile teams as the solution architect and participate in requirement design and architectural deliverables, as well as solving difficult problems with the team
• Provide architectural guidance and leadership to teams and individuals, as appropriate
• Give recommendations and creative alternatives to the business, work closely with the business development team, and work as a specialist to advise key partners on software development for a wide variety of business applications and projects
• Understand and respect procedures and policies such as project management, configuration management, and version management
• Build detailed architectures in line with the strategic and tactical objectives while respecting standard architectures and norms, draft and detail the structure, connections, and links with business processes, work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, applications interfaces, infrastructures, and network topology
• Be part of a dynamic organization that seeks to investigate new technologies, offering expertise, creativity, and a top-tier professional’s point of view to the team, translate architectural decisions into general concepts, and review and create artifacts to ensure harmony with the global architecture
• Staying current with technology trends, industry innovations, emerging best practices, being an advocate and champion for cutting edge technology
• Attend conferences and participate in the local development community to bring modern and relevant solutions to our clients, be innovative and forward-thinking when developing solutions
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Demonstrated ability in solution architecture, working with strategic or commercial applications and solutions
• Very good understanding of solution architecture concepts and methods
• Previous experience in application development in a hands-on technical role, such as developer or database administrator
• Experience in the design and development of integration components to integrate COTS products with enterprise services
• Experience modeling sophisticated business processes and translating them into understandable IT architectures and designs
• Experience in the design and development of systems and services focusing on scalability, high performance, and optimization
• Demonstrated experience in leading the development of solution architectures for the replacement of and/or integrating new solutions with legacy mainframe-based applications
• Proven experience in architecture planning, management, associated methods, and processes
• Experience with the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
• Demonstrated experience conducting and documenting assessments related to security and risk
Desired
• Degree in IT, computer science, software development, or another related field
• IT and architecture certifications (e.g., Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Architecture Certification, TOGAF)
• Hands-on development experience with:
• Front-end frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue
• Programing in .NET
• Relational database development, preference is SQL Server
• Implementing highly scalable solutions on Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Containers and platforms such as OpenShift
• Application deployment automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and/or Azure DevOps
• Setup and use of Git and GitHub
• Working in an agile development environment
• Setting up and configuring supporting technology and infrastructure such as proxies, web servers, certificates, etc.
• Experience leading a technical team
Skills:
- Leadership
- Solutions Architecture
- SQL
- Angular
- Vue.js
What you can expect from us:
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
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.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
