Solution Architect, Digital
Momentum Financial Services Group9 days ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end architectures for digital products, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
- Create architecture artifacts including context diagrams, sequence flows, integration maps, and decision records.
- Evaluate build, buy, and platform options based on business value, risk, and total cost of ownership.
- Prototype and validate architectural approaches to reduce delivery risk.
- Define secure authentication, authorization, encryption, data-residency, and secrets-management patterns.
- Design and verify non-functional requirements covering security, scalability, resilience, availability, observability, and performance.
- Lead architecture and design reviews and guide teams through implementation.
- Partner with product, engineering, QA, security, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and impediments and drive them to resolution.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance, mentoring, design coaching, and reusable architecture patterns.
- Contribute to technology roadmaps, platform strategy, and investment planning.
- Design pragmatic patterns for integrating AI and machine-learning capabilities into digital products.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve delivery speed, quality, and operational reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 12 years of professional software development or engineering experience.
- At least 6 years in a solution architect, technical architect, principal engineer, or comparable technical-leadership role.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade solutions using .NET and AWS.
- Strong hands-on backend and API development experience, ideally with C#, .NET, and ASP.NET Core.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native architecture, including serverless, containers, and event-driven design.
- Experience with AWS Lambda, ECS or EKS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Strong integration architecture experience involving event streaming, messaging, and third-party or vendor integrations.
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, data flows, and performance optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of React, Next.js, Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Experience with application security, identity and access management, observability, resiliency, and production support.
- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect, are preferred.
- Experience in financial services, payments, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.
- Experience using AI tools to improve architecture, documentation, and engineering productivity is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment balancing remote work with in-office collaboration.
- Health and dental plans with 100% of premiums covered, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Discretionary annual bonus based on individual performance and company success.
- Tuition assistance and professional-development reimbursement.
- Perkopolis discounts and rewards and recognition programs.
- Corporate head-office amenities including breakout rooms and snacks.
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About Momentum Financial Services Group
Momentum Financial Services Group (MFSG) provides alternative financial services—short-term and installment loans, check cashing, money transfers, foreign currency, and prepaid cards—to consumers and small businesses. The Toronto-based private company operates the Money Mart brand, Canada’s largest non-bank branch network, and serves customers across Canada and the United States through retail locations and digital channels. MFSG has more than 40 years of operating history.