Solutions Architect (Individual Wealth - Application Delivery)
The Canada Life Assurance Company1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and facilitate solution architectures that leverage enterprise capabilities, processes, technology, data, and people.
- Consult with business partners, sponsors, stakeholders, and delivery teams on technical solutions.
- Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts for applications, projects, and application support.
- Drive architectural decisions and establish the technical vision and direction for solutions.
- Develop candidate architecture solutions, roadmaps, and proposals aligned with business plans.
- Ensure quality designs when addressing infrastructure and development issues.
- Identify opportunities to improve organizational efficiency and incorporate new technology patterns and ways of working.
- Collaborate with enterprise and portfolio architects and mentor less experienced architects and developers/engineers.
- Support application modernization and design compliant solutions across business, information, application, technology, and security architecture disciplines.
- Perform occasional hands-on development during solution delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 7 years of related experience in technology environments.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working as an architect on large-scale projects.
- Experience leading architecture activities with Enterprise Architects or Portfolio Architects.
- Experience mentoring less experienced architects and developers/engineers.
- Experience in Wealth Management technology ecosystems and the financial services industry.
- Experience with web technologies, networking, application modernization, virtualization, service architecture, and cloud computing.
- Development experience with RDBMS, modern programming languages and frameworks, services, SDLC, and automation.
- Experience with architectural modeling languages and frameworks such as UML, TOGAF, ArchiMate, the 4+1 View Model, and LeanIX.
- Experience across business, information/data, application, technology, and security architecture disciplines.
- Experience with Java Application Servers and SSO is an asset.
- TOGAF Level 1 and 2 certification and one or more BAITS domain certifications are preferred or required as listed qualifications.
- Ability to analyze business and technical concepts, communicate high-level solutions, simplify complex ideas, and collaborate across business functions.
- Ability to evaluate Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment and work within organizational policies, practices, and standards.
Benefits
- Permanent full-time employment with hybrid work arrangement.
- Career advancement opportunities, industry-leading learning programs, and up to $2,000 annually for education reimbursement.
- Flexible health and dental benefits and a $5,000 mental health benefit.
- Vacation, personal days, and a volunteer day for community involvement.
- Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program, and additional investment options.
- Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts, Employee Resource Groups, mentorship programs, social clubs, and events.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About The Canada Life Assurance Company
The Canada Life Assurance Company provides life, health, disability, and group benefits insurance, plus retirement and wealth management products for individuals and employers across Canada. It generates revenue through premiums, investment management fees, and group plan administration. Headquartered in Toronto, it is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and part of the Power Corporation group of companies, serving both retail and workplace markets nationwide.