Solutions Architect (API)
The Canada Life Assurance Company3 days ago
London, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop API and integration strategies and roadmaps aligned with business-unit delivery and enterprise architecture patterns.
- Own architectural decisions and lead the technical vision and design for integration solutions.
- Develop and maintain solution architecture and detailed solution design views.
- Support technology discovery, early-stage assessments, and proof-of-concepts.
- Assess risks, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
- Validate business requirements, assumptions, and solution options.
- Advise and guide business and technology stakeholders as a trusted architectural advisor.
- Provide coaching and mentorship to the development team.
- Build collaborative relationships across geographies and business functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years of multidisciplinary experience in a large, complex organization; financial-services experience is preferred.
- Experience working and delivering within an agile team.
- Expert knowledge of API integration patterns and authentication methods.
- Strong stakeholder relationship-building skills across multiple geographies and business functions.
- Exceptional communication skills for conveying high-level concepts, solutions, and outcomes to technology and business teams.
- Ability to take initiative, operate comfortably amid ambiguity, challenge technical constraints, and pursue iterative solutions.
- Reliability Status Security Clearance, completed as a condition of employment before access to Protected B information, assets, or work sites.
Benefits
- Permanent full-time employment with hybrid work arrangements.
- Career advancement opportunities, industry-leading learning programs, and up to $2,000 annually for education reimbursement.
- Flexible health and dental benefits plus 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.
- Security-check submission costs are covered by Canada Life.
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.