Solutions Architect

Description:

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Create solutions and design for projects to client’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our clients’ ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.

• Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.

• Work with product owners, architects, platform, and project teams to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.

• Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve target state.

• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.

• Provide leadership on key designs to ensure the long-term strategic goals are met as well as short-term project needs.

• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture and engineering.

• Peer review the design artifacts of others

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams, with members from both CGI, the client, and partners, to develop solution designs to complex problem domains.

• Work with clients to develop technical strategies and roadmaps, then present them to senior client leadership.

• Continually keep abreast of new developments in the wider industry and be able to apply them to deliver added value to clients.

• Mentor other architects in the organization into more senior roles.

• Ability to be 'hands-on' and help with code when required.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Minimum 3-5 years hands-on experience with design and implementation of integration solutions.

• Experience with both relational RDBMS and NOSQL concepts.

• Experience with both batch & real-time integration technologies, i.e. MFT, ETL, Kafka, WMB, Fuse, MQ, various API Gateway

• Experience with a variety of relevant technologies, including RESTFUL APIs (XML, JSON), SOAP APIs, and Micros Services.

• In-depth understanding of industry standard of building secure and scalable solutions to support internet facing APIs

• Experience implementing Web Services, SOA.

• Experience with implementing integrations to both On-premise and cloud infrastructure, i.e. AWS cloud platform.

• Excellent knowledge of architectural design patterns

• Experience with development tools, CICD and code automation technologies.

• Experience with Agile project methodology and tools such as Confluence and Jira.

• Experience delivering complex leading-edge solutions with the ability to dive in and out of the details when needed.

• Strong communication and time management skills. Positive attitude that fosters productivity in a team setting.

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to "own" the issue and solution and follow it through.

• Personal and/or Commercial Insurance experience