ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - HYBRID

Green Shield Canada • Toronto, ON

49d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Modernization Enterprise Architect, you will play a pivotal role in re-designing our products and re-imagining legacy applications to leverage modern software engineering patterns and cloud native technologies. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture, you will lead by example, providing guidance, expertise, and strategic direction to ensure alignment between technology solutions and business objectives. Your responsibilities will encompass a broad spectrum of activities aimed at fostering innovation, mitigating risks, and providing future looking applications design covering Major AOP projects and other tactical projects that aid in sales and growth.

Requirements

• University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Recent development experience, and 5 years' experience as a solution architect, technical lead, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with designing and working with microservices architecture, including multiple API gateways across GCP and Azure supporting multiple customer segments (B2C, B2B, B2B2C, Government).
• There are several technologies employed: PowerBuilder, C#, WPF, .NET4.5, C++, Nuget, Documaker, HashiCorp, Dynatrace, Oracle, Postgres, Apigee, CloudRun, Azure B2C, ADO, Github, Visual Studio 2022, Dapper, Node.j.s, Kubernetes, REST API, .Netcore, Angular, node.js, javascript, jquery, json, MoveIT, CoPilot,
• Expertise in engaging with senior business and technology leaders to ensure alignment between technology solutions and business initiatives with the least amount of technical debt incurred.
• Self starter with a strong sense of ownership around delivery and adherence to SSDLC best practices, and actively refactoring technical debt to improve overall technical currency.
• Experience with Agile development and CI/CD methodologies, including supporting platforms such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, or Jira.
• Experience architecting robust and cost-effective solutions for both public cloud and on-premises hosting, with specific experience in GCP or Microsoft Azure leveraging diverse technical operating models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Experience in leading decommissioning of technology as part of modernizing and consolidating technologies and business capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability in conceptual architecture and design, with exceptional analytical and abstract thinking skills by constructing a Detailed Level Solution Architecture and presenting them to the ARB voting forums, for the purposes of reusability.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation across the logical enterprise architecture practice.
• Clear and effective written and oral communication skills and can communicate with all levels of internal and external delivery/business stakeholders.
• Proficiency in English is required for this position.
• GS supports diversity, equity and inclusion in our teams and communities, and we value the unique contributions made by all.

Nice To Haves

• engage with the AI driven projects that support automation through the use of agentic AI

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains the solution architecture blueprints and master architecture views for multiples products across all lines of business – Insurance, Administration, Health and Cares.
• Strong system design background in architecting complex solutions leveraging hybrid cloud postures and diverse set of technologies.
• Oversee developers and integration activities, clarify, answer questions and help to resolve issues as they arise.
• Identify potential issues between systems and business specifications and propose new working solutions.
• Support development team to formulate overall solution strategies and roadmaps.
• Conduct research by considering current infrastructure asset, opportunities and information security for applications improvement and integration.
• Examine functional specifications and translate them into system guidelines that shape project development.
• Conduct product evaluations and/or develop proof of concept (PoC) on new products and concepts with the vision to move the solution from PoC to full scale production implementation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level