Expert, Solution Architect

Canadian National Railway Company • Montréal-Est, QC

6d

About The Position

At CN, we work together to move our company—and North America—forward. Be part of our Information & Technology (I&T) team, a critical piece of the engine that keeps us in motion. From enterprise architecture to operational technology, our teams use the agile methodology to automate and digitize our railroad ensuring our operations run optimally and safely and our employees can focus on value-added tasks. You will be able to develop your skills and career in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as ONE TEAM. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!
The role of Expert Solution Architect is to define and recommend a sound architecture that will support the Business needs and that will align with the CN directions and standards. This include define solution score and plan architecture, collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other solution architects, provide direction in the delivery of the solution to designers & integrators. More precisely, the Expert builds the solution and get approval from other stakeholders (e.g. security, RAM, Safety, etc.), drives alignment of the proposed solution with the Enterprise & Domain strategies, master plans & roadmaps and manages risk mitigation and as required drives issue escalation & resolution related to the architecture. The Experts signs off on architecture where he/she does have the delegation authority and governs the implementation of the architecture during the design phase.
Reporting into the Operations Solutions vertical which is responsible for transportation, engineering, mechanical and safety IT systems, the selected candidate will lead the architecture of enterprise solutions with a modernization and optimization mindset. The responsibilities will involve defining the target solution, product selection, collaborating with infrastructure teams, acting as an advisor to delivery management and enabling the delivery teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in computer sciences, engineering or equivalent degree and experience
• Integration expertise (system integration patterns, Kafka, rest APIs, etc.)
• Cloud Architecture on GCP
• Experience with Microservice based architecture and Domain Drive Design
• Strong architecture knowledge within numerous fields: business, application, information and technology architecture facets
• Applied engineering, mission critical system of systems
• Strong ability to bring complex concept to actionable architecture deliverable
• Strong capacity to learn new concepts and technology quickly with the capacity to coach, mentor and develop other in learning them
• Strong ability at taking hard decisions by understanding and explaining trade -offs between business enablement and economics impacts
• The role requires people skills to influence and orient business and technical audience toward a common goal that is satisfying all stakeholders
• Very good ability to build collaborative cross functional relationships, pulling together and maintaining a cohesive and high functioning team
• Strong ability to lead team on a mandate and to lead decisions
• Capable of building and safekeeping integrity and credibility among all solution’s stakeholders (Business & IT)
• Ability to deliver mandate with great autonomy – self-driven
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Knowledge of SAP PM & EAM
• Minimum 10-15 years overall work experience (including in OT, IT, Development engagements, Prime Integration)
• Minimum 5 years demonstrating technical leadership qualities and/or overseeing deliverables.
• Minimum 5 years in similar role

Nice To Haves

• Graduate studies computer sciences, engineering is considered.
• PMP, ITIL, TGAF Certifications
• Experience with optimization (AI/ML)

Responsibilities

• Build Solution Architecture: Create, scope, plan, document and estimates work required to deliver solution architecture
• Work with peers and designers to make sure the proposed solution is realized as per the architecture requirement.
• Modernization: Prepare and review solution technological evolution.
• Build technology roadmap 6-18 months.
• Technical Leadership: Accountable to lead communication and to drive escalation & resolution with Stakeholders.
• Ensure technical development of the employee under its responsibility (e.g: specialization or broader knowledge to become solution architect.)

What This Job Offers

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