Solutions Architect

Interac Corp. • Toronto, ON

1d • CA$125,000 - CA$145,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The vacant Solution Architect role will report to the Leader, Product Foundation. You’ll collaborate with a diverse network of leaders, architects, and engineering teams to shape the future of secure, scalable money movement. Partnering closely with Product, platform, and client stakeholders, you’ll influence end-to-end architecture strategies across cloud, applications, and data. This role sits at the center of innovation—bringing together cross-functional expertise to design modern, resilient, and compliant solutions at scale.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the design and delivery of complex, large‑scale IT projects
• 3+ years of experience as a Solution Architect providing hands‑on technical leadership for end‑to‑end design, delivery, and management of hybrid cloud solutions using AWS, and OpenShift.
• Cloud Solution Architect certification with a major cloud provider such as AWS, or OCP
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud‑native solutions using microservices, containers, and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Strong experience in REST API design, API gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standards, and OAuth‑based security
• Experience leading large programs delivered using globally distributed teams across onsite, nearshore, and offshore models
• Strong experience working with Agile delivery methods and DevOps practices
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, fault‑tolerant, and resilient systems
• Solid understanding of data center concepts and best practices including high availability, capacity planning, performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy hybrid, multi‑cloud, and cloud‑native architectures for money movement transformation initiatives aligned to client business requirements
• Own solution architecture across infrastructure strategy, systems strategy, application architecture, communications strategy, and data center strategy
• Lead creation of Solution Architecture, High‑Level Design (HLD), and Low‑Level Design (LLD) deliverables in collaboration with client architects and internal teams
• Define end‑to‑end application architecture including application decomposition, layering, component design, and technology selection
• Design API‑first, event‑driven, and microservices‑based application architectures
• Define integration architecture across internal systems, external partners, and third‑party platforms
• Design data architecture including logical and physical data models, ERDs, data flows, and persistence strategies
• Create and review architecture artifacts including UML diagrams, ERDs, system interaction diagrams, and integration diagrams
• Provide expertise in hybrid cloud platform security, governance, and compliance aligned to regulatory and payments requirements
• Demonstrate strong understanding of hybrid cloud platforms including OpenShift, and AWS, and cloud service consumption models
• Design cost‑effective, scalable, and resilient cloud and application solutions
• Define and design High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across application, platform, and data layers
• Apply architecture best practices using reference architectures, industry patterns, and reusable service assets
• Own accountability for solution performance, availability, scalability, resiliency, and security and assess impact on client infrastructure and application ecosystems
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, and DevOps teams to define automation strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes

Benefits

• Generous vacation and wellness days
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage
• Market-leading employer-funded RRSP program
• Flexible hybrid work model
• Free and confidential 24/7 employee & family assistance program
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up
• Charitable donation matching with United Way

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed