Solutions Architect

Beanfield Technologies Inc. • Toronto, ON

126d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to join our technology team. This critical role acts as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, owning the end-to-end design of solutions. The Solutions Architect will ensure that projects and features are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals and established enterprise architecture standards.

This is a strategic role responsible for aligning technology with business objectives. The Solutions Architect ensures all investments contribute to a cohesive, scalable, and resilient enterprise architecture. They will independently manage and deliver end-to-end designs from concept to completion, provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineering team members, and establish technology standards, patterns, and principles within the Software Engineering team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software development or engineering roles, including at least 3 years in Solution Architecture or Lead Technical Architecture.
• Proven ability to design large-scale, complex enterprise systems across application, data, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Expertise in public cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or AWS) and cloud-native solution design.
• Strong command of data modeling, networking, security principles, and the full SDLC.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, able to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and research skills.
• Google Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar certifications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading application rationalization, modernization, and/or replacement initiatives.
• TOGAF or Zachman Certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead conceptual and detailed design of new applications, features, and integrations.
• Create comprehensive architectural documentation (blueprints, diagrams, models) to guide development teams.
• Translate complex business needs and user stories into effective technical requirements and architectural components.
• Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, cloud services, integration patterns, and third-party tools.
• Ensure architectures are designed for high performance and horizontal scalability to support growth.
• Ensure solutions adhere to standards for performance, security, scalability, and enterprise architecture alignment.
• Design end-to-end data flows and architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption.
• Choose appropriate data technologies (SQL, NoSQL, data lakes, data warehouses) and cloud services based on requirements.
• Define conceptual and logical data models to ensure performance, maintainability, and alignment with solution needs.
• Define integration mechanisms (APIs, message queues, ETL/ELT) to connect solutions with enterprise systems, CRMs, and reporting tools.
• Design data security measures (encryption, access controls, auditing) to meet regulatory and organizational standards.
• Oversee the organization’s application portfolio, identify redundancies, optimize IT costs, and drive modernization efforts such as application rationalization and technical debt reduction.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for development, QA, and operations teams.
• Mentor engineering staff on architectural best practices and patterns.
• Identify architectural and design risks early and recommend mitigation strategies to ensure stability, security, and scalability.
• Conduct technical reviews of in-flight projects.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Permanent, full-time position.
• A comprehensive group insurance plan - medical, dental, vision care with health and lifestyle spending accounts.
• A fantastic parental leave top-up program.
• Support for professional and career development.

What This Job Offers

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