Technical Solutions Strategist

2 months ago

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canadian Tire Financial Services Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to join our team at Canadian Tire Financial Services. As a key member of our architecture team, you will be responsible for designing and leading the technical delivery of integrated technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Provide technical leadership for capabilities under the HR and Corporate portfolios, ensuring alignment with our overall enterprise architecture strategy and standards.
  2. Produce target state architecture and roadmaps for the accountable portfolio, driving business value through technology innovation.
  3. Act as a trusted advisor, providing expert guidance on data movement and integration best practices, solution security, infrastructure, networking, and resiliency.
  4. Lead architecture for projects of various types, including SAAS selection and implementation, migration of legacy solutions from on-prem to the cloud, or build of custom solutions in Azure.
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and integrate scalable and reliable technologies, ensuring seamless delivery and adoption.
  6. Manage architectural risk mitigation and remediation, ensuring the integrity of our technology solutions.
  7. Deliver solution designs that meet business needs, communicating effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in.
  8. Provide detailed guidance for delivery on enterprise architecture designs, enabling offshore development or external vendors to complete the solution.
  9. Publish and present design findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring clear understanding and adoption.
  10. Establish and maintain solution architecture standards, providing direction to project teams and vendors to ensure compliance.
  11. Work closely with delivery, platform security, and risk/compliance areas to review and evaluate designs, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  12. Monitor and assess emerging technologies and future direction of major application platforms, recommending improvements for delivery.
  13. Govern the delivery elements for the overall solution, ensuring fit to design and meeting business requirements.
  14. Create technical process models/flows to visualize solution architecture, driving business requirement flows and utilized by development teams.
  15. Complete the solution implementation plan for all internal and external service providers delivering solutions for the project.
What We're Looking For
  1. Post-secondary education, preferably in Computer Science or related fields.
  2. 5 or more years of practical experience as a Solution Architect, with a strong track record of delivering complex technology solutions.
  3. Strong technology research skill set, with proven ability to architect and present technology alternatives based on scope-level business concepts.
  4. Strong object-oriented analysis and design skills, with understanding of design patterns for n-tier and service-oriented architectures, including web services.
  5. Knowledge in principles of software architecture, techniques, and UML notation.
  6. Demonstrate a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, with a willingness to adapt to changing business needs.
  7. Ability to work successfully in a highly matrix organization, building partnerships with peers and vendors.
  8. Knowledge of Containers and containers orchestration tools.
  9. Expertise in solution design and development.
  10. Knowledge and experience regarding the practical application of security/risk concepts, standards, and regulations.
  11. Experience designing and delivering web-based solutions integrating to legacy back-end environments.
  12. Experience designing/implementing HCM software like Workday, PeopleSoft, Dayforce, etc. is a nice to have.

We value flexibility and have adopted a hybrid work model, empowering leaders to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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