Senior Solution Architect

3 days ago


Mississauga, Canada Co-operators Full time
Company: CGL

Department: IT

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Work Model: Remote-Based

Language: This role operates in English.

The Opportunity

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.

The Senior Solution Architect is a senior technical leadership role that ensures strategy and design of technology will meet client and company expectations and integrate with defined enterprise architectural standards and direction. The role supports business initiatives and corporate objectives and will specialize in Solution Delivery for Corporate Solution areas such as Legal, Records Management, Privacy, Compliance, Business Optimization & Automation, Finance, etc. The Senior Solution Architect works closely with and informally directs other IT professionals in various areas (e.g. Infrastructure & Operations staff, applications development teams, other Solution Architects, and Enterprise Architects) on complex design/development considerations and techniques to enforce consistency, reusability, and optimization across the enterprise, while balancing numerous factors including but not limited to operational stability, feasibility and availability of the enterprise applications and resources to support delivery.

How You Will Create Impact

  • Evaluate the feasibility of complex enterprise architecture concepts and determine practical approaches to implement and meet the business needs. Translate the conceptual architecture into common services and plans.
  • Analyze the current application/technology/data environments to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
  • Oversee and design of enterprise major mission-critical applications/infrastructure/data models.
  • Initiate and lead in design/code reviews and architectural compliance activities to help ensure that designs are in accordance with Information Technology (IT) strategies, standards, and plans.
  • Ensure solutions meet requirements for integrity, scalability, availability, reusability, audit and disaster recovery.
  • Provide senior-level consultation and support on various tasks related to application/technology/data integration or system development. As lead resource, organize, direct and control the activities carried out by the team, managing changes, issues, integration points and risks.
  • Manage relationships with Corporate Solutions Delivery business colleagues and leaders in support of the overall portfolio. Communicate, collaborate and consult with technology and business colleagues and leaders in support of organizational goals and objectives.
  • Research best practices on technical issues or products, stay current on vendor technology plans and provide leadership in the adoption of new technologies and methodologies. Play an active role in the evaluation and selection of software applications/tools, hardware technology, or data models by providing technical requirements and helping translate business requirements. Participate in developing new product standards and design of standard production configurations.
  • Oversee or consult at a senior level on the implementation and modification activities for applications/technical infrastructure, particularly for new and shared solutions.

How You Will Succeed

  • You initiate new strategies to capitalize on opportunities and lead the implementation of organizational change.
  • You integrate complex information to identify solutions or solve problems and apply a strategic mindset to adjust business plans.
  • You foster innovation and continuous improvement with a focus on client experience.
  • You create a high-performance culture through alignment of your team’s work with organizational goals and successfully convey messages with a sense of positive advocacy.
  • You develop others to ensure the evolving needs of the organization will be met and build effective relationships to achieve key business objectives.

To Join Our Team

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in providing technical leadership for complex solution environments (including software, and infrastructure).
  • Diploma or Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science with at least 15 years relevant progressive IT experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience with developing solution architectures within an agile development environment would be considered an asset.
  • Experience developing shared services and implementing supporting ITIL frameworks would be considered an asset.
  • Experience deploying multi-cloud architectures would be considered an asset.
  • Proficiency in English is essential to the main duties in this role, including servicing and communicating primarily with majority non-francophone clients, groups, teams. Drafting complex English documents and preparing daily reports for anglophone leaders. The essential non-French duties are not assignable to adjacent or other team members.

What You Need To Know

  • You may travel on occasion.
  • You will be required to work from the Guelph office 3 days a month.
  • You will be subject to a background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

What's in it for you?

  • Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
  • Flexible work options to support personal and family needs.
  • A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
  • Paid volunteer days to give back to your community. In addition to our competitive salary and incentive programs, eligible employees also benefit from a comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.


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