Solutions Architect

We don’t just build networks, we build communities. From our roots in Liberty Village to our growing footprint across Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Beanfield has spent 35+ years connecting people through a robust, independently owned fibre‑optic network.

With 500+ employees and an entrepreneurial mindset, we move fast, think creatively, and stay connected to the people who make Beanfield what it is. If you thrive in a collaborative, high‑impact environment where your work matters, you will feel right at home.

Our headquarters is located inToronto’s super‑hip Liberty Village, surrounded by great coffee, food, energy, and creativity—making it a great place to collaborate in person.

Our Values

We Are Challengers

We lead the way. We disrupt the industry by thinking differently, moving quickly, and taking ownership. We operate with a startup mentality and believe in building and investing in our own infrastructure, and our people.

We Are United

We operate as one team. Collaboration is core to how we work, and every idea matters. We believe strong partnerships and shared ownership lead to better outcomes.

We Care

We care deeply about our employees, partners, customers, and communities. We build trust through open communication, thoughtful decisions, and a relentless focus on our brand and customer experience.

Position Summary

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.

• Solution Design: Lead conceptual and detailed design of new applications, features, and integrations. Create comprehensive architectural documentation (blueprints, diagrams, models) to guide development teams.
• Requirements Translation: Translate complex business needs and user stories into effective technical requirements and architectural components.
• Technology Selection: Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, cloud services, integration patterns, and third‑party tools.
• Performance & Scalability: Ensure architectures are designed for high performance and horizontal scalability to support growth.
• Technical Governance: Ensure solutions adhere to standards for performance, security, scalability, and enterprise architecture alignment.
• Data Solution Design: Design end‑to‑end data flows and architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption.
• Technology Selection: Choose appropriate data technologies (SQL, NoSQL, data lakes, data warehouses) and cloud services based on requirements.
• Data Modeling: Define conceptual and logical data models to ensure performance, maintainability, and alignment with solution needs.
• Integration Strategy: Define integration mechanisms (APIs, message queues, ETL/ELT) to connect solutions with enterprise systems, CRMs, and reporting tools.
• Security & Compliance: 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.

Skills & Qualifications

Required

• 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.
• Excepti