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Solution Architect

JDISaint John🇨🇦Canada

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationSaint John, Canada

Job description

The Solution Architect is responsible for the design and development of IT Solutions and architecture for J.D. Irving, Limited companies. They have a broad and deep technical knowledge and experience across varying infrastructure requirements, development, design, and re-engineering. They serve as technical experts on solutions design and analyze the functionality and constraints of recommended solutions/changes across multiple systems/platforms/applications. 

The Solution Architect brings value to J.D. Irving, Limited companies by ensuring the solutions designed are aligned with the enterprise architecture standards and guidelines while meeting business objectives. 

This position requires full-time on-site presence. 

  • Guide on the effective use of solutions and architectures in order to achieve business outcomes in alignment with business requirements
  • Provide solution architecture design and recommendations to project team
  • Understand business and technical requirements to provide solutions enabling business goals and support delivery outcomes
  • Lead in designing, specifying, and selecting information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure, scalability and performance
  • Ensure alignment with the overall Business, Application, Information and Technology principals
  • Contribute to Enterprise Architecture principles and methods
  • Update the Enterprise Architecture repository maintaining impacted components, relationships, and attributes
  • Lead the organization in leveraging emerging technology and use knowledge of IT solutions to drive organizational change and support business process design
  • Understand and support to software architecture design and support development team in developing solutions
  • Estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development, and support
  • Work with the Project Managers and Business Analysts to develop project schedule tasks and resource plans for solution delivery
  • Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Info Systems, Business Management, or related discipline 
  • 5-7 years’ experience in a similar position, including 10 years in a professional IT environment 
  • TOGAF – The Open Group certified 
  • Experience providing technical direction to less experienced team members 
  • Experience working in enterprise architecture/solution design in a diverse IT environment 
  • Experience creating design documents for solutions 
  • Strong technical background complimented with excellent communication and problem solving and critical thinking skills
  • Good understanding of solution designs relevant to commercial off the Shelf (COTS) including enterprise systems 
  • Experience with web application architecture, trends and emerging technologies 
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills both written and verbal 

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