Solutions Architect

About this position:

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to join the Technology & Data Assurance Division (TTD/TDA) and the Enterprise Architecture Team as an international contractor. The successful candidate will support the assessment and design of strategic business initiatives, ensuring solutions align with the Bank's Enterprise Architecture, technology standards, target architectures, and business capabilities. The role bridges business needs and technology implementation, working closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Enterprise Architects, and implementation teams.

What you'll do:

• Partner with Product Teams and business stakeholders to analyze strategic initiatives and define solution architecture options.
• Produce conceptual, logical, and solution architecture designs aligned with enterprise standards and target architectures.
• Support technical design assessments and architecture governance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify application, integration, security, data, and infrastructure impacts for new initiatives.
• Develop architecture diagrams, solution blueprints, interface specifications, and technical documentation.
• Promote reuse of enterprise platforms, APIs, shared services, and architectural patterns.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data, Cloud, AI and Infrastructure teams to ensure end-to-end solution alignment.
• Evaluate technology alternatives and prepare architecture recommendations, including Buy vs. Build analyses where applicable.
• Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and provide technical guidance during project planning and execution.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture methods, standards, and implementation guidance.
• Develop proof-of-concepts (PoCs), prototypes, and reference implementations to validate architecture decisions, evaluate emerging technologies, and reduce implementation risk prior to production adoption.
• Design and develop reusable software components, sample applications, APIs, automation scripts, and architecture accelerators that demonstrate enterprise architecture patterns and best practices.
• Contribute hands-on to the implementation of strategic initiatives when required, collaborating with Product Teams to validate architecture decisions, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and accelerate delivery.
• Develop integration prototypes using modern programming languages and cloud-native technologies to validate interoperability between enterprise platforms, AI services, APIs, and shared capabilities.
• Support the development of architecture automation capabilities, including reusable templates, infrastructure automation, standards-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that improve architecture governance and delivery efficiency.
• Review application code, infrastructure definitions, and technical implementations to ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles, security standards, and solution architecture decisions.

What you'll need:

Education:

• Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience:

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Applications, Systems Integration, Cloud Architecture, or related disciplines.
• Experience designing enterprise solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Experience with application integration, APIs, cloud services, identity, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams and enterprise-scale transformation programs.
• Experience preparing architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical recommendations.
• Experience working with Azure cloud (experience in AWS cloud too is desirable)
• Experience designing and developing enterprise software solutions using one or more modern programming languages (such as C#, Python, or TypeScript) and applying modern software engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native development.

Technical competencies:

• Solution Architecture
• Software Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Cloud-native Development (Azure/AWS)
• C#, Java, Python, or TypeScript
• REST APIs and Microservices
• Containers (Docker)
• DevOps and CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Architecture Modeling and Documentation
• Strong communication and stakeholder management

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