Solutions Designer/Architect

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Remote
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Solutions Designer/Architect will design and develop cloud solutions on AWS, ensuring they meet business requirements. They will focus on enterprise architecture standards, mentor junior team members, and stay updated on technology trends to guide future applications and projects. Responsibilities also include providing technical expertise for project planning, software development estimation, and risk analysis.
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You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

  • Design and develop cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to meet business requirements.
  • Develop solution software design for new and existing systems to meet business requirements taking into account enterprise standards, benefits, risks, user requirements, and best practices in security, business continuity, availability, disaster recovery, compliance, common use applications, interoperability, reusability, portability, standardization, and supportability
  • Responsible for obtaining Enterprise Architecture Governance Process approvals by documenting solutions that meet enterprise standards to enable project to proceed with stage gates and comply with enterprise standards
  • Develop road maps using industry best practices, standards, and trends for systems focusing on Portal, Workflow, Integration, Datawarehouse, and Digital (cloud, social, mobile, analytics) technologies in order to guide future projects and applications towards a common design pattern for reusability and supportability
  • Create and maintain system design landscape of applications supported by the organization including design standards, patterns, and best practices using industry best practices, standards, and trends in order to guide future projects and applications towards a common design pattern for reusability and supportability
  • Provide technical expertise to Project Managers in project planning, software development estimation, skills requirements, and leadership activities and in identifying and determining mitigation strategies of project level risks in order to ensure project success
  • Mentor and guide junior designers and developers by establishing a forum to share best practices and socialize technology guidelines and standards in order to ensure proper adoption
  • Keep abreast of latest trends in technology by regularly surveying market landscape for solution insights, direction, vendors, and methods to assess their viability for use within the enterprise

Competencies

  • 12+ years of hands-on Design & Development experience in create AWS cloud architecture, Java/ JEE Application & Web design/development
  • Strong design & development experience with RESTful micro services (Java Spring boot/Node JS), as API development.
  • Prior experience of working on modern UI frameworks like Angular - ionic framework, with HTML 5, CSS, Bootstrap etc.
  • Working experience on Relational (preferably Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL) and NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, Dynamo DB or Mongo DB)
  • Experience in developing Cloud native applications & services deployed over AWS.
  • Experience in developing mobile hybrid / native applications.
  • Must have experience in integrating with Legacy systems.
  • Good to have Experience with development languages likely used for Kafka integration.
  • Good to have experience in handling Application security and API Security.
  • Good understanding of latest Industry standards and architectural patterns in Distributed Computing, Cloud, UI, and Database would be essential for success.
  • Experience in coaching an agile technical team.
  • Should have experience of DevOps practices - Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins), Configuration management tools (Git, Bitbucket), Unit testing (JUnit), Build configuration (Maven, Gradle), Code Quality (SonarQube) etc.
  • Proficient with identifying & applying relevant Architecture & Design Patterns for performance.
  • Knowledge of Development best practices, like TDD, BDD.

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

30/03/2025

Top Skills

Angular
Java
Node.js
The Company
Toronto, Ontario
499 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

A UK company, Sun Life Financial of Canada is focused on building excellent customer service by offering the highest levels of customer care. We have been serving customers in the UK for over 100 years

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