Senior Azure Solutions Architect to support a system integration project with one of our insurance clients - 13579/13578

Senior Azure Solutions Architect to support a system integration project with one of our insurance clients - /

Location-Hybrid- Toronto- 3 days in office Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday

Contract Duration : 1 Year Contract

Schedule Hours : 37.5 hrs / week.

Note : If the selected candidate is supporting an Asia portfolio - Availability in evenings (7 : 30pm 10 : 30pm) / early morning (7am-9 : 30am) would be needed dependent on business need / scheduled meetings.

Story Behind the Need

Project / Business Group : The successful candidate will be supporting a portfolio of work, each portfolio comprising various projects.

The specific portfolio the candidate supports will be dependent on their business knowledge and expertise in the following Industry verticals :

Marketing, Global Operations / Procurement, Finance, Treasury, Actuarial & Reinsurance, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Global Communications, Global Risk.

Legal. Compliance. Audit

Typical Day in Role

The Sr Solution Architect will be responsible for applying business and technical expertise to design, implement and support new business capabilities strategic to Group Functions long-term growth.

Supporting Group Functions / corporate lines of businesses, you will be responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of the current and target state of architecture in this area.

The critical stakeholders that the candidate will engage with will be specific to the portfolio they support. The contractor’s deliverables remain the same across all portfolios they will be responsible for delivering an architectural package which outlines the solution design for review.

This role is for individual contributors and does not involve indirect reports.

Must Have Skills :

• 8-10+ years of expertise in large and / or complex system integration projects as a Solutions Architect
• 8-10+ years of expertise in crafting software / platform / infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes
• Demonstrated strong understanding of various integration and architecture technologies
• Experience in cloud platform Microsoft Azure is a requirement.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment

Nice-To-Have Skills :

• Strong knowledge of API design and integration patterns and cloud-based architectures
• Proficiency in integration technologies such as APIs, ESBs, microservices, message brokers, ETL tools, and protocols (REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Proficiency in assessing trade-offs between various integration approaches and platform design approaches

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business, (or related) or the equivalent in work experience
• Certifications : n / a however cloud certifications are a plus

Key Responsibilities :

• Collaborating with corporate business teams to identify and drive opportunities for architecture alignment and reuse between corporate lines of businesses
• Supporting and driving definition of key aspects of the strategic architecture, identifying and resolving gaps or key issues
• Works with executives from various groups to provide architectural recommendations & guidance as well as executive-level presentations at the enterprise level.
• Providing architectural direction and communicating architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies.
• Delivers architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency to align with business strategy.
• Partners with broader stakeholders in technology and business in defining architecture possibilities and future.
• Identifies risks or issues with technology solution & design which may impact realization of project benefits and provides guidance and support to stakeholders in making good decisions to pro-actively resolve or mitigate potential risks / delays to the project
• Identifies and researches relevant technologies, performs proof of concepts / prototypes, and recommends applications of such technologies to future product architectures.
• Analyzes and designs viable solutions to high complexity business problems according to user specifications.
• Ensuring the quality and consistency of architecture artefacts across the embedded architecture domains (e.g. system flows, data flows, conceptual designs, and application / information models)
• Contributing to standards, policies, best architectural practice and the process to govern against these standards

Interview Structure :

• 1st round 45minutes -1 hr duration- Interviewers : 3 enterprise architects. Content - Technical questions.
• 2nd round (final round)- 30 minutes. Interviewer. To determine fit
30+ days ago