Solution Architect, Deloitte Global Technology

Job Type: Permanent
Reference code: 124178
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON
Our Purpose
At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.
By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching
• Partner with clients to solve their most complex problems

What will your typical day look like?
The Solution Architect manages large teams who are developing high level frameworks that align an organization’s IT infrastructure with business processes/data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations including:
Responsibilities:

• Understand and communicate the Enterprise strategy to Application, Data and Solution Architects along with other non-technical stakeholders
• Review and approve 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.
• Work with business clients and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs.
• Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.
• Work closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.
• Collaborate with product development teams to provide a high-level vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives
• Define and validate non-functional (technical) requirements and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.
• Communicate implications of architectural decisions, technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements to business and IT Leadership.
• Provide expert knowledge of application architecture to business and technology teams and facilitate the collaborative development of the technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.
• Lead technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.
• Participate, and technically lead when needed, production troubleshooting and ‘War Room’ Activities.
• Provide input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.

About The Team
Deloitte Technology works at the forefront of technology development and processes to support and protect Deloitte around the world. In this truly global environment, we operate not in "what is" but rather "what can be" to help Deloitte deliver and connect with its clients, its communities, and one another in ways not previously conceived.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you
Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or Information Systems or related and/or equivalent experience
• Minimum six (6) years Industry experience, in architecture and delivery of software products and solutions.
• Minimum one (1) year of leadership/management experience
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in an architect role in a large Scaled Agile program.

Preferred:

• Experience designing and implementing off-prem public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) environments and architectures and operational models. Including developing cloud-ready
• One or more programming languages (i.e. C#, Python); One or more databases (SQL/No SQL), Web front end technologies (Angular, ReactJS etc), Application frameworks (.Net Preferable), Business Intelligence solutions (Power BI, Tableau), Enterprise integration patterns (MOM, SOA etc.), Machine learning & AI, Big Data analytics, One or more cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP), Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Service Fabric etc.)
• Expertise in designing/implementing external-authentication systems using Azure AD or OAuth2
• Strong C#. Net programming skills using any cloud providers who can carve out framework and pattern, implement a feature as well as debug
• Experience in a data engineering role with demonstrable experience with Cognitive computing, data integration, data mining, Natural Language Processing, and automating machine learning components.
• Certified Cloud Solution Architect by one or more cloud providers (Azure Preferable)
• Expertise in Microsoft technology stack and creating detailed design of services, components, modules, classes, and database structure

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The next step is yours
At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan , Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative .
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