Insight Global is looking for a Solutions Architect to join one of Canada's largest retail and wellness companies. The ideal candidate will be joining the Mobile Commerce team that supports and delivers an in-store mobile app for Educators to help Guests find products online, purchase in-store, and supports other experiences in the store. The Architect partners with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs.
A day in the life:
Lead the business/functional architecture and strategy for solutions in a manner consistent with Technologys enterprise architecture, applying common frameworks and re-usable components
Partner with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs.
Create solution design documentation by following enterprise architecture frameworks and standards
Contribute and lead architecture meetings and create tasks for developers by translating use cases into technical requirements on iOS and AWS Cloud technologies
Support the development team by answering questions, resolving problems, and troubleshooting issues
Work closely with other domain architects (DevOps, CICD, Mobile, DB, and other integrated systems) and development teams to support and guide solution implementations and acts as an advisor for technical resources on projects
Assist the estimation of Developer and QA efforts ensuring proper understanding of implementation scope, as well as adherence to best practices and methodical delivery
Help ensure the operational platforms and associated interfacing data and systems have been properly architected from and end-to-end perspective to meet the functional and non-functional needs of the business
Work directly with Business Analysts to define and refine technical requirements for future work
Ensure as-requested functionality gets translated into as-designed solutions within the context of timeline, resources, org structure and quality
Take ownership of bringing conceptual design down to a level of detail that can be physically implemented. Ensuring all required details and documentations are in the right place on Jira and confluence.
Develop and maintain current and future-state architecture models
Stay abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
Collaborate with DevOps and infra teams for backend setup
Participate in technology reviews and conduct as-built audit + documentation, and work with ops readiness teams to design system continuity and support.
Advise Mobile Developers on best practices and Architecture usage
Monitor and analyze the performance of the AWS and Azure cloud platforms, making data-driven decisions to enhance its efficiency and effectiveness.
Work with Operations to plan upgrades, troubleshoot issues, and tune systems for optimal performance and uptime
Provides leadership to junior and senior software engineers; knows how to leverage and enhance their skills
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5+ year of hands on developing, deploying, scaling, and maintaining software systems and infrastructure: most of this experience should come from working in and around cloud-based services at enterprise scale.
3+ years of hands-on architecture or related experience within the mobile or retail domains
Deep hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and data components in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools. All infrastructure deployed and maintained through CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
Be able to describe the key services of a given cloud platform and be able to select appropriately for given use cases, e.g. compute, storage, analytics, etc.
Deep familiarity with microservices and serverless architectures, ideally at a global / enterprise scale.
Deep familiarity with managing accounts at scale and managing OU strategy, Resource Groups, and Landing Zones using Control Tower in AWS and CloudFormation.
Experience governing cloud resources and services using SCP and RCP in AWS and Azure Policies
Retail, Mobile and Payment domain
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.