Senior Solutions Architect

Job title: Senior Solutions Architect

Job description: What is the opportunity?

RBC Business Financial Services (BFS) technology group is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect. In this role, you will be architecting the next generation of business credit capabilities for RBC in support of Commercial and Small Business customers. In addition, you will demonstrate a high degree of collaboration with business, strategy, operations, architecture, and delivery teams in the areas of digital experiences, events, microservices and APIs.

In addition, this role will be the focal point for developing and maintaining the strategic platform architectures and roadmaps; in strong collaboration with Industry, Business, Operations and Technology management. This person will be responsible for integrating RBC architecture guidance, Consistency, Integrity, Safety and Soundness, Technology Currency and Reuse approaches into the strategic platform architectures, programs and projects.

What will you do?

• Develop and Socialize end-to-end solution for business credit initiatives based on strong collaboration with business and technology leaders with alignment to enterprise architecture, technology standards and industry best practices
• Influence decision making and facilitate teams with multiple stakeholders at all levels in the organization
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, including contributing to knowledge within the architecture & engineering community
• Proactively drive rationalization of competing interests and achieve consensus on contentious issues
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships and relationships with global architecture areas, Application Development, T&O management, RBC business groups, Global Technology Infrastructure, and others
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and aggressive deliverables and take a leadership role in moving initiatives forward and removing obstacles

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area of study (computer science, mathematics, engineering, etc.) or other BS/BA degree with a concentration in computer science or information systems or equivalent
• Total IT experience of at least 15 years out of which 5 years doing Application or Solutions Architectures on large projects with proven experience at leading architecture of a large program
• Advanced knowledge on different architecture/design techniques (e.g. Integration patterns, component-based design), data integration, security integration and infrastructure with a broad technical knowledge on integration and messaging technologies including batch, synchronous, asynchronous technologies
• Advanced knowledge on different architecture/design techniques (e.g. SOA/Microservices, REST/SOAP, Cloud Native applications, Event-Driven Architecture, Orchestration/Choreography, Data Pipelines), modern and legacy technology platforms (e.g. Kafka, Websphere MQ/IIB, Rabbit MQ, RBDMS, NoSQL, Hadoop, etc.)
• Solid experience designing resilient enterprise applications using On Premises and Cloud computing platforms
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with an ability to manage large cross-functional technical teams and ability to define, influence and impact the technical direction

Nice-to-have

• Strong knowledge of financial applications as well as host-based systems
• Experience in modernization of core applications
• Strong knowledge of architecture/design of presentation layer (web, mobile), security and event-driven architecture
• Hands-on development experience on micro-services (REST/GraphQL), KAFKA, Cloud, and DevOps

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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JOB SUMMARY
City: Toronto
Address: 88 Queens Quay W
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salary + Variable Bonus
Required Travel(%): 0
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 12/12/2021
Platform: Technology and Operations
Req ID: 421405
Ad Code(s):

Company: Royal Bank of Canada

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:44:40 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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