Cloud Solution Architect in Toronto

We are looking for a skilled Solution Architect for a client in Toronto. They are looking for Solution Architects with experience working on Cloud and Development focused projects within the Banking sector.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud strategy and transformation, cloud migration roadmap, or cloud-native application architecture design based on client needs and industry trends.
• Produce estimates for the system migration, design, development and testing.
• Embrace Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) and Agile engineering practices in client engagements.
• Review and guide the technical team's deliverables to ensure overall quality and compliance with the cloud architecture and business requirements.
• Ensure that enterprise architecture standards, policies, and procedures are enforced in client engagements.
• Lead, mentor, and coach the technical team on client engagements.
• Assist with proposals and pre-sales activities.
• Lead development to ALETHA’s intellectual property and best practices in Cloud Architecture, Cloud Application Design, Cloud Delivery Frameworks or Process.
• Foster and maintain close working relationships with clients.

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in either Computer Science or Engineering.
• At least 10 years of development/architecture experience.
• Prior professional experience in application development, system integration, cloud native development, cloud infrastructure, and platform-as-a-service.
• Understanding of cloud migration challenges, solutions and accelerators for various public and private cloud offerings in FS industries.
• At least 8 years of experience with system design or development in one or more of the following: Java, C#, .NET, Node.js, Angular JS, Python.
• Experience in architecting or developing applications in either Azure or AWS or GCP.
• Experience with multi-cloud integration architecture and hybrid cloud integration.
• Good understanding of cloud chargeback model and cost optimization concepts in design and roadmap.
• Familiar with capabilities of various platform services (e.g. Compute, Storage, Web, Developer, Integration, Data, Security, or Management) from the cloud vendors.
• Strong knowledge and experiences with microservices, serverless, functions, event-driven programming, REST-oriented API, or other cloud native architectures.
• Strong knowledge and experiences with containers and orchestration in the cloud (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, or Cloud Foundry).
• Strong knowledge and experiences with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CD/CI) and Agile engineering practices.
• Good overall business knowledge in financial industries (i.e. one or more in retail banking, commercial banking, capital markets, wealth management, insurance, pension fund, and fintech).
• Strong communication, problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
• Preferably with certification as an either AWS Solution Architect (Associate or Pro) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.