About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Solution Designer to join our technology team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in solution architecture, application design, systems integration, cloud technologies, enterprise applications, and software delivery.
The Solution Designer will be responsible for translating business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable, and cost-effective solution designs. This role requires strong technical leadership, architecture knowledge, stakeholder management, analytical thinking, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements and translate them into comprehensive solution designs and technical specifications.
- Define solution architecture, application components, integrations, interfaces, data flows, security requirements, and deployment considerations.
- Develop high-level and detailed solution designs aligned with enterprise architecture standards and organizational technology strategies.
- Evaluate existing systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify opportunities for modernization, integration, scalability, and performance improvement.
- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Developers, Data Architects, Business Analysts, Product Owners, QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Infrastructure teams.
- Design solutions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, cloud services, messaging platforms, and third-party integrations.
- Define application architecture patterns, integration approaches, service boundaries, and technology components.
- Create architecture and design artifacts such as solution diagrams, system context diagrams, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, interface specifications, deployment diagrams, and technical design documents.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards for security, privacy, accessibility, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Design integration solutions using REST APIs, web services, messaging, event-driven architectures, APIs, and middleware technologies.
- Assess technical dependencies, risks, assumptions, constraints, and implementation considerations.
- Recommend appropriate technologies, platforms, frameworks, and design patterns based on business and technical requirements.
- Support cloud solution design using platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud environments.
- Design solutions that leverage cloud services, containers, serverless technologies, managed databases, identity services, and integration platforms.
- Work with development teams to ensure technical solutions are implemented according to approved designs.
- Provide technical guidance and clarification throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance processes.
- Identify non-functional requirements including performance, availability, scalability, security, disaster recovery, maintainability, and supportability.
- Work with security teams to ensure solutions meet authentication, authorization, encryption, network security, and compliance requirements.
- Support identity and access management solutions using technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SSO, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Design database and data integration solutions in collaboration with Data Architects and Data Engineers.
- Support API management, service orchestration, and enterprise integration strategies.
- Ensure solution designs support CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, monitoring, and operational support.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to define deployment models and infrastructure requirements.
- Support estimation, technical planning, proof-of-concepts, feasibility assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
- Review solution designs for compliance with architecture principles and technical standards.
- Maintain architecture decision records, technical documentation, design standards, and system documentation.
- Support incident analysis, root-cause investigation, and architectural improvements for production systems.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical discussions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve architecture consistency, reuse, automation, and overall solution quality.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Solution Design, Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Software Development, or a related technical role.
- Strong experience designing enterprise-scale applications and integrated systems.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and enterprise application architecture.
- Experience creating high-level design and low-level design documentation.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, web applications, and enterprise integrations.
- Experience with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, .NET, Angular, React, or similar enterprise application frameworks.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, web services, API gateways, messaging, and integration patterns.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, including services related to compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, and integration.
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is considered an asset.
- Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, SQL, and enterprise data integration concepts.
- Familiarity with data platforms such as Azure SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar technologies is considered an asset.
- Strong understanding of security architecture, identity management, authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure application design.
- Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and SSO is considered an asset.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
- Experience with tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, Bicep, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, availability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
- Experience defining integration strategies across internal and external enterprise systems.
- Experience with architectural modeling tools and techniques, including UML, sequence diagrams, component diagrams, and deployment diagrams.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF is considered an asset.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work across multiple technical domains and provide end-to-end solution guidance.
- Ability to balance business requirements, technical constraints, security considerations, cost, and delivery timelines.
- Experience working with large, cross-functional, multi-vendor, or distributed delivery teams.
- Experience working in government, public sector, financial services, healthcare, or other large enterprise environments is considered an asset.
- Relevant certifications in Azure, AWS, Solution Architecture, TOGAF, or related technologies are considered an asset.
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Pay: $40.00-$55.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Work from home
Experience:
- Data modeling: 7 years (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brampton, ON L6Y 2Y2
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