Solutions Architect

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Solutions Architect

Technology / Software Development

Job Description

What Is The Opportunity?

As part of the RBC Bank Architecture team, a Solutions Architect evaluates, creates, and improves solutions for all product categories in the bank; and plays a key role in technology management and architectural governance across the organization. In addition to designing solutions, in this role, you will be establishing best practices, leading successful implementations of solutions and be a key partner to business throughout the entire lifecycle of product development.  The role will coordinate, develop, lead, communicate and execute activities to ensure objectives are accomplished according on time. 
Apart from your technical knowledge and curiosity, passion for the quality of your work, zeal for learning and ability to articulate and enunciate complex concepts will be other strong assets that will help you succeed in this position.

What will you do?

• Design large or complex solutions, including system and application architecture, in accordance with industry best practices, RBC standards and strategies

• Create end to end application enterprise architectures that are

  • Secure

  • Extensible

  • Available and Performant

  • Scalable

  • Compliant with RBC standards and industry best practices

• Identify weaknesses with or further optimize existing architectures and design improvements based on the principles mentioned above

• Identify and apply tooling to measure these attributes, develop and monitor KPIs and KRIs around them

• Take each solution through in RBC’s solution governance process from inception to completion, including

  • Documenting current and new architectures

  • Proposing alternate solutions to mitigate gaps and risks, and logging “AD”s (Architectural Decisions)

  • Using your expertise to vote on the best solution

• Mentor development teams in best practices, including hands-on development of Proof of Concepts to demonstrate architectural pattern

• Manage implementation of large complex initiatives, plan technical development activities and communicate risks

• Stay on top of industry trends and applying best practices in front end, backend, platform and data architecture

What do you need to succeed ?

Must Have

• Hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs and SOAP webservices using Java or .Net based microservice architectures on cloud native platforms like OpenShift, Cloud Foundry

• Complete familiarity with modern distributed computing concepts and how they are applied in IAAS / PaaS solutions from Azure and AWS including:

  • Containers

  • Serverless

  • Service Meshes

  • Immutable architectures

  • Declarative APIs

• Strong understanding of application security best practices including

  • Encryption for storage and transmission (APIs)

  • IAM concepts like SSO and federation

  • Token and certificate management

• Extensive experience with database development using SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle

• Thorough understanding of RDBMS design principles and writing queries.

• Thorough understanding of web-based application architecture including webservers, firewalls, CDNs, application frameworks and interoperability

Nice to have

• Experience with Low code platforms and ecosystems like SalesForce, OutSystems, Power, Blue Prism

• Experience with message bus/queuing architectures like MQ, Kafka

• Strong proficiency with front end technologies like Angular, React, HTML5, CSS3 including

• Knowledge of accessibility standards like WCAG 2.0 and implementing to the standards.

• Experience implementing internationalization and localization standards (i18n, l10n)

• Experience with NoSQL databases

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