Solutions Architect Jobs in Toronto, Canada at Scotiabank
Title: Solutions Architect
Company: Scotiabank
Location: Toronto, Canada
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In this role, you will:
Solution Architecture & Platform Design
Define scalable, resilient, and extensible solution designs that support high‑volume, mission‑critical Investment Platform workloads.
Translate business strategy and product objectives into target‑state architectures, solution blueprints, and well‑defined transition roadmaps.
Design and evaluate architectural options, patterns, and trade‑offs, and provide clear, defensible recommendations to Product Owners and business sponsors.
Lead the end‑to‑end solution architecture when assigned as the Primary Architect for an Investment Platform project or initiative. When acting as the Investment Platform Supporting Architect, provide architectural guidance for Investment Platform applications involved in broader initiatives. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security controls, regulatory requirements, and the Investment Platform domain roadmap.
Contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of Investment Platform roadmaps in collaboration with Senior Architects, application owners, and business stakeholders, including considerations for technical debt containment, modernization, and cloud readiness.
Technical Leadership & Advisory
Act as a trusted technical advisor to delivery teams, providing ongoing architectural guidance across design, build, test, and deployment phases.
Review solution designs and key implementation decisions to ensure adherence to non‑functional requirements (performance, scalability, resiliency, availability).
Partner with engineering and platform teams to guide design decisions, rather than owning day‑to‑day coding or testing activities.
Contribute to estimation and planning discussions from an architectural complexity and risk perspective.
Governance, Risk & Operational Readiness
Ensure solutions meet SLA, resiliency, and operational readiness requirements, including production support and lifecycle management considerations.
Provide architectural escalation support for complex production issues and systemic platform risks.
Support architecture governance processes by producing decision artifacts, design reviews, and risk assessments as required.
Industry & Domain Expertise
Apply strong financial services and investment domain knowledge to shape platform decisions, data flows, integration patterns, and regulatory compliance.
Understand upstream and downstream dependencies across trading, servicing, reporting, data, and external integrations within the Investment Platform ecosystem.
Collaboration & Influence
Work closely with Senior and Lead Architects, Chief Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Engineering Leads, Platform teams, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business outcomes.
Provide architectural mentorship and guidance to delivery teams, fostering architectural discipline and quality thinking across initiatives.
Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by promoting sound design principles, pragmatic architectural patterns, and shared architectural ownership.
Professional & Behavioral Expectations
Demonstrate accountability for architectural outcomes and decisions, with a strong ownership mindset.
Exhibit high emotional intelligence, influencing outcomes through collaboration, clarity, and respect for diverse perspectives.
Embrace ambiguity and change, making informed decisions even when not all variables are known.
Continuously evolve architectural thinking to address complex problems and emerging technologies.
Remain customer‑focused, consistently working to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:
Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
15+ years of software engineering industry experience
3+ years architecture experience in creating and managing enterprise architectures and solutions
Experience in the financial industry with Java, Pega and host development experience.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills and is capable of multi-tasking and managing concurrent…
