Director, Solutions Architecture Enterprise Architecture

Director Solutions Architecture EnterpriseArchitecture

Fitch Group is seeking a Director Solutions Architecture based in our Toronto office reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect for the Fitch Group line of business you support.

This is a hands-on architecture role built around one core relationship: engineering squads. Youll partner directly withtheteamsbuilding technology across your line of business helping them design solutions navigate architecture standards and build with confidence. Youll also help build our internal automated governance agents contributing hands-on to the tools that support technology evaluation PR review and standards enforcement across the organization. This is an individual contributor role no direct reports for someone who leads through influence expertise and relationship.

What We Offer:

• Direct Engineering Partnership:Serve as the architecture partner engineering squadsactually wantto talk to someone who helps them solve real problems not someone who shows up to gate their work.

• Hands-On Contribution to Automated Governance:Build agents alongside the EA team PR review ARB submission support technology evaluation using your own experience with agent orchestration observability and MCP tooling.

• Influence Without Bureaucracy:Shape how engineering teams adopt architecture patternsthrough demonstrated value not mandate. You earn trust by being useful.

• AI-Native Engineering at Scale:Help define how an entire line of business builds software with AI from coding assistants to agentic development workflows and set the practices other teams follow.

How Youll Make an Impact:

• Be the Architect Engineers Call First:Provide direct architecture guidance to the engineering squads in your line of business solution design trade-off analysis pattern selection in the flow of their actual work.

• Support ARB and JAD Sessions When It Matters:Step in to help squads prepare when a new technology or a new pattern is entering the picture pressure-testing the design and reducing back-and-forth before formal review.

• Build Agents for the EA Lifecycle:Contribute directly to the agents that power technology evaluation PR review standards enforcement and ARB submission support.

• Translate StandardsIntoPractice:Take architecture principles and the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and make them concrete and actionable for engineers building real systems.

• Prototype Before You Recommend:Build working examples of patterns before asking teams to adopt them. Credibility here comes from having built it yourself.

• Partner Across Engineering:Work closely with engineering leadsto understand their constraints and tailor architecture guidance to their specific context what works for one squad wont work for all of them.

• Champion AI-Based Development:Help squads adopt AI-assisted and agentic development coding assistants AI-driven testing and agentic workflows and establish the patterns guardrails and metrics that let them ship faster with confidence rather than treating AI as a novelty.

• Drive Down Technical Liabilities:Use the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and the enterprise architecture graph of dependencies to give squads a clear view of their technical debt what to retire what to modernize and where hidden coupling creates risk before it becomes an incident.

• Automate Upgrades and Modernization:Help teams stand up automated dependency upgrades patching and modernization pipelines so keeping systems current becomes a routine low-effort habit instead of a stop-the-world project.

• Own Reference Architectures and Reference Code:Create curate and maintain reusable reference architectures and a well-documented reference code base that squads can build from raising the bar on consistency quality and speed across your line of business.

What You Need to Have:

• Deep Technical Architecture Experience:A strong record designing and evolving backend/distributed systemsarchitecture including data modeling and event-driven design and ideally schema governance API design or platform-scale technical standards.

• Hands-On Agentic AI Experience:Real experience building AI agents working with LLMs and applying agentic patterns orchestration observability tool use to production workflows.

• Influence-Based Leadership:Demonstrated ability to drive adoption across teams without direct authority earning buy-in through trust and results not org-chart power.

• Customer-Facing Orientation:You think of engineers as your customers. You want to understand their problems and help solve them not enforce a checklist.

• Governance at Scale:Experience defining and evolving technical standards across many teams knowing how to get consistent buy-in without slowing everyone down.

• Track Record Driving AI Adoption:Demonstrated success introducing AI-based development practices coding assistants agentic workflows or developer-productivity tooling to engineering teams and getting real sustained usage rather than shelfware.

• Technical Debt and Dependency Management:Experience mapping system dependencies and leading modernization or automated-upgrade programs across a codebase or platform.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• MCP and Agent Tooling Experience:Hands-on work building tools that let AI agents discover query or act on internal systems.

• LLM Observability:Experience standing up or operating observability platforms for LLM agents traces cost safety evaluation.

• Cross-Team Schema or API Governance:Experience leading standards work acrossa large number ofengineering teams.

• Technical Leadership Through Expertise:A track record of being the go-to technical voice on a team mentoring and shaping direction through credibility not title.

Why Choose Fitch:

• Hybrid Work Environment:2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location

• A Culture of Learning & Mobility:Dedicated trainings leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity

• Investing in Your Future:Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals

• Promoting Health & Wellbeing:Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical mental financial social and occupational wellbeing

• Supportive Parenting Policies:Family-friendly policies including a generous global parental leave plan designed to help you balance career and family life effectively

• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplacewhere all voices are valued withEmployee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe

• Dedication to Giving Back:Paid volunteer days matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective timely independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitchs credibility and reputation our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you or your immediate family have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color national origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity disability protected veteran status and other statuses protected by law.

FOR Toronto ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 225000 and 275000 CAD per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education training experience past performance and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitchs total compensation package which depending on the position may also include commission earnings discretionary bonuses long-term incentives and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.