Solution Architect

Calgary - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Solution Architect

Location: Calgary AB

Mode: Contract

Experience: 15 years in solution design; 3 5 years as architect on cloud-native platforms

Role Purpose: Own end-to-end solution architecture ensuring scalable secure cost-effective designs aligned to business goals and enterprise standards

Responsibilities:

Translate business and non-functional requirements into target architecture (app data integration security)

Produce HLD/LLD sequence diagrams data models API/interface specs Integration contracts

Define reference architectures and guardrails for frontend backend APIs data and CI/CD/DevSecOps

Architect for reliability/observability (SLOs tracing logging alerting) performance and resiliency (DR/BCP)

Lead cloud architecture (AWS/Azure) container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) and service mesh GitOps automated testing security-by-design (OAuth2/OIDC SSO secrets KMS)

Review designs code pipelines and SAST/DAST results; drive remediation and performance tuning

Partner with product/PMO on build-vs-buy cost models and scalability/capacity planning

Align with Enterprise Architecture ensure compliance and support audits/risk assessments

Lead PoCs/spikes and coach squads on architecture patterns and NFR implementation

Required Skills:

Knowledge in commercetools cloud (AWS) containers/K8s/OpenShift API gateways event streaming (Kafka)

Strong knowledge of microservices REST/GraphQL messaging caching/CDN and databases (RDBMS/NoSQL)

Proficiency with CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps) security (OAuth2 SAML TLS) and observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/APM)

Solid understanding of networking performance engineering and cost optimization

Excellent communication and ability to simplify complex designs for diverse stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Certifications: AWS SA Pro/Azure Architect Expert TOGAF CKA/CKAD Security certs (e.g. CCSP)

Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC2 ISO 27001 PCI GDPR) and FinOps

Success Metrics (KPIs):

SLO/SLA attainment performance benchmarks security issue closure time cost vs. design budget

Defect escape rate (architecture-related) reusability/adoption of reference components time-to-market gains

Role: Solution Architect Location: Calgary AB Mode: Contract Experience: 15 years in solution design; 3 5 years as architect on cloud-native platforms Role Purpose: Own end-to-end solution architecture ensuring scalable secure cost-effective designs aligned to business goals and enterprise stan...