Solution Architect
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Job Description
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
Employment Type
Full-time
