Senior Solutions Architect Job Details | Purolator

Posting Date: Posting Number: 65478 Work Location Type: Hybrid Job Code: 1313 Location: Corporate Office Reports to: Sr Director Tech Services & Platform It’s not a package. It’s a promise®. As Canada’s leading integrated freight, package, and logistics provider, we’ve been helping promises get where they need to be for more than 60 years. How does the magic happen? The journey starts with you . The places we go, the elements we brave, the promises we deliver - it’s all possible because of our people. So, whether you’re looking to build new skills, make an impact in your community, or inspire your team, we go there for you. Description The Senior Solution Architect (SA) translates business requirements into solution architecture that complies with enterprise architectural standards and roadmaps. This role is pivotal in delivering and maintaining a solution that best suits business requirements. The SA should have a wide breadth of knowledge on Cloud technologies specifically on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SA analyzes application integration patterns and infrastructure technology to determine its ability to support the solutions required and creates relevant conceptual solution and solution map to be referenced by other teams to utilize during their solution planning. The Senior Solution Architect is a key role in the architecture family. This individual collaborates with the Project Manager/Delivery team and the Enterprise Architecture team to facilitate technical solutions. Please Note: We are accepting applications throughout early October and plan to engage with candidates after October 18, 2024. Key Focus Areas Strategic Dimension: Analyze and Evaluate Technology. This involves providing guidance and facilitation to analysis and design tasks that help develop target-state for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise and guiding technology investment decisions to enable business strategy. Collaborate to Deliver Business Value. This involves leading and supporting Enterprise Architecture activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. Tactical Dimension Create, evaluate, and recommend solutions that incorporate business, technology, roadmap, cost, scalability, and performance requirements for various initiatives. Collaborate within the Architecture team on the solution design to ensure it complies with enterprise architectural standards and future roadmaps. Conduct continuous improvement analysis on existing application and infrastructure technology and its ability to support the current corporate integration requirements. Liaise with Project Managers and Delivery teams to implement a solution that will meet business requirements within time and cost constraints and help program and project managers in the implementation of design, planning and governance of project/initiative. Assess and articulate any impacts of the solution on existing business and technical landscape. Responsibilities Work closely with the development team to ensure design patterns and direction are successfully and consistently implemented. Proactively anticipate technical risks and design/implement error handling and other mitigation techniques to ensure system stability and security. Participate in tier 3 application support activities including incident management and the assessment and delivery of application upgrades and patches. Author architectural solution documents Provides guidance on basic aspects of AWS cloud infrastructure offerings. Assists with design and implementation of available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and systems, with help from senior Architects. Recognize opportunities for reuse, componentization, dependencies and interactions between components and projects and take ownership of resolving issues/conflicts. Assists with implementation of Cloud Architecture solutions from an Application and Infrastructure perspective. Assist with integration of cloud infrastructure/network environment with corporate infrastructure / data center environment. Assist with design of reference Architecture for implementation of codified stacks that meet the needs of the applications. Educates team to implement based on best practices. Provides hands-on technical support to accelerate Cloud learning among peers. Experience and Qualifications Minimum 10 years’ experience in progressively advancing roles within IT. Minimum 3-5 years of experience in solution architecture and design of large-scale software solutions. Experience of implementing solutions on AWS platform Familiar with / basic knowledge of cloud computing technologies. Familiar with AWS design principles and architectural best practices and industry standards. Familiarity with AWS Well Architected Framework and Cloud migration industry standards and best practices. Familiar with / basic knowledge of building IaaS and PaaS solutions. Knowledge of technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization. Solution design: familiar with workflow concepts and how they integrate with application solutions in a cross-application context. Application development: knowledge of functions, features, and facilities of applicable programming languages (Java and Python). Application development concepts: is familiar with developing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based services within medium to highly complex application environments. Extensive experience in integration patterns and best practices such as synchronous vs. asynchronous communications, RESTful APIs, messaging, publish-subscribe, REST, SOAP, Web Services. Excellent decision making, analytical and problem-solving skills. Familiarity with both functional and performance aspects of integration. Domain knowledge: experience in relevant IT domain. Education Academic: Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent (required), Graduate degree in engineering, computer science (Asset) Certifications / skills: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (good to have) AWS Certified Developer - Associate (good to have) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (good to have) POSTING DETAILS Location: 530 - Corporate Working Conditions: Office Environment Posting Number: 65478 Reports to: Sr Director Tech Services & Platform We are aware of a fraudulent website that appears to mimic the Purolator careers page. Official job postings from Purolator are shared on www.purolator.com/careers or https://careers.purolator.com . Please ensure any job applications are made directly on these websites. Please note, Purolator will never ask an applicant to make a financial transaction for equipment as part of its recruitment process. Purolator is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, Aboriginal/Indigenous status, or any other factors considered discriminatory. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, we will work with you to meet your needs. We recognize that our employees and their families are key stakeholders. We will only be successful as a business if we provide our employees with a safe and healthy workplace, and we have the right people in the right roles with the support they need to succeed. We hire for attitude and train for skills. To learn more about us and our values, go to www.purolator.com. At Purolator, every day is an opportunity for our employees to connect with one another and with our customers to help make a positive impact in the communities where we live, work and play. LI-HYBRID

Location: Mississauga, CA

Posted Date: 10/4/2024