Solution Architect

Vancouver

Full Time

What We Are About

At Fastloop, we have a deep passion for helping businesses build for the future.

This comes to life based on our adoption of leading technologies and best-in class business expertise within our three core pillars of excellence: Big Data, Cloud Technology and Advanced Analytics.  

We are not your typical consultants. We are business operators and technology experts who understand how businesses work from the inside.  

Fastloopers are problem solvers and like to roll up their sleeves and get in the trenches with our customers. We genuinely enjoy helping organizations make sense of their data and their infrastructure, so they can realize new competitive advantages and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Fastloop is based in Vancouver, Canada, but provides a flexible and hybrid working environment to candidates across North America.

About the Opportunity

As a Fastloop Solution Architect, you will provide technical leadership, helping clients leverage technology to accelerate their strategic goals. You’ll be consistently engaged in active planning, problem solving and solutioning with cross-functional teams, from consulting to higher-level technical guidance, analysis and mentoring. Leading and defining technical requirements and core decisions, you’ll ensure the technical excellence of solutions to help our clients accelerate their business in hyper competitive environments.  

The Solution Architect will possess a passion for understanding the underlying drivers across business sectors, industries and broader market trends with the ability to marry these together into technical solutions that accelerate business strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a technical leader across all aspects of solutioning including IT roadmap / conceptual architecture, technical due diligence / planning, design and solution delivery;
  • Drive technical requirement workshops and translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage technology platform/product investments;
  • Review and provide input on detailed design specifications, infrastructure and project plans;
  • Assess business and technical impact of solutions to understand trade-offs, workarounds and technical debt that will be incurred;
  • Design custom digital solutions that leverage best in class assets, accelerators or platforms while leveraging best practices and maintaining technical responsibility for successful project delivery;
  • Provide trusted advice on how digital transformation and technology enablement can lead to improved performance;
  • Evaluate potential solution elements using a formal methodology and select the most appropriate solutions based on business and technical requirements;
  • Provide feedback to the team about new or emerging client needs and demonstrate an understanding of Fastloop’s key competitive capabilities and value propositions for relevant clients; and, 
  • Coach and mentor junior technical and functional team members.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Must-Have

  • 2+ years experience in solution and application architecture leveraging modern development platforms;
  • Minimum of 2+ years in technology delivery roles such as Technical Lead or Architect, SCRUM Master, Application Owner/Manager, Agile Coach, and Consulting (Integration and/or Delivery) role;
  • University degree/Technical Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent experience demonstrated by progressive responsibilities;
  • Relevant experience in software engineering and understanding / leveraging design patterns;
  • Subject matter expertise in Integration Architecture, governance, and Cloud technologies and implementation;
  • Experience with at least one major Public Cloud Technology (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS) with willingness to learn depending on client’s needs;
  • Experience with both batch & real-time integration technologies such as ETL / ELT, APIs, etc
  • Solid understanding across all architectural domains (business, application, data / information, technology) from conceptual to physical perspectives;
  • Experience in assessing a broad range of information solutions and products; 
  • Team-player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions;
  • Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating out of the box problem solving skills and ability to develop solution architecture designs; 
  • Able to work in highly flexible, start-up, fast paced environment; and,  
  • Passion for technology, business, customer experience, innovation, and digital solutions.  

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with digital ecosystems such as Salesforce, Adobe, SAS, Google, Microsoft etc.

Due to the number of candidates, we will only contact those who will be shortlisted for interviews.

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