Senior Solution Architect

🔥 15 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $132k - $170.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Thales

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1893

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Defense • Logistics • Consulting

Thales is a global technology leader specializing in advanced aerospace, defense, and security solutions. The company develops innovative systems that integrate cutting-edge AI technologies to provide trusted services and products across various industries, including secure data communication and smart transportation. Thales is committed to sustainability and corporate responsibility, ensuring digital ethics and diversity within its workforce while pushing the boundaries of technology for a safer and more connected world.

📋 Description

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to design, guide, and support implementation of technology solutions • Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution designs aligned with NORAM and Thales enterprise architecture standards, technology strategies, and organizational objectives • Evaluate business requirements and develop solution architectures • Support project delivery teams and ensure technology solutions achieve desired business outcomes while optimizing costs and managing risk • Build and maintain relationships with project teams and regional technical stakeholders • Communicate the value of solution architecture designs and provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle • Guide project teams and technical SMEs in translating business requirements into enterprise solution architectures • Develop and maintain logical, physical, integration, security, data, and infrastructure architecture artifacts • Evaluate solution alternatives and recommend implementation approaches based on business value, technical feasibility, cost, risk, and operational considerations • Ensure solution designs comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and regulatory requirements • Own architecture reviews, present solution designs, resolve governance findings, and secure architectural approval • Identify and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and implementation challenges • Design integration approaches across applications, platforms, infrastructure, data sources, and external partners • Lead cross-functional collaboration with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, network, and application teams • Document architecture decisions, technical assumptions, and implementation guidance • Contribute to architecture methods, templates, standards, and reusable design patterns • Share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned • Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies, platforms, and vendor solutions • Advocate for secure, sustainable, supportable designs that maximize business value and minimize complexity and technical debt

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field • Twelve or more years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline • Eight or more years of experience designing and implementing complex business and technology solutions across multiple technology domains • Experience leading architecture activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational transition • Hands-on experience in at least three technical disciplines such as application development, cloud platforms, systems integration, infrastructure services, data management, cybersecurity, networking, or enterprise applications • Strong knowledge of architecture governance processes and participation in architecture review and design authority activities • Mastery level knowledge of solution architecture principles, design methodologies, and systems integration practices • Experience designing solutions utilizing cloud services, SaaS platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and hybrid environments • Understanding of application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure architecture disciplines and their interactions within end-to-end solutions • Ability to independently evaluate technology alternatives and develop solution recommendations based on functionality, cost, risk, supportability, and alignment with business requirements • Mastery level knowledge of non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, scalability, performance, maintainability, and disaster recovery • TOGAF Foundation or Certified • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent cloud certifications • ITIL Foundation certification • SAFe Architect, SAFe Agilist, or other Agile-related certifications • Eligibility for or ability to obtain authorization for access to Canadian export-controlled hardware, software, and technical information • Eligibility for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program • Ability to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program • Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period • Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave • Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability • Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership • Accommodations throughout the interview process • Full-time employee benefits for employees working 24 or more hours per week and eligible dependents