Application Solutions Architect - Tangerine

Requisition ID: 208967

Tangerine is Canada’s leading direct bank. We offer flexible and accessible banking options, innovative products, and award-winning Client service. The reason why Tangerine employees come to work each day is to help Canadians live better lives. We focus on making a difference in our communities, and that includes our own internal community. It’s important to us that our employees feel empowered and enthusiastic about belonging to our Orange culture.

As Canada’s leading digital bank, Tangerine technology is at the heart of everything we do. We have redefined what digital banking is and we continue to evolve on what it can be, using technology to create innovative, forward thinking banking solutions with our clients’ needs in mind. We are made up of high performing, curious, energetic and collaborative individuals who thrive in our high trust agile environment to deliver best in class solutions for our customers. We believe in giving people hands-on challenges and the responsibilities that come with them, allowing them to grow, evolve and create opportunities to build their career. Are you ready to make the change and become part of an established disruptor with the backing of a highly engaged team? If so come join us and help redefine the Canadian banking landscape!

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

As an Application Solutions Architect, you will be joining a team that is guiding Tangerine engineering delivery teams in designing and building world-class digital products and compelling Client Experience. We're looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators, and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

By joining our team, you will have an opportunity to elevate both our technical platform and delivery practices to levels that the industry will want to mimic, while delivering to our current commitments. You will provide overall leadership and technical guidance that enables creative delivery of solutions spanning mobile and web applications, integrations, backend services and APIs.

You will take responsibility for refining the application architecture and technical delivery ‘vision’, ensuring that every member of the team keeps that vision clearly in mind. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture towards refining the engineering roadmap and will work with other Engineering leaders and stakeholders on applying the engineering OKRs to optimize strategic Engineering KPI’s.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• You have an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent
• You have 10+ years of software development experience with clear progression through various roles leading with at least 3 years of experience providing hands-on architectural design for software applications with proven track record of building a product and taking it to market
• Ample knowledge of enterprise technologies, including and not limited to, J2EE, Cloud, containers, APIs, ReST, Caching, and enterprise application integration and system design.
• You relentlessly pursue systemic avenues to address issues proactively, through ongoing refinement of technical platform and delivery model
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• Experience in Agile, DevOps and all things iterative
• Hands on knowledge of Microservices, design patterns, cloud native development.
• Knowledge of SRE practices and performance tuning are an asset.
• Able to coach and are a hands-on polyglot that can program still and lives in the code with full-stack capability. Comfortable designing a service one day and building UI the next or designing and building a brand-new framework leveraging cutting-edge technologies.
• You are focused on converting high level requirements into the architecture and design that ultimately constitute the blueprint for the solution. In that process, you will rely on using design patterns established by other enterprise teams and previous engagements and align with the enterprise architecture roadmap.
• You will review and provide feedback to developer approaches to promote consistency, scalability, reuse, robustness, security, performance, and quality.
• You will validate new technologies and industry best practices to drive innovation and elevate engineering practices and guidelines
• You are a perpetual pragmatist and can bring concepts to reality.

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• Dress codes don't apply here, being comfortable does
• Onsite subsidized cafeteria with a chef!
• Access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can brush up on skills or learn new ones
• Career progression opportunities. We hire you for your talent and not just for the job. We want to see you succeed not just in your role but in your career as a whole
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), vacation, personal & sick days, paternity/maternity leave, medical, vision and dental benefits and much more

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.