Solutions Architect
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Job Description
What is the opportunity?
The RBC Bank Architecture team evaluates, creates, and improves solutions for all product categories in the bank; and plays a key role in technology management and architectural governance across the organization. In addition to designing solutions, in this role, you will be establishing best practices, leading successful implementations of solutions and be a key partner to business throughout the entire lifecycle of product development. The role will coordinate, develop, lead, communicate and execute activities to ensure objectives are accomplished according on time.
What will you do?
- Design large or complex solutions, including system and application architecture, in accordance with industry best practices, RBC standards and strategies
- Create end to end application enterprise architectures that are
- Secure
- Extensible
- Available and Performant
- Scalable
- Compliant with RBC standards and industry best practices
- Identify weaknesses with or further optimize existing architectures and design improvements based on the principles mentioned above
- Identify and apply tooling to measure these attributes, develop and monitor KPIs and KRIs around them
- Take each solution through in RBC's solution governance process from inception to completion, including
- Documenting current and new architectures
- Proposing alternate solutions to mitigate gaps and risks, and logging "AD"s (Architectural Decisions)
- Using your expertise to vote on the best solution
- Mentor development teams in best practices, including hands-on development of Proof of Concepts to demonstrate architectural pattern
- Manage implementation of large complex initiatives, plan technical development activities and communicate risks
- Stay on top of industry trends and applying best practices in front end, backend, platform and data architecture
What do you need to succeed ?
Must Have
- Hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs and SOAP webservices using Java or .Net based microservice architectures on cloud native platforms like OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
- Complete familiarity with modern distributed computing concepts and how they are applied in IAAS / PaaS solutions from Azure and AWS including:
- Containers
- Serverless
- Service Meshes
- Immutable architectures
- Declarative APIs
- Strong understanding of application security best practices including
- Encryption for storage and transmission (APIs)
- IAM concepts like SSO and federation
- Token and certificate management
- Extensive experience with database development using SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle
- Thorough understanding of RDBMS design principles and writing queries.
- Thorough understanding of web-based application architecture including webservers, firewalls, CDNs, application frameworks and interoperability
Nice to have
- Experience with Low code platforms and ecosystems like PEGA, Blue Prism
- Experience with message bus/queuing architectures like MQ, Kafka
- Strong proficiency with front end technologies like Angular, React, HTML5, CSS3 including
- Knowledge of accessibility standards like WCAG 2.0 and implementing to the standards.
- Experience implementing internationalization and localization standards (i18n, l10n)
- Experience with NoSQL databases
What's in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work
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Job Skills
Angular, Application Architecture Design, Azure Active Directory (AD), Back-End Development, Cloud Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Enterprise System Architecture, Java Enterprise Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Microsoft Azure, Mobile App Architecture, Mobile Development, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, Web Application Architecture, Web Services ArchitectureAdditional Job Details
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