Solutions Architect

About the role

Every transaction matters. Every Canadian matters. At Interac, we protect both - driving trust, security, and inclusion, so our digital economy thrives. Founded in 1984, Interac connects Canadians through secure digital payments, advanced identity verification and industry-leading fraud protection. Connecting banks, businesses, and individuals, Interac enables millions to send, receive, and manage money safely and effortlessly every day - across both digital and physical environments. As the backbone of Canada's financial ecosystem, Interac facilitates over 20 million transactions daily, supported by trusted partnerships with government and financial institutions. Consistently ranked as Canada's most reputable financial technology brand, Interac is deeply embedded in the daily lives of Canadians. Who You Will Work With: The vacant Solution Architect role will report to the Leader, Product Foundation. You'll collaborate with a diverse network of leaders, architects, and engineering teams to shape the future of secure, scalable money movement. Partnering closely with Product, platform, and client stakeholders, you'll influence end-to-end architecture strategies across cloud, applications, and data. This role sits at the center of innovation-bringing together cross-functional expertise to design modern, resilient, and compliant solutions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy hybrid, multi ‑ cloud, and cloud ‑ native architectures for money movement transformation initiatives aligned to client business requirements
• Own solution architecture across infrastructure strategy, systems strategy, application architecture, communications strategy, and data center strategy
• Lead creation of Solution Architecture, High ‑ Level Design (HLD), and Low ‑ Level Design (LLD) deliverables in collaboration with client architects and internal teams
• Define end ‑ to ‑ end application architecture including application decomposition, layering, component design, and technology selection
• Design API ‑ first, event ‑ driven, and microservices ‑ based application architectures
• Define integration architecture across internal systems, external partners, and third ‑ party platforms
• Design data architecture including logical and physical data models, ERDs, data flows, and persistence strategies
• Create and review architecture artifacts including UML diagrams, ERDs, system interaction diagrams, and integration diagrams
• Provide expertise in hybrid cloud platform security, governance, and compliance aligned to regulatory and payments requirements
• Demonstrate strong understanding of hybrid cloud platforms including OpenShift, and AWS, and cloud service consumption models
• Design cost ‑ effective, scalable, and resilient cloud and application solutions
• Define and design High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across application, platform, and data layers
• Apply architecture best practices using reference architectures, industry patterns, and reusable service assets
• Own accountability for solution performance, availability, scalability, resiliency, and security and assess impact on client infrastructure and application ecosystems
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, and DevOps teams to define automation strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes
• What You Bring:
• 10+ years of experience in the design and delivery of complex, large ‑ scale IT projects
• 3+ years of experience as a Solution Architect providing hands ‑ on technical leadership for end ‑ to ‑ end design, delivery, and management of hybrid cloud solutions using AWS, and OpenShift.
• Cloud Solution Architect certification with a major cloud provider such as AWS, or OCP
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud ‑ native solutions using microservices, containers, and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Strong experience in REST API design, API gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standards, and OAuth ‑ based security
• Experience leading large programs delivered using globally distributed teams across onsite, nearshore, and offshore models
• Strong experience working with Agile delivery methods and DevOps practices
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, fault ‑ tolerant, and resilient systems
• Solid understanding of data center concepts and best practices including high availability, capacity planning, performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques
• What We're Offering:
• Generous vacation and wellness days to help you recharge
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage for peace of mind
• Market-leading empl

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