Application Architect

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Are you an Application Architect Insurance looking for a new opportunity?

Are you looking for a new contract opportunity?

We are pleased to offer you a new contract opportunity for you to consider:

Role

Application Architect

• Start: ASAP
• Estimated length: 12 months
• Location: North York
• Remote Policy: Hybrid remote work- couple of times per month required in office

Advantages

• You will have an opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate design, development (including code reviews), testing and deployment activities, working closely with multiple vendors
• Determine technical feasibility and perform analysis and evaluation of proposed solutions
• Improve business and software operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes
• Review and validate vendor assessments
• Perform capacity planning and coordinate performance testing accordingly
• Oversee and assist the vendors and project teams in all test phases (system testing, functional testing etc.)
• Participate in deployment strategy development with the Deployment primes
• Build executive presentations and communicate release changes (technical) to the support teams
• Occasional assistance to the production support teams to resolve production issues

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software / Computer Engineering or similar.
• Experience:
  • Recent experience working as a Solution Architect or a Team Lead in a large enterprise IT organization mandatory
  • Strong software development/programming background with significant hands-on experience in building large-scale production systems mandatory
  • Cloud computing – nice to have
• Knowledge:
  • Familiarity with company Ordering systems (OrderMax, OMF, CPQ, MDM, CSIDE) and/or client Systems
  • Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP cloud platforms
  • Understanding of software architecture patterns and practices – mandatory
  • General understanding of network concepts (OSI model, basic network principles, etc.)
  • General understanding of hardware / hosting platforms and virtualization
  • General understanding of IT standards and frameworks (ITIL, ETOM, Zachman, TOGAF etc.)
  • General understanding of TM Forum TMF620, TMF622, TMF633, TMF41, TMF679, TMF648, TMF680

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong technical writing skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Excellent ability to formulate ideas and influence vendors at design
• Excellent ability to articulate technical problems to non-technical audience
• Autonomous, tolerance to a fast paced, fast changing environment
• Strong team player; ability to facilitate, negotiate and work within a multi-domain team environment
• Ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies, languages, frameworks and tools
• Creativity and ingenuity
• Bilingualism an asset

Summary

Do you have this experience? If you answer YES, then please apply IMMEDIATELY to so we can then discuss your experience and interest in this opportunity!