Cloud Solutions Architect

at  CGI

We are Canada’s largest independent information technology services firm, and after 40 years, we’re still growing! Join Canada’s largest IT Company as a Cloud Solutions Architect, with our Banking team in Toronto.
Innovation, technology, and service delivery are our focus. Our goal is to ensure our clients remain ahead of the competition. We provide a full spectrum of managed services from IT and business process outsourcing to systems integration and consulting that are transforming our clients’ operations and helping them to succeed.
This role is hybrid and requires you to be at Toronto Downtown for minimum 2-3 days per week - subject to change at any time.

Has the responsibility for the architecture (including models, decisions, validation, evolution and delivery support) of complex and/or large solutions across the spectrum of business capabilities and services, software and infrastructure components. Focuses on the full solution rather than concerns for specific components (unless these concerns have systemic impact). Solutions can consist of new systems, but can also be a coherent set of changes to an existing system or landscape – as long as it addresses a defined stakeholder goal. Ensures alignment between business, IT delivery and operations, usually considering financial aspects like risk, cost and business cases.

• Communicates with business, delivery and operational stakeholders about the end-to-end solution
• Identifies, prioritizes and addresses concerns related to the solution, including risk and financial aspects (business cases)
• Makes or guides architectural decisions
• Models the solution’s context, structure and financial aspects
• Assures that the solution fulfils its present and anticipated end-to-end architectural requirements and financial constraints by analysis, validation, modelling and road mapping
• Supports teams delivering and operating the solutio

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Has the responsibility for the architecture (including models, decisions, validation, evolution and delivery support) of complex and/or large solutions across the spectrum of business capabilities and services, software and infrastructure components. Focuses on the full solution rather than concerns for specific components (unless these concerns have systemic impact). Solutions can consist of new systems, but can also be a coherent set of changes to an existing system or landscape – as long as it addresses a defined stakeholder goal. Ensures alignment between business, IT delivery and operations, usually considering financial aspects like risk, cost and business cases.

• Communicates with business, delivery and operational stakeholders about the end-to-end solution
• Identifies, prioritizes and addresses concerns related to the solution, including risk and financial aspects (business cases)
• Makes or guides architectural decisions
• Models the solution’s context, structure and financial aspects
• Assures that the solution fulfils its present and anticipated end-to-end architectural requirements and financial constraints by analysis, validation, modelling and road mapping
• Supports teams delivering and operating the solution

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

• Solution design: use modelling, decision making and validation techniques to design a solution that fulfils business needs
• Expertise in Azure, J2EE, Solution Arch, Cloud Computing, OpenShift, IaaS Cloud, API Technlogies, Azure API Gateway
• Integration: create a coherent solution that integrates diverse technology and business aspects
• Business analysis: understand and validate stakeholder needs
• Change delivery: drive transformation
• Cost modelling: analyze financial and risk aspects of solutions