Solution Architect - Backbase (Future Opportunity)

Future Opportunity - Talent Pool
At Aequilibrium, we are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team. Even if this specific role isn’t the perfect fit, we encourage you to apply and let us get to know you. We value skills, passion, and potential, and there may be future opportunities that align with your experience and aspirations. By submitting your application, you'll join our talent pool and be among the first to hear about new roles that match your profile. Your next career step could be just around the corner. We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only selected individuals will be contacted. 
Solution Architect

We're looking for a Solution Architect with Backbase experience to join our team! When you join Aequilibrium, you get to be a part of a fun and agile company driving innovative change in FinTech and VR. We’re looking for a strong team member who wants to contribute to our incredible culture, make a meaningful impact on client deliverables, and work collaboratively with an award-winning team. 
While Aequilibrium is a Vancouver, Canada based company, we are happy to consider candidates all over the world as we are a fully remote organization.

Who You Are

• As a Solution Architect, it’s your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. 
• You're equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations. 
• You have the ability to find the scope in large-scale, complex projects.
• You are the vital mainstay for the development team during the implementation processes. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen sense of their needs.
• You have experience with leading development teams.
• You're comfortable talking highly specific technical details and discussing general business outcomes with the ability to translate customer requirements into a distinguished design.
• You dedicate yourself to security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability, and serviceability.
• You know our projects will be delivered according to briefing, time, and budget, but you also know our technicians need their space to build the solutions you’ve defined.
• Experience with creating technical architecture documentation, working with the QA lead to define the test strategy, leading DevOps to define and implement CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring that implementations meet non-functional requirements.
• You are able to travel a significant amount of the time, spending time on-site during the inception phase and when providing training and workshops.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of the Java platform.
• Experience with creating solutions for financial services (especially banking).
• Experience with Spring, Maven, and Jenkins;
• A strong demonstrable understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), as well as Micro-Services Architecture.
• Solid experience with JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns, and principles of REST APIs, ideally including RAML and/or OpenAPI.
• Strong knowledge of architectural frameworks best practices.
• Professional experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks.
• Broad operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers, and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working with the Backbase platform.
• Experience with Portal/Web Content Management.
• Familiarity with architectural patterns, such as Microservices, CQRS, and event sourcing.
• Experience with server virtualization and container technology such as Docker, VMWare, HyperV.
• Professional experience with Integration Platforms, API Gateway, etc.

Location

This is a 100% full-time remote position, however, candidates based outside of Canada will be required to work for the company as independent contractors.
Compensation
The salary range for this position is CAD $90K-$150K annually (or the equivalent hourly rate for candidates outside of Canada, who will be working as Contractors). The salary/rate offered will be based on skills and experience.

About AEQ

Aequilibrium is a technology professional services organization voted multiple times among the Top 5 Best Companies in BC to work for, consistently ranked among the Top 5 Digital Agencies in Vancouver, and winner of multiple VancouverUX Awards for product design. We bring together product managers, designers, and developers dedicated to creating winning web, mobile and VR solutions. Our team uses Agile methodologies and Lean Startup principles to deliver our clients’ projects faster and with less risk. 

If you feel you’ll thrive in this environment and can make a meaningful contribution, please apply today!
Some of Our Benefits

We offer our full-time employees:

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-first location
• Medical, dental, and extended health benefits (premiums covered in full by the company!)
• Employee bonus programs
• Team-bonding events

Learn more about our team:  aequilibrium.com/careers

Please note 

At Aequilibrium, we seek candidates who will contribute to our culture of valuing, respecting, supporting, and caring for each other. Diversity of thought and perspectives is critical to our success, and all applicants are considered regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, age, disability, marital status, heritage, or religion or political beliefs.

Aequilibrium is trusted with highly sensitive information. Upon joining our team, you may be asked to undergo security screenings, including a criminal record check.

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