Solution Architect

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We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

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Are you a technical problem-solver who has a background in software development or experience in multiple areas of technology, and an understanding of software delivery and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?

What we are looking for:

• Breadth of technical experience, not depth

• Ability to explain complex concepts in a simplified manner

• History of collaboration with other technical teams such as cyber, data governance, systems engineering, etc.

• Ability to dive-in and take on a wide variety of different technical challenges

• Able to work with minimal direction and supervision, seeing projects through end to end

• Currently performing as a Solution Architect, or any of the following: Business Systems Analyst, Delivery Lead, Technical Project Manager, Software Engineer, looking to take their career to the next level.

In this role you will ensure alignment between IT and Business, foster innovation and support business and IT strategies.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:

• Build new solutions that deliver value to the Business’ objectives

• Creating current and future state architecture diagrams of the systems and data capabilities required for project delivery

• Creating internal and external partnerships to enable business success

• Efficiently and diligently following OMERS technology governance processes to enable successful delivery of technology solutions

• Ensuring that the solution architectures delivered by projects are fit for purpose and adhere to sound IT practices and to OMERS principles and standards 

To succeed in this role, you have:

 Technical

• A post-secondary degree in Math, Computer Science, Engineering, or similar

• A minimum 5 years of varied experience in the IT industry with various technology domains, application development practices and IT operations

• Familiarity of solution delivery and software development practices, application release and deployment, and automated testing, including source code control, build / package, environment configuration and monitoring

• Solution Architecture experience in one or more of the following business and technology areas is preferred: Corporate Functions, Finance, HR, Legal, Audit, Communications, Real Estate

• Nice to have experience in adopting and transitioning to cloud technologies from existing architectures

• Cloud certification (AWS, Google, Azure, etc.) is a plus

• Nice to have knowledge of cloud architectures and deployment models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)

Strategic

• The ability to work well at a conceptual level, resolve ambiguity, and to drive concepts into workable and practical solutions to achieve a target state 

• Knowledge across various technology architecture domains and practices; capable of driving from architecture to design & implementation

• Experience with on-premise, cloud or SaaS systems

 Leadership

• Experience facilitating sessions, helping participants reach decisions and accomplish goals

• The ability to support our team on architectural concepts and processes

• The ability to take initiative and willingness to learn something new

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.