Solutions Architect

About the role

As part of the RBC Bank Architecture team, a Solutions Architect evaluates, creates, and improves solutions for all product categories in the bank and plays a key role in technology management and architectural governance across the organization. In addition to designing solutions, you will establish best practices, lead successful implementations, and be a key partner to business throughout the entire lifecycle of product development. The role coordinates, develops, leads, communicates, and executes activities to ensure objectives are accomplished on time.

Apart from your technical knowledge and curiosity, passion for the quality of your work, zeal for learning, and ability to articulate and enunciate complex concepts will be strong assets for success in this position.

Responsibilities

• Design large or complex solutions, including system and application architecture, in accordance with industry best practices, RBC standards, and strategies.
• Create end-to-end application enterprise architectures that are secure, extensible, available, performant, scalable, and compliant with RBC standards and industry best practices.
• Identify weaknesses in or further optimize existing architectures and design improvements based on the principles above.
• Identify and apply tooling to measure these attributes, develop and monitor KPIs and KRIs around them.
• Take each solution through RBC’s solution governance process from inception to completion, including:
  • Documenting current and new architectures.
  • Proposing alternate solutions to mitigate gaps and risks, and logging Architectural Decisions (ADs).
  • Using expertise to vote on the best solution.
• Mentor development teams in best practices, including hands-on development of Proof of Concepts to demonstrate architectural patterns.
• Manage implementation of large complex initiatives, plan technical development activities, and communicate risks.
• Stay on top of industry trends and apply best practices in front-end, back-end, platform, and data architecture.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs and SOAP web services using Java or .NET-based microservice architectures on cloud-native platforms like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry.
• Complete familiarity with modern distributed computing concepts and their application in IaaS/PaaS solutions from Azure and AWS, including:
  • Containers
  • Serverless
  • Service meshes
  • Immutable architectures
  • Declarative APIs
• Strong understanding of application security best practices, including:
  • Encryption for storage and transmission (APIs)
  • IAM concepts like SSO and federation
  • Token and certificate management
• Extensive experience with database development using SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle.
• Thorough understanding of RDBMS design principles and writing queries.
• Thorough understanding of web-based application architecture, including web servers, firewalls, CDNs, application frameworks, and interoperability.

Nice to have

• Experience with low-code platforms and ecosystems like Salesforce, OutSystems, Power, and Blue Prism.
• Experience with message bus/queuing architectures like MQ and Kafka.
• Strong proficiency with front-end technologies like Angular, React, HTML5, and CSS3, including:
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards like WCAG 2.0 and implementing to the standards.
  • Experience implementing internationalization and localization standards (i18n, l10n).
• Experience with NoSQL databases.