Solutions Architect

You will join a dynamic, highly collaborative Platform Engineering team to accelerate our transformation into a cloud-native application. Our team believes in owning and supporting our entire technology stack and practices the mantra: ‘Code it, Ship it, Run it.’ We pride ourselves on building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their career. We believe that different experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and skills result in an adaptive, creative, high-performing team. As a community of software professionals, we are continually growing and learning to keep up with the fast pace of the software industry.

What you'll be doing daily:

• Working with the Project Manager to understand the priority of deliverables
• Working with each of the product owners to define the technical requirements and deliverables that each scrum team will execute against
• Providing feedback into the backlog grooming process
• Developing technical architecture documentation along with defining technical requirements to achieve desired business objectives
• Work with each of the Scrum teams to ensure provided deliverables are achieved to the architecture and required designs
• Provide leadership and direction when questions arise in technical situations to ensure security and quality are at the forefront

• 5+ years of experience as a software architect
• 5+ years of working in an agile based software development environment
• 5+ years of experience with issue and bug tracking products (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Effectively copes with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
• Uses an organized and logical approach to finding solutions to complex problems, looking beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of the problem, and proposes several possible solutions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, proven ability and experience in communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You have a passion for architecting technical solutions
• You have a passion for developing tactical technical requirements that are un-ambiguous
• You have a passion for ensuring high-quality agile processes are continuously followed as a culture along with instilling that culture to the utmost

• Work onsite in Saint John, Canada up to 3 days a week collaborating with the team
• Work hours are Monday - Friday, normal 37.5 hour week
• Type of job: Temporary Contractor – 1 year
• Date candidate required: Immediate
• Location: Montreal