The Job: Solution Architect, Digital As a Solution Architect, you will serve as the technical design authority for MFSG's digital platforms and customer-facing experiences. You will translate business strategy and product ambition into secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution architectures, while remaining close enough to the technology to prototype, review designs, and resolve complex technical questions.
You will partner with engineering, product, enterprise architecture, security, and business stakeholders to define target-state architecture, guide delivery teams through implementation, and ensure solutions meet MFSG's standards for security, resilience, performance, and regulatory compliance. Broad full-stack and integration knowledge is valuable; however, this role has a strong emphasis on cloud-native architecture, API and integration design, and AWS technologies.
What You'll DoSolution Architecture and Design- Define end-to-end solution architectures for digital products, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
- Produce clear architecture artifacts, including context diagrams, sequence flows, integration maps, and decision records.
- Evaluate build, buy, and platform options, and recommend approaches based on business value, risk, and total cost of ownership.
- Prototype and validate architectural approaches to reduce delivery risk before committing teams to a direction.
Security, Compliance, and Engineering Quality- Embed secure-by-design principles, ensuring solutions protect sensitive financial and customer information.
- Define authentication, authorization, encryption, data-residency, and secrets-management patterns for digital solutions.
- Ensure non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, resilience, availability, observability, and performance are explicitly designed and testable.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, and hold delivery teams accountable to agreed patterns and standards.
- Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to satisfy regulatory and audit requirements.
Delivery and Cross-Functional Collaboration- Partner with product managers, business analysts, engineering leads, QA engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Break complex initiatives into achievable delivery increments and provide reliable architectural estimates and sequencing.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and impediments early and drive them to resolution.
- Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
- Remain engaged through the full lifecycle, from discovery and design through production adoption and post-launch review.
AI-Enabled Architecture and Continuous Improvement- Apply AI-assisted tools effectively to accelerate design exploration, documentation, diagramming, and architecture review.
- Design pragmatic patterns for integrating AI and machine-learning capabilities into digital products, including data, guardrail, and governance considerations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities based on measurable business and engineering value.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify the estate, and improve delivery speed, quality, and operational reliability.
Technical Leadership and Enablement- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams, providing hands-on guidance, mentoring, and design coaching.
- Establish and socialize reference architectures, reusable patterns, and architecture standards across teams.
- Build alignment across multiple delivery teams and vendors without relying solely on formal authority.
- Contribute to technology roadmaps, platform strategy, and investment planning.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture where architecture decisions are transparent and openly challenged.
What You'll Bring to the Table- Proven experience designing enterprise-grade digital solutions, including customer-facing web and mobile experiences.
- Strong hands-on background in backend and API development, ideally with C#, .NET, and ASP.NET Core.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native architecture, including serverless, containers, and event-driven design.
- Experience with relevant AWS capabilities such as Lambda, ECS or EKS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Strong expertise in integration architecture, including REST, event streaming, messaging, and third-party or vendor integration.
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, data flows, and performance optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of modern frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Practical experience with application security, identity and access management, observability, resiliency, and production support.
- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience using AI tools to improve architecture, documentation, and engineering productivity is considered an asset.
Education and Experience- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of 12 years of professional software development or engineering experience.
- Minimum of 6 years in a solution architect, technical architect, principal engineer, or comparable technical-leadership role.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade solutions using .NET and AWS.
- Experience working in Agile product-delivery environments.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect, are considered an asset.
- Experience in financial services, payments, or another highly regulated industry is considered an asset.
Ready to shape the architecture behind digital products that customers rely on every day? Join us to design secure, scalable platforms, guide high-performing engineering teams, and help define the future of digital solutions at MFSG.
