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About the Role

The Solution Architect role is responsible for providing technical leadership and leading the design of business-critical, integrated applications managed by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) IT Systems Office. This role plays a key part in Enterprise Architecture governance, aligning complex business requirements with modern technology stacks. As a subject matter expert, they offer technical leadership and strategic advice to ensure architectural integrity, reduce technical debt, and mitigate integration risks.

Responsibilities

Provides leadership and in-depth technical expertise in the design and development of CSA National systems solution architecture.
Works with CSA ITSO management, current vendors and CSA jurisdictions technical teams to ensure applications meet current and future requirements and cross-jurisdictional stakeholder business needs.
Defines and maintains the target architecture, ensuring all solutions align with the CSA’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and long-term business goals.
Leads the design and implementation of standardized applications for multi-jurisdictional requirements, ensuring system support capabilities are calibrated for high-quality output.
Defines patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud-native services, managing the complexity of components across cloud, on-premise, and national system environments.
Oversees and maintains the Solution Architecture repository, ensuring all Application, Data, and Integration artifacts are maintained to reflect the current and future state.
Enforces architectural policies and standards to ensure data and services are consistently defined and managed across all CSA systems.
Manages and reviews change requests to assess design impacts on system development strategies, ensuring architectural integrity.
Oversees the production of design-phase deliverables (technical designs, process flows, data mappings) to ensure they meet established governance frameworks.
Leverages AI and automation technologies to improve solution design quality, streamline development processes, enhance code analysis, and support architectural modelling and decision making.
Performs assessments of new product and solutions, analyzing technical feasibility, architectural alignment, integration impacts, and security considerations, and provides accurate estimations of effort, complexity, and delivery risks.
Identifies and integrates new technology capabilities that enhance stakeholder functionality and modernize legacy business processes.
Contributes to the Technology and EA portfolio roadmaps, providing expert input to identify and prioritize high-value initiatives.
Provides guidance and subject matter expertise to development teams and business owners throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide architectural oversight and advisory support to Operations, ensuring long-term system stability and supportability.
Acts as the architectural liaison between EA team, jurisdiction technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure technical solutions solve real-world business problems.
Manages the technical relationship with external vendors, ensuring their deliverables meet CSA architectural specifications, managing the integration of COTS products and ensure architecture alignment.

Requirements

University degree education, preferably specializing in Information Systems or Engineering.
10 or more years of professional experience in Information Technology, with 5 or more of those years in solution architecture planning, design, development, implementation and maintenance.
Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into comprehensive end‑to‑end logical architectures.
Evaluate solution options to provide well-reasoned recommendations.
Utilize layered design (presentation, application, domain, data) and UML modeling to ensure scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Lead design activities, reviewing architectural artifacts while coaching, and mentoring development teams on design, architectural patterns best practices to elevate overall team capability.
Strong ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues across application, integration, and data layers, using systematic diagnostic methods to identify root causes and tune algorithms for computational efficiency to optimize system behavior.
Able to assess new product features and vendor‑proposed solutions for feasibility, architectural impact, risk, security and providing accurate effort and complexity estimations.
Experienced in reverse‑engineering existing codebases (Java, Python, front‑end frameworks, legacy components) to understand system logic, uncover defects, and design effective remediation or modernization approaches.
Ability to work effectively with a diverse set of independent organizations and individuals to drive consensus and alignment.
Able to bridge the gap between technology architecture and complex business needs, ensuring technical directions support organizational functions and processes.
Assumes full accountability for deliverables and timelines while maintaining high standards of conscientiousness.
Able to work with high autonomy within a team environment, making sound decisions based on expert knowledge and professional judgment.
Expert ability to convey complex technical concepts in business terms, effectively articulating issues to senior management and decision-makers.
Able to balance technical excellence with business objectives, cost, and time-to-delivery, ensuring risks are minimized without stalling progress.
Proactively identifies bottlenecks and provides innovative, alternative solutions through deep critical thinking and situational analysis.
Uses a variety of methods and styles to suit different audiences, ensuring clarity and confidence in the decision-making process.
Demonstrated effective facilitation skills to influence outcomes that benefit all parties.
Clear and concise communication skills, both oral and written.

Skills

Java/J2EE
Spring
API
Python
Modern Front-end frameworks (Angular, Node.js)
Cloud environments (Azure preferred)
Kubernetes
Apache Spark
Agile (desired)

Location

Ontario

Work Type

Regular
Full time

Experience Level

10 or more years of professional experience in Information Technology
5 or more years in solution architecture planning, design, development, implementation and maintenance

Education Level

University degree in Information Systems or Engineering

About the Company

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is the statutory body responsible for regulating Ontario’s capital markets.
The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices, to foster fair, efficient and competitive capital markets and confidence in the capital markets, to foster capital formation, and to contribute to the stability of the financial system and the reduction of systemic risk.
The OSC offers a diverse, fair, and flexible work environment and takes pride in its challenging and rewarding work.
The CSA operates, through various agreements, a number of shared information technology systems that serve securities regulatory purposes and functions.
The operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the CSA National Systems are managed by the CSA IT Systems Office which is co-located within the premises of the Ontario Securities Commission.
At the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), we carry-out challenging and meaningful work within a collaborative culture to deliver strong investor protection and foster confidence in capital markets.
Evolving financial markets mean new ways of thinking, and every day is an opportunity to learn, innovate and grow professionally in a supportive, stimulating workplace.
The Ontario Securities Commission is an independent Crown agency that regulates Ontario’s capital markets by making rules that have the force of law and by adopting policies that influence the behaviour of capital markets participants.
The OSC exercises its regulatory oversight function through the administration and enforcement of Ontario’s Securities Act and Commodity Futures Act and administration of certain provisions of Ontario’s Business Corporations Act.

Equal Opportunity

The OSC is committed to diversity and providing an inclusive workplace and providing accommodation in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Human Rights Code.
It is our priority to ensure employment opportunities are visible and barrier-free to all under-represented groups including but not limited to, Indigenous, Black and racialized groups, people with disabilities, women and people from the 2SLGBTQI+ community, to achieve an employee demographic profile reflective of the demographic profile of Ontarians.
The OSC is a proud partner with the following organizations: Ascend Canada, BlackNorth Initiative, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, and Pride at Work Canada.
If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know by contacting our confidential inbox HRRecruitment@osc.gov.on.ca.
Visit Accessibility at the OSC to review the OSC’s policies on accessibility and accommodation in the workplace.