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About the Role

Payments Canada is seeking a Senior Solution Architect, Shared Services Architecture to drive the organization's technology vision by creating comprehensive shared services and cloud solution architectures. This role focuses on designing and implementing secure, resilient, and scalable solutions across shared services platforms, public cloud infrastructure, and corporate business functions, primarily using modern SaaS technologies. The architect will ensure designs align with the Enterprise Architecture Framework and technology governance, optimizing the IT landscape and delivering strategic business value.

Responsibilities

Foster trusted relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders to facilitate the development and adoption of technology strategies.
Establish, build, and maintain strategic relationships across internal business lines and external partners to gain buy-in for enterprise and solution architectures and build the reputation of Payments Canada as a center of excellence.
Collaborate with Payments Canada members, user groups, and technical specialist groups to provide advice on shared services, integrations, and cloud architectures.
Facilitate strategic meetings and communicate complex architecture designs to all levels of leadership and stakeholders in a compelling, business-centric manner.
Champion architectural excellence at all levels and divisions of the organization in support of Payments Canada’s goals.
Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise to the broader architectural community, fostering an environment of technical excellence.
Participate in knowledge transfer within the Enterprise Architecture team and across the organization to share solution architecture best practices.
Act as a lead technical contributor across various engagements, providing expert oversight on complex initiatives.
Create and maintain a culture of continuous learning and development to enable the architectural function to continue to mature.
Contribute to the long-term technology vision and enterprise architecture framework, ensuring solution architectures contribute to its realization.
Lead the architectural designs for the shared services and other complex initiatives, ensuring designs mitigate risks and address technical debt.
Establish and enforce enterprise architecture standards, policies, and guidelines, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks.
Produce and maintain strategic architecture artifacts, including system interaction, data flow, and event sequence diagrams.
Lead the development of reusable reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate system delivery.
Develop multi-year architecture roadmaps and business cases for strategic initiatives.
Collaborate with business leaders and external stakeholders to present complex architectural recommendations and strategies in a compelling, business-centric manner.
Ensure architectural controls within all solutions are designed and built using a risk-based approach.
Assess risk and prioritize decisions effectively in time-sensitive situations, especially when making architectural choices.
Ensure compliance with the Payments Canada Enterprise Architecture Framework, Standards, and Tools.
Monitor industry, technology, and market trends (including public cloud evolution, containerization, SaaS integration patterns, SecDevOps and GenAI) to determine their potential impact on Payments Canada.
Discover, evaluate, and recommend technology solutions to drive innovation and ensure future-ready designs.
Collaborate with third-party vendors to deliver resilient and scalable architectures that align with corporate strategies.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related field.
Minimum five (5) years of experience in information systems and progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
Proven track record of developing and implementing strategic IT plans and mission-critical solution architectures.
Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and their practical application.
Eligibility to successfully complete background checks that will be carried out by Payments Canada, including criminal, credit, identity, employment, and education checks.

Skills

Public cloud environments (GCP, Azure or AWS)
Infrastructure modernization
Network engineering
DevOps
Software architecture
Data engineering
Security architecture
GenAI
Evaluating, designing, and integrating enterprise-grade SaaS systems for corporate business functions (HR, Finance, Marketing and Communications)
Financial industry experience (asset)
Bilingualism (English and French) (asset)

Location

Hybrid (remote/office)

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related field

Salary/Compensations

$100,300 target starting rate

Benefits

Flexible, hybrid (remote/office) environment.
Competitive compensation package, including annual variable bonus and defined contribution pension plan with employer matching percentage (if eligible).
Comprehensive health and dental benefit coverage, including mental health coverage, life insurance and a health spending account for you and your dependents (Permanent and temporary employees with contracts 12 months and over).
Paid time off: minimum four weeks paid vacation, sick and personal days, December holiday shutdown and cultural holiday observance days.
26 weeks of paid maternity and parental leave top-up (if eligible)
Rewards and recognition program.
Access to office gym facilities.
Internal and external professional development opportunities.
Fun team and organizational events.
Monthly all staff forums led by our Executive Leadership Team.

About the Company

Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem, making payments easier, smarter and safer for all Canadians.
We own and operate payment systems that process hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payment transactions every business day.
We convene ecosystem participants to discuss their multiple and diverse interests and ideas and to navigate industry-level challenges.
We adhere to a set of values: Inspire trust, build community and enable change.
Our culture fosters authenticity, collaboration, innovation and development.
We empower one another, make meaningful contributions that not only impact the organization, but our country!
We develop and nurture meaningful connections that drive innovation in our ecosystem.

Equal Opportunity

At Payments Canada, we are dedicated to fair, transparent and inclusive hiring.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
Our recruitment process uses automated tools, but not generative AI, to objectively screen and evaluate applications and confirm that a candidate’s qualifications meet job requirements.
It is important to remember that these tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.
Our trained recruitment professionals and hiring managers always make the final hiring decisions.
At Payments Canada, we are committed to making everyone feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.
We will continue to build on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all forms and collectively create an inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are valued.
We are committed to employment equity and actively encourage applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities.
If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation by emailing hrinfo@payments.ca.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity.
Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.