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About the Role

Partner directly with engineering squads to design solutions, navigate architecture standards, and build with confidence. Contribute to internal automated governance agents, supporting technology evaluation, PR review, and standards enforcement across the organization. This is an individual contributor role focused on influence, expertise, and relationship building.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct architecture guidance to engineering squads, including solution design, trade-off analysis, and pattern selection.
• Assist squads in preparing for ARB and JAD sessions when new technologies or patterns are introduced, pressure-testing designs.
• Contribute directly to agents that power technology evaluation, PR review, standards enforcement, and ARB submission support.
• Translate architecture principles and the Tech Roadmap into actionable guidance for engineers.
• Build working examples of patterns before recommending them to teams.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to understand constraints and tailor architecture guidance.
• Help squads adopt AI-assisted and agentic development practices, establishing patterns, guardrails, and metrics.
• Use the Tech Roadmap and enterprise architecture graph to identify and address technical debt and dependencies.
• Assist teams in establishing automated dependency upgrades, patching, and modernization pipelines.
• Create, curate, and maintain reusable reference architectures and a documented reference code base.

Requirements

• Strong record designing and evolving backend/distributed systems architecture, including data modeling and event-driven design.
• Experience with schema governance, API design, or platform-scale technical standards is ideal.
• Real experience building AI agents, working with LLMs, and applying agentic patterns to production workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption across teams without direct authority.
• Experience thinking of engineers as customers and helping solve their problems.
• Experience defining and evolving technical standards across many teams.
• Demonstrated success introducing AI-based development practices to engineering teams.
• Experience mapping system dependencies and leading modernization or automated-upgrade programs.

Skills

• Agent orchestration
• Observability
• MCP tooling
• AI-based development
• Coding assistants
• Agentic development workflows
• Technical debt management
• Dependency management
• Automated upgrades
• Schema governance
• API design
• Platform-scale technical standards
• LLM observability
• Cross-team schema governance
• Cross-team API governance

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Director

Salary/Compensations

• 225,000 - 275,000 CAD

Benefits

• Dedicated trainings
• Leadership development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Retirement planning programs
• Tuition reimbursement programs
• Comprehensive healthcare offerings
• Family-friendly policies
• Generous global parental leave plan
• Paid volunteer days
• Matched funding for donations
• Opportunities to volunteer in community

About the Company

• Fitch Group is seeking a Director, Solutions Architecture based in our Toronto office, reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect for the Fitch Group line of business you support.
• Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions.
• To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest.
• Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment.
• If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Equal Opportunity

• Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
• We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.