As a Solutions Architect Consultant, you will play a key role in defining, designing, and developing the division's technological solutions. You will be responsible for addressing business needs, ensuring the alignment of solutions with the existing architecture and target directions, and producing the required architectural deliverables. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, managers, and members of project teams and squads.
Main
Responsibilities
- Identify and document the
functional capabilities required to meet expressed business needs.
- Determine the applications and
services involved in the solutions and assess their impacts (coexistence,
dependencies, performance, security).
- Develop the IT guidelines
supporting the selected solutions.
- Produce solution architecture
documentation, including coverage of non-functional requirements.
- Describe and simplify the
solutions using architectural diagrams and models (ideally in Archimate).
- Support teams in the detailed
design and integration of solutions.
- Develop transition,
coexistence, conversion, and decommissioning strategies.
- Communicate effectively with
various types of audiences: business, functional, management, scrum master, and
delivery manager.
- Ensure solutions comply with
Desjardins Group's standards, guidelines, and policies.
- Knowledge of modern
architectures: microservices, event-driven, API-first, continuous integration.
- Functional and technical
understanding of application components (services, APIs, modules,
dependencies).
- Ability to challenge or
support design decisions (patterns, anti-patterns, design impacts).
- Understanding of software
quality issues: testability, observability, performance, coupling, application
security.
- Define and enforce best
practices for developing the Guidewire cloud solution.
- Mentor developers and serve as
a resource person for all matters related to the Guidewire suite.
- Act as a key contact.
Requirements
Desired Profile
- The client is seeking a hybrid profile combining solution
architecture and advanced technical expertise on the Guidewire suite, capable
of contributing to both the definition of target solutions and the mentoring of
the developers who implement them.
- The recurring keywords (Archimate, microservices, API-first,
continuous integration, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/CaaS) indicate a role rooted in modern
distributed architectures, rather than a position limited to documenting
architecture files.
- The explicit mention of Gosu and PCF configuration, in
addition to the three modules PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter,
indicates an expectation of direct technical mastery of the platform, not just
remote supervision.
- The role requires the ability to challenge design decisions
and quickly escalate critical issues, pointing towards a senior profile
expected to be on the front line with project teams and managers.
This role should not be confused with a project manager or scrum master, despite the need to communicate with these stakeholders, nor with a pure enterprise architect, since the mandate remains rooted in the solution and its concrete implementation.
Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in application solution architecture
or a related role, including significant project experience
- 5+ years of experience with the Guidewire suite
- Technical proficiency with the Guidewire suite
(PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter), the Gosu language, and PCF page
configuration
- Experience with inter-application integration (APIs, Web
Services, event-driven architecture) and the microservices approach
- Proficiency with deployment concepts and methods on
on-premises and cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CaaS)
- Fluency in spoken and written French, intermediate-advanced
level in English
- Ability to manage priorities in a matrix environment,
communicate with diverse audiences (business, functional, management, scrum
master, delivery manager), and quickly escalate critical issues
DESIRED
- Proficiency with an architecture repository and ArchiMate
notation
- Knowledge of the Guidewire suite APIs
ASSET
- Knowledge of Guidewire's APD (Advanced Product Designer)
- Guidewire Certification (Associate, Specialist, or ACE)
WHAT WE DON'T WANT
- Less than 5 years of hands-on experience with the Guidewire
suite.
- No direct technical configuration experience (Gosu, PCF),
limited to a supervisory role.
- No concrete experience in solution architecture on IT
evolution projects, limited to functional design.
- No experience in cross-application integration or
event-driven architecture.
- Insufficient English for functional communication with
stakeholders outside Quebec.
