I.t Solution Architect

Are you looking to join a world-class manufacturing organization? At Husky TechnologiesTM, we strive to be the best with a strong foundation built on innovation, collaboration and a unique culture with great people. If you are attracted to bold goals, believe in uncompromising honesty, support mutual respect, care about environmental responsibility, have a passion for excellence and a desire to make a positive contribution - we want you to join the Husky TechnologiesTM team

**What we offer**
- Excellent benefits package and retirement savings plans as well as life insurance program
- Competitive vacation policy promoting work-life balance
- Challenging career opportunities and growth
- Opportunity to work, innovate and collaborate with passionate people who drive change
- Amazing team - we are the best in the world at what we do

**Husky Technologies**TM** Campus**
- Large, beautiful campus with clean, state-of-the-art air-conditioned offices and manufacturing facilities with high air quality, climate control and outstanding safety records
- Onsite fitness and wellness center
- Organized out
- and indoor sports activities such as beach volleyball, running teams, and bicycle teams
- Access to onsite medical practitioners
- Onsite cafeterias with fresh and healthy meal options
- Free parking

This position is part of Husky’s Architecture team. A key objective of this team is enabling the alignment to and full support of corporate digital transformation initiatives by providing future state planning and road mapping, governance and standard setting, concept development, solution design and facilitation.

The Solution Architect serves as a connecting piece between enterprise architecture and technical architecture. The Solution Architect designs and delivers solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and contributes to advancing the architecture toward the target state.

**Responsibilities**:
Solution Design and Architecture
- Create architectural solutions that address business needs, including both high-level and detailed designs.
- Create architectural documentation and artifacts following established methodologies, standards and patterns.
- Evaluate design approaches, make architectural recommendations, and implement improvements to testing strategies.
- Prepare and present solution architecture documentation and artifacts to the architecture review board (ARB).

Technical Leadership
- Provide direction and support to development teams during the project lifecycle to ensure alignment with the architectural vision.
- Work closely with lead developers to ensure that the architectural design is refined into an appropriate technical design.
- Promote and enforce best practices in design, coding, and performance.

Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with business leaders, project managers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure solutions meet business objectives and requirements.
- Clearly communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Integration Management
- Design and manage the integration of various systems, ensuring seamless interaction and interoperability.
- Oversee the development of APIs and integration points between systems.

Risk Management
- Proactively identify potential risks related to architecture and technology.
- Develop strategies to mitigate risks and ensure the robustness and reliability of the solutions.

Quality Assurance
- Conduct code and design reviews to ensure adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
- Ensure rigorous testing and validation of solutions to meet quality standards.
- Perform architectural reviews/audits on implemented solutions.
- Debug and create performance analysis on implemented solutions.

Architecture Practice
- Collaborate with the architecture community of practice to ensure that their solutions align with target architectures and technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate closely with other architects to create and maintain reusable architecture artifacts and solution assets in a central architecture repository (e.g. principles, reference architectures, patterns).

**Requirements**:
Critical Capabilities
- Good understanding of business architecture, capabilities and processes.
- Good knowledge of architecture design and best practices.
- Proficiency in architecture frameworks, modeling standards and techniques (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, UML).
- Good understanding of issues related to cloud, data, and interoperability.
- Knowledge of integration patterns and frameworks.
- Knowledgeable about all phases of the software development life cycle and solution delivery for web, client-server, and cloud-based solutions.
- Experience in API design and security practices.
- Experience architecting cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure is an asset.
- Demonstrated knowledge of DevSecOps processes and tool chains and processes.
- Excellent analytical