Solution Architect

Company : Air-tek

Job Type : Full Time

Toronto

Job Description - Solution Architect

\nWhat you will do

Act as solution designer and technical lead for client implementations working closely with our services teams and with airline staff.
Define technical details of plans to build, integrate, and implement our software.
Define, design, and review development of all technical workstreams, including: ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture, planning and overseeing the successful deployment of infrastructure, planning all integration points, as well as coordinating data management and software deployment as required.
Design and document integration data architecture for each customer environment, including all inbound and outbound data flows, and testing activities that should occur in each environment.
Discuss integration architecture options with clients’ technical teams, advising them on potential approaches given their existing systems and architecture constraints.
Create, compile, modify, and maintain technical documentation for the initial customer implementation and ongoing customer upgrades.
Ensure appropriate cloud services and resources are provisioned based on clients’ needs and our assessment.
Build a thorough understanding of our clients, the airline industry, clients’ challenges and common workflows.
Provide client-specific technical specifications to internal teams, including Product Management and Development as appropriate.
Work with our Delivery Managers on project schedules and scope.
Work directly with Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering teams to continuously improve implementation framework.
Assist leadership and teams to understand and deploy software solutions with clients, through technical briefings and on-site client meetings, with a heavy emphasis on meeting our high standard of responsiveness, support, and expertise.
Assess data and security requirements and build necessary features into solution architecture.
Identify trends and patterns during onboarding and post-go-live state, suggesting improvements in our framework.

About You

At least 5 – 8 years managing complex enterprise technology implementation projects, in solution architect, IT architect, or other relevant roles.
Strong understanding of enterprise software architecture, including cloud services, networking, APIs, security, software release cycles, and other related topics.
Ability to understand, and communicate technical and business requirements, including understanding the respective importance and impact of successfully implementing and achieving client-specific business requirements/models.
Expertise and experience in implementing multi-tenant and public/private cloud-based SaaS solutions.
Expertise and experience in implementing on-site (customer-hosted) applications.
Extensive leadership experience in implementing systems migration and integration to disparate platforms including data migration.
Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Experience with performance and scalability testing of enterprise distributed applications.
Strong analytical skills, customer-centric skills, with a proven track record of rapidly learning a complex and multifaceted platform, as well as a new industry.
Experience with industry-leading transactional messaging and event streaming platforms (e.g., IBM WebSphere MQ, Tibco, Azure Service Bus, Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hub).
Experience with design and implementation of secure network connectivity (e.g., via VPN, MPLS, etc.).
Must be interested in hands-on problem solving.
Excellent written communication on technical topics.
Ability to clearly and authoritatively present technical topics to both business and technical audiences at various levels of detail.
Experience in the airline or travel industry is an asset but is not required.
Proven ability to work as part of a team and effectively influence direction and strategy.
Good organizational skills.