Software Developer

Application Solutions Architect

Job Description

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.

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