Senior Solution Architect - Financial Services
Role Overview
We help customers turn technology investment into meaningful progress for their businesses and the people they serve.
Our culture values curiosity, inclusion, accountability and trusted collaboration.
We seek architects who combine sound judgment with hands-on engineering, share what they learn and create an environment where colleagues and customers can challenge ideas openly.
A frontier company is not defined by adopting the newest technology first.
It is defined by the judgment to translate emerging capabilities into secure, reliable and measurable outcomes.
This means framing ambiguous problems, making explicit tradeoffs among cost, reliability and speed, and deciding responsibly with incomplete information.
It also means knowing when not to use AI, controlling scope and establishing what must be true before a solution is ready for release.
ISD’s frontier consulting practice brings industry understanding, solution expertise and engineering discipline together.
We use AI to strengthen how we explore, design and deliver, while keeping people accountable for decisions and quality.
We build early working artifacts, validate them with customers and learn from delivered work rather than self-assessment.
Adoption, change and capability transfer begin at the outset, so progress becomes sustained customer value rather than a successful demonstration alone.
Based in the Greater Toronto Area, the Senior Solution Architect in ISD Canada will lead strategic customer engagements, with a particular focus on financial services.
The role requires fluency in customer workflows, data and risk considerations before selecting products or platforms.
You will partner with executives and customer engineering teams to establish a credible baseline, define success measures and connect architecture decisions to business priorities across the Toronto and Canadian market.
This is both a strategic and a hands-on architecture role.
You will guide multidisciplinary teams, maintain full-stack depth and collaborate with specialists to validate critical design choices in working solutions.
A practical AI Usage Plan will help each significant engagement improve delivery with measured benefits, clear accountability and appropriate guardrails.
The opportunity is to deliver reviewed, tested and operationally ready solutions, help customers adopt them, and create reusable patterns and capabilities that other teams actually use.
Key Skills for This Role
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Additional Accountabilities
Make the Market—shape strategic Toronto/Canada FSI opportunities and add-on scope tied to outcomes.
Drive & Accelerate production cloud solutions responsibly aligned with customer and Microsoft strategy.
Deliver Business and Operational Excellence, including adoption, realized value and customer capability transfer.
Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years managing multiple, complex projects or portfolios.
- 2+ years experience leading blended, multidisciplinary teams.
Technical Skills — Full Stack Coverage Across
- Data & AI
- Azure Data Platform (Azure Synapse, Fabric, Data Factory, Databricks)
- AI & Machine Learning (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Cognitive Services, MLOps)
- Big Data architectures (Lambda, Kappa), Enterprise Data Warehouse, Advanced Analytics
- Application Development
- Modern application architecture, microservices, API-first design
- DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Advanced Security, container platforms
- App modernization, .NET, Java, and open-source software stacks
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Azure IaaS and PaaS services, subscription design, network architecture
- Identity and Access Management (Azure AD, Entra), security architecture
- Private/Hybrid/Public cloud configurations, migrations, and governance
- Security
- Security reviews, threat modeling, Zero Trust architecture
- Credential theft mitigation, compliance, and regulatory considerations in Canada
Leadership & Delivery Capabilities
Demonstrated ability to lead solution delivery as the Lead Architect on complex, multi-team engagements.
AI literacy — actively using AI tooling in day-to-day architecture and delivery work.
Experience writing and executing AI usage plans or equivalent AI integration strategies for customer engagements.
Ability to execute recognized Software Architecture methods, processes, and tools.
Experience applying engineering-grade practices: architecture review boards, design patterns, quality gates, test automation.
Ability to give compelling presentations to executive audiences, linking technical decisions to business outcomes.
Proven ability to build and sustain trusted relationships at the executive level (C-suite, VP, and Board) — engaging as a peer, not just a vendor, and maintaining those relationships across the full engagement lifecycle.
Solution Architecture IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $172,200 - CAD $334,000 per year.
Find additional pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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