6 System Architecture jobs in Canada

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Job Description

Role

• Evaluate new technology frameworks, tools, and infrastructure via POCs and technical research
• Apply best of breed technology to solve mission critical business problems
• Provide architectural leadership across core products within the business unit and beyond
• Serve as a mentor to other architects and developers in order promote the architecture profile and expand the organization’s knowledge organically
• Promote the vision of the Chief Technology Officer. Determine multiple paths forward presenting pros and cons and do what is necessary to knock down barriers and obstacles to the vision and strategy
  

Basic Skills For Consideration

• Apache Kafka – Candidate should have a minimum of 2 years of Apache Kafka experience and a proven track record of applying it to complex enterprise systems. This position requires a practical hands on knowledge of the physical infrastructure, configurations as they pertain to topics and partitions, and high confidence relative to consumer design.
• Java Programming Skills – Candidate should have a mastery of the Java programming language and a proven track record of applying it to complex enterprise systems.
• RESTful Service Development – Candidate should have extensive experience designing, developing, and testing API via automation frameworks.
• Analytical Skills – Candidate should be able to quickly translate business requirements into multiple technical design options allowing stakeholders to weigh pros and cons.
• Communication Skills – Candidate must be able to convey their ideas to others via PowerPoint, Excel, etc. They must also be comfortable speaking in front of large teams, incorporating their ideas, and building consensus.
  

Preferred Skills, Experience, And Education

• Object Store Experience – Experience working with object stores such as Mongo, Redis is a major plus.
• Spring Framework – Experience using the Spring framework and ecosystem is a major plus.
• Containerization – Experience utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, Pivotal, etc. is a major plus.
• Agile – It is preferred that the candidate have experience working in an agile environment. The ability to think incrementally and releasing software in an evolving manner is a very important skill.
• Experience in SDLC including associated deployment methodologies, QA processes, and performance tuning efforts.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience delivering enterprise customer facing solutions.
• 6+ years of indirect or direct technical leadership.
• Experience effectively managing multiple technology projects simultaneously.
• Capable of exercising extreme discretion and independent judgment.
  

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
**About Enterprise Architecture:**
Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company's technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:
1. **Architecture as Code** : this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
2. **Architecture as Design** : this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
3. **Governance** : this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
4. **Colleague Enablement:** this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Ensures Technology Platform solutions are aligned with the corresponding Platform Blueprint and Company Platform roadmaps; may be called on to be the Technology Platform Single Point of Contact (SPOC).
+ Focuses on cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities.
+ Ensures the engineered environment meets the specification in terms of business requirements, application design and infrastructure requirements, i.e. accountable for the platform integration performance and efficiency.
+ Performs hands-on solution architecture design work and actively participates in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.
+ Provides input and functional direction to the Technology Platform's API strategy and implementation roadmap.
+ Works with Business and Data Architects to align and incorporate their input into platform solutions.
+ Responsible for coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture, providing advice, mentorship and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
+ Identifies technical solutions and business process improvements in support of the business and IT strategic direction
+ Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies.
+ Interacts with business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that may affect business solution delivery.
+ Provides architectural governance, reviewing projects to ensure alignment to architectural and technical strategy by driving Technology Platform to Platform Architecture Review (PAR) approval level.
+ Advises product delivery resources on the best time to engage dependent teams (for example, database engineering teams).
+ Ensures accurate asset information is documented and recorded in the appropriate repositories for the assigned portfolio.
**Qualifications:**
+ 4-5 years of hands-on programming experience meaningful to the assigned Technology Platform in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
+ Advanced hands-on experience with application solution architecture design and end-toend software development of complex distributed (multi-tiered) systems.
+ Prior experience in multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of architectural concepts (business, data, technical and solution) and track record of implementation.
+ Extensive experience using a systems analysis and design methodology that is applicable to an agile product environment.
+ Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
+ Prior hands-on experience with one or more core technology stack components within the assigned portfolio, such as relevant frameworks and/or programming languages.
+ Advanced to authoritative level knowledge and understanding of solution architecture, complex application systems design and platform integration via modern approaches (i.e. RESTful APIs).
+ Proven understanding of relevant supporting architecture domains required to align and deliver solutions (business, information, application, technical, etc.).
+ Ability to perform system design reviews to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and alignment to strategic platform roadmaps.
+ Channel-specific solution architecture skills as required by the assigned platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media.
+ Advanced skills with Open Source components, frameworks and complex systems integration.
+ Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization techniques.
+ Able to participate in the prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as a leader in the underlying architecture.
+ Experienced level understanding of relevant SDLC methodologies, practices and compliance policies/procedures
+ Deep business capability domain knowledge relative to the assigned portfolio.
+ Able to acquire results with an emphasis on reducing cycle time and growing the speed to market of new products.
+ Excellent interpersonal skills (verbal and written), as well as effective consultative and influential leadership skills.
+ Well versed in current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines.
+ Strong business insight with the ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
American Express is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment, regardless of that person's age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, colour, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, family status, pregnancy, disability, record of offences, social condition or origin, political beliefs, association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the "Prohibited Grounds"). If you have a disability and need accommodation, please speak with the Recruiter for more information.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** Canada-Ontario-Toronto
**Schedule** Full-time
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Job Description

Durée du contrat prévue de 3 à 5 ans.
Date d'entrée en fonction prévue entre Q1 et Q3 2025.
Rôle hybride.

Les heures de travail sont normalement comprises entre 8 h et 17 h, du lundi au vendredi (35h par semaine), mais peuvent être étendues lors de certains projets.

1. Comprendre les exigences d’affaires et mettre en valeur les exigences d’architecture et de sécurité,

2. Produire des schémas d’architecture logicielle générale et détaillée incluant le volet intégration,

3. Produire des architectures générales et détaillées d’infrastructures technologiques pour divers modes de déploiements (sur site, infonuagique ou hybride),

4. Collaborer à l’évaluation des solutions proposer des scénarios de solutions, identifier les risques, les bénéfices et les ROI (avantprojet),

5. Planifier, concevoir et coordonner l’élaboration, l’installation, l’intégration et l’exploitation des systèmes assistés par ordinateur y compris des applications mobiles,

6. Participer à la catégorisation des systèmes d’information,

7. Élaborer une stratégie de transition à la sortie et l’intégration de données aux systèmes cibles.

8. Élaborer des procédures d’entretien pour les systèmes d’exploitation, les environnements de communication et les logiciels d’application.

Exigences

• Minimum de 15 ans d’expérience professionnelle dans les technologies de l’information, dont 10 ans dans un rôle avec des responsabilités similaires.
• Expert de l'Environnement Microsoft ou Linux Azure
• Détenir un diplôme universitaire de premier cycle (BAC) en technologie de l’information ou en administration des affaires ou son équivalent.
• Français (écrit et parlé) de niveau professionnel.
• Capacité de passer une évaluation des antécédents judiciaires.
• Capacité de se déplacer dans la région de la ville de Québec.

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Job Description

About the Company:
Our client is a company building the world's highest- performance pure digital AI inference chip.
They are seeking a Software Architect to lead their software efforts and advance the software stack that includes ML frameworks, compilers, libraries, and runtime. As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing software that interacts with their chip, collaborating with hardware and software engineers, and optimizing software for highly parallel architectures to maximize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Advance the state of the art in compiler and runtime technology for delivering high-performance acceleration of AI workloads across a variety of neural network architectures.
• Research and design new software and hardware AI solutions, involving simulators, optimizing compilers, code generators, and runtime execution frameworks for deep learning accelerators.
• Evaluate various trade-offs of different parallelization strategies such as performance, power, energy, and memory consumption.
• Enhance AI software tools to support the latest and greatest DNNs emerging from the research community and industry.
• Keep up with the fast-paced development happening in the industry and academia to continuously enhance our products.
• Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to develop the next generation of deep learning software.
• Collaborate with architects and hardware engineers to co-design future accelerators.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience developing software for a variety of highly parallel architectures.
• Previous roles include experience with optimizing algorithms for hardware acceleration machine learning accelerators, spatial architectures, or GPUs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex issues with a high level of ambiguity.
• Understanding of Deep Learning fundamentals.
• Strong development skills in C/C++, Python.
• Superb soft skills: ability to work efficiently and effectively in a group environment, and influence a cross-functional team without having direct managerial authority.
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree; preferably MS or PhD.
• Driven and self-directed.

Perks:

• 20 vacation days
• Strong health and extended health benefits
• Unlimited sick days
• Stock options

Please apply even if you don't check all the boxes. We are an inclusive and diverse company and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Job Description

Job Description

About the Company:
Our client is a company building the world's highest- performance pure digital AI inference chip.
They are seeking a Software Architect to lead their software efforts and advance the software stack that includes ML frameworks, compilers, libraries, and runtime. As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing software that interacts with their chip, collaborating with hardware and software engineers, and optimizing software for highly parallel architectures to maximize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Advance the state of the art in compiler and runtime technology for delivering high-performance acceleration of AI workloads across a variety of neural network architectures.
• Research and design new software and hardware AI solutions, involving simulators, optimizing compilers, code generators, and runtime execution frameworks for deep learning accelerators.
• Evaluate various trade-offs of different parallelization strategies such as performance, power, energy, and memory consumption.
• Enhance AI software tools to support the latest and greatest DNNs emerging from the research community and industry.
• Keep up with the fast-paced development happening in the industry and academia to continuously enhance our products.
• Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to develop the next generation of deep learning software.
• Collaborate with architects and hardware engineers to co-design future accelerators.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience developing software for a variety of highly parallel architectures.
• Previous roles include experience with optimizing algorithms for hardware acceleration machine learning accelerators, spatial architectures, or GPUs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex issues with a high level of ambiguity.
• Understanding of Deep Learning fundamentals.
• Strong development skills in C/C++, Python.
• Superb soft skills: ability to work efficiently and effectively in a group environment, and influence a cross-functional team without having direct managerial authority.
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree; preferably MS or PhD.
• Driven and self-directed.

Perks:

• 20 vacation days
• Strong health and extended health benefits
• Unlimited sick days
• Stock options

Please apply even if you don't check all the boxes. We are an inclusive and diverse company and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.