.NET Technical Architect w/ SSIS

Role: .NET Technical Architect w/ SSIS

Location: Toronto, NS (Remote)

Type: Contract

Position General Duties and Tasks:

Once You Are Here, You Will:

• Partner with and become a knowledge expert across the organization to solve complex business problems, and form and test hypotheses using a wide array of skills
• Provide a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and determining the platform and products underpinning technology components based on those needs
• Architect platform and product solutions that align with Client engineering or delivery capabilities, which include but are not limited to: DevOps, Full Stack (.NET or Java), Front-End Frameworks (React, Vue, React-Native, Angular, etc.), AI and Data Analytics, Security
• Assess and recommend cloud provider services (AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.)
• Gather and review business (use case / user experience) objectives and interpretation into technical requirements

• Evaluate and recommend technical products (SaaS Solutions, Cloud Provider Services) and communication of best practices for those tools and activities to improve effectiveness and quality
• Identify delivery risk due to integration and definition of technical architecture or spikes, backlog to mitigate such risks
• Define and prioritize product non-functional requirements
• Capture and communicate investment costs (one-time, ongoing) for technology products and services
• Organize tasks and resources to complete work and meet deadlines according to established departmental procedures.
• Collaborate closely with Client practice area leadership during strategy and consulting engagements
• Assist developers in application architecture and resolving technical issues with integration architecture or operations architecture
• Align with team DevOps leadership on technology and tools for delivery
• Provide delivery support in the design, deployment of the product/solution architecture
• Engage and collaborate with client Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Review Boards and Delivery Organizations to align technology recommendations to enterprise standards

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing large scale platforms and products that contain a variety of technology products in integration architecture, development architecture, execution architecture (infrastructure, application, data) and operations architecture
• 5+ years experience with .Net, C#, SQL Server, SSIS, Agile Development, Secure Applications Development
• 5+ years experience working in public cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in EXT JS, Angular, Blazer, Performance Tuning SQL

• Experience in database technologies and information/data architecture
• Experience working in public cloud environments like AWS and understanding tools/techniques for data ingestion and analytics such as Glue, Kinesis, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, Postgres
• Experience in DevOps, using continuous integration and continuous development (we use Jenkins, Nexus, Git), automation of testing data and transformations, and cloud-native designs and tools, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with decoupled architectures, realtime or near-realtime event/data streaming, enterprise integration and common messaging patterns, as well as workflow management technologies such as Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban, Luigi, etc.

• Experience implementing monitoring, quality assurance, data validation processes in a relational and big data environment (metrics-driven reliability and performance)
• BS or MS degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, physics, math, engineering, or economics. Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for the minimum education requirement
• Ability to constructively resolve conflict, manage expectations for competing priorities, and drive towards business goals; providing leadership in product delivery teams
• Deep understanding in one domain that aligns to Client practice areas (Front-End Design, [LJ1] DevOps (DevSecOps), Security, .NET, Java, Operations, Cloud Services, etc.)
• Ability to interpret business requirements to formulate technical solutions and to decide among competing technical solutions
• Broad experience in executing technology recommendations across the landscape of platform and services (infrastructure, development and test, application, data, security, operations)
• Expertise in security best practices, especially in a cloud or hybrid setting, including data access controls and tools, auditing, encryption/securing data at rest and in transit, privacy/anonymization constraints, etc.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

Ideal Mindset:

• Lifelong Learner. You are always seeking to improve your technical and nontechnical skills.
• Servant leader and Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Communicator. You know how to communicate your design ideas to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, prioritizing critical information and leaving out extraneous details.
• Partner. You understand the transformation journey of clients in terms of their strategic objectives, business service offerings, and how IT investments support them.