Senior Solutions Architect to rebuild risk management systems the serve model development and m[...]

Senior Solutions Architect to rebuild risk management systems for model development and model risk governance teams with one of our major banking clients - 36672

Location Address: Hybrid (1-2x/week on-site on Tuesdays and Thursdays, might change to more days in future) - Toronto

Contract Duration: 9 months (Chance of Extension)

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: MET – Global Risk Management Technology
• The Solution Architect will work with the GRM Engineering team to be responsible for projects to rebuild retail risk management systems that serve model development, model validation, and model risk governance teams in Risk Management in a holistic manner. This role is high-impact, responsible for managing a set of tasks and techniques while acting as a liaison among various stakeholders. The SA needs to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organization and recommend technical/business solutions that enable the future state of risk modeling solutions. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals who embrace change, are passionate about their profession, are flexible, curious, continuous learners, and who want to achieve challenging goals.
• Candidate Value Proposition: Exposure to Model/ML/AI Ops practice with Cloud integration of SaaS vendor platforms.

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
• Build, architect, design, and create a transformation plan to modernize legacy systems to highly distributed global-based systems.
• Review designs from network infrastructure, security, data, or application development perspectives.
• Align solutions to strategic technical and capability roadmaps and identify new shared capabilities and business opportunities.
• Inform various stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Author architectural patterns to help assessment teams improve and develop their processes.
• Help drive the implementation of trusted policies and standards with the help of internal teams such as Security, Infrastructure, Data, etc.
• Challenge the application team’s way of thinking by implementing architectural design principles to improve the bank’s security, resiliency, and technology footprint.
• Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• Socialize with larger audiences using reporting, real-time dashboards, and hosting education sessions.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience in the financial industry.
• Hands-on experience with the risk model lifecycle in the financial industry.
• Excel in persuasive communication and ability to lead and facilitate strategic discussions between multiple teams.
• Experience integrating vendor platforms with internal applications in both on-prem and public cloud hosting. Knowledgeable of network infrastructure, security, and resiliency patterns for solutions with 10TB+ data and complex integrations.
• Knowledge of SAS/SAS Viya vendor platform and integration patterns between GCP and Azure is a strong asset.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Good understanding of risk management function and capital management function.
• Experience architecting a technology solution that will implement the trusted governance framework, policies, and workflows.
• Experience with structured architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems, databases, and technologies.
• Ability to create designs and reference architectures for enterprise.
• Responsible for the implementation of a trusted governance model where architecture assessments are automated based on enterprise standards and policies.
• Proven work experience as a Solution Architect or similar role.
• Previous project management or business SME/architect experience is an asset.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages and logic structures.
• Disciplined in development methodology and familiar with software development technologies and concepts. Practical experience with systems design and specification for large-scale applications.

Best vs Average: A lot of initiative, motivated candidate, and knowledgeable about model lifecycle and model ops.

1st round: MS team/In-person with HM – 60 mins