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Alteo is looking for a Solutions Architect for a permanent position based in Montreal.

*** Hybrid: 6 days in the office per month ***

Your responsibility will be to analyze business needs, create scenarios, describe proposed solutions, identify impacts, and perform a preliminary estimate of costs and efforts. You will manage the constant evolution of application fields and demonstrate your leadership skills to business partners, organizational resources, and subcontractors. You will act in compliance with the laws, regulations, procedures, and technical standards governing the organization's mission, while ensuring consistency with the overall systems architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the person responsible for data and analytics solution architecture;
• Actively contribute to the feasibility, design, and implementation phases of various software package development and integration projects, while adhering to industry solution, infrastructure, and software architecture principles;
• Be able to establish and recommend secure, reliable, and high-performance IT solutions that meet business needs;
• Promote the reuse of proven solutions by optimizing the quality of services and operations;
• Act as an expert advisor and content expert in your field and serve as a resource person and coach to senior management and junior staff.
• Actively participate in and lead solution testing and the implementation of cloud environments necessary for system delivery.
• Perform quality assurance of the documentation of architectural alignments proposed as part of the implementation of the IT strategic plan;
• Design technological infrastructures with a focus on functional needs, scalability, overall performance, and security requirements;
• Work with managed service providers to ensure the delivery of a high-performance solution;
• Participate, as needed, in the diagnosis and resolution of complex operational problems;
• Participate in risk and cost/benefit analyses.

Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent;
• 7-10+ years of relevant experience in information technology and solutions architecture;
• Expertise in all principles related to software solutions, software engineering practices, DevOps, and SRE;
• Experience as a solutions architect who has contributed significantly to the feasibility, design, implementation, and delivery phases;
• Excellent analytical and synthesis skills, as well as the ability to make recommendations;
• Demonstrate versatility and autonomy in the daily performance of duties;
• Exercise motivational leadership with stakeholders from different business sectors and multidisciplinary teams;
• Have good listening skills and a solid understanding of business issues;
• Possess expertise in data pipeline development (Spark, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Parquet format);
• Possess expertise in the design, implementation, and operation of relational and non-relational database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB) and ETL/ELT principles;
• Expertise in data load management engines under GCP (BigQuery, Composer, DataProc) & under Azure (Databricks, DataFactory, Synapse/SQL);
• Expertise in more than one object-oriented and scripting programming language (e.g., Python, advanced SQL, Bash, Powershell, C#);
• Expertise in design patterns (i.e., distributed architecture, microservices architecture, API integration, event-driven and streaming architecture, etc.);
• Expertise in software development methods and principles (TDD and code coverage, OWASP, peer review);
• Have in-depth knowledge of AGILE development methods and its fundamental lifecycle principles (CI/CD), automation and industrialization products (GitHub, GHAS, GitOps, SonarQube, ArgoCD, etc.) of the solution delivery chain;
• Experience in the automated deployment of robust multi-cloud solutions in GCP & Azure;
• Experience in deploying application solutions on a load orchestrator and scaling (K8s/AKS/GKE, Docker, Helm);
• Experience in deploying identity solution configurations (IAM/CIAM) for solution client users and internal users contributing to technology solutions;
• Experience in deploying network configurations, security policies, landing zones, firewalls, WAF, vnet, DNS, DDoS, OSI Model);
• Experience deploying cloud tools for FinOps practices;
• Knowledge of privacy laws, IT security rules, and guidelines (an asset).