Solution Architecture Advisor

Here's a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you'll have :

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional business needs and design end-to-end hyperautomation solutions that are composable and aligned with business objectives;
• Define target architectures, principles, design patterns, and integration patterns for solutions primarily based on Microsoft Power Platform;
• Guide the use of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, Microsoft Dataverse, and Copilot Studio based on context, criticality, volume, user experience, and operating requirements;
• Identify and qualify opportunities for process automation, including flow orchestration, RPA, generative AI, and agents;
• Design integration patterns using APIs, standard or custom connectors, events, and Azure services, among others, while promoting decoupling, reuse, and maintainability;
• Establish and evolve Power Platform governance practices, environment strategy, solution standards, deployment, ALM and DevOps mechanisms;
• Integrate security, identity, privacy, data management, traceability, resiliency and compliance requirements by design;
• Act as a trusted advisor, present architectural decisions, participate in architecture reviews and support technical and business teams throughout the solution lifecycle;
• Evaluate new capabilities in Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot, and intelligent automation technologies, frame proofs of concept, and recommend adoption when they generate measurable value;
• Contribute to the development of standards, accelerators, reusable components, and design templates, and drive their adoption by delivery teams and solution builders.

The profile you are looking for is as follows:

• Hold a bachelor's degree in information technology and ten (10) years of relevant experience, or a master's degree in information technology and eight (8) years of relevant experience;
• Have proven experience as a solution architecture consultant in the design of complex, integrated, enterprise-wide solutions;
• Be proficient in Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, and Microsoft Dataverse;
• Demonstrate experience in Power Platform architecture and governance, including environment strategy, roles and responsibilities, data loss prevention policies, connectors, capacity, observability, continuity, versioning, and support;
• Be familiar with ALM and DevOps practices applied to Power Platform, including managed and unmanaged solutions, pipelines, source control, continuous integration and continuous deployment, testing, and promotion across environments;
• Have a good knowledge of Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot as well as generative artificial intelligence and agent approaches, including security, data, supervision and responsible use considerations;
• Have experience in business process automation and RPA and know how to distinguish use cases suitable for low-code development, traditional development, integration, or robotic automation;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Azure services relevant to integration and automation as well as REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, events, and custom connectors;
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and the various stages of the development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement;
• Knowledge of composable architectures, microservices, event architectures, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements;
• Demonstrate experience with at least one programming or scripting language as well as automation or infrastructure tools such as CLI, API, Terraform, or Ansible;
• Experience in the banking or financial sector and understand the requirements of regulated environments;
• Demonstrate excellent communication, consulting, popularization and influence skills with technical and business interlocutors;
• Demonstrate excellent analytical thinking, autonomy, collaboration and the ability to solve complex problems in a changing environment;
• Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification or related Power Platform and Azure certifications (an asset);
• Knowledge of center of excellence, supervised adoption and citizen development approaches (an asset);
• Knowledge of an enterprise architecture framework such as TOGAF (an asset);
• Experience with mission-critical solutions, high volume, sensitive data, or hybrid integrations (an asset);
• This position requires working primarily in French, while requiring a functional command of English for daily tasks. This English proficiency is essential to understand documentation and ensure professional communication with customers, suppliers and colleagues across Canada.