Solution Architect

Employment Type: Full-time Regular

City: Calgary, AB (YYC)

Posting Open Date: 02/24/2026

Posting Close Date: 03/10/2026 (Please note the posting will close at 11:59pm MST
)

This position requires in-person collaboration up to 5 days per week.
* Please note this arrangement is subject to change with business requirements.*

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The Solution Architect, Data Automation is responsible for the end-to-end solution architecture of digital, data, and automation initiatives within the digital business and data automation domain. The role ensures solutions are fit for purpose, well-designed, and aligned to enterprise architecture standards, strategies, and engineering practices.

This role works closely with business partners, delivery teams, and fellow architects to translate complex requirements into coherent architectural designs, satisfactorily reconcile conflicting concerns of stakeholders and manage tradeoffs, to create the intended business outcomes. The Solution Architect contributes to the maturity of West Jet’s architecture practice by applying standards, promoting sound architectural principles, and mentoring others through collaboration and example.

• Develops and maintains stable, viable solution architectures, ensuring consistency of design and adherence to architectural standards across multiple initiatives
• Owns architectural design for assigned projects or programs, including key decisions, tradeoffs, and documentation
• Translates complex business and technical requirements into architectural designs, models, and implementation guidance
• Balances functional needs, cost, security, service quality, and operational considerations to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions
• Ensures solutions align with enterprise architectures, strategies, policies, and standards, including security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
• Provides risk-based architectural governance, supporting delivery teams while managing changes and deviations appropriately
• Coordinates architecture across multiple teams and stakeholders, ensuring solutions integrate effectively within the broader ecosystem
• Develops, communicates and maintains solution level roadmaps that align with business outcomes and delivery plans
• Acts as a trusted architectural advisor to delivery teams and stakeholders within their domain
• Contributes to architecture standards, patterns, and best practices through participation in architecture forums and communities of practice
• Guides and mentors engineers, analysts, and peers, supporting capability growth and consistent architectural practices

• Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, with 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex solutions across digital, data, and automation domains, including familiarity with LLMs and generative AI technologies
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, with demonstrated experience in balancing business, functional and systems management requirements to create valuable, resilient solutions
• Hands-on experience with Big Data Platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms
• Understanding of prompt engineering, model fine-tuning and deployment strategies
• Knowledge of ethical AI principles and regulatory compliance for AI solutions
• Strong understanding of solution architecture frameworks and modelling approaches, such as TOGAF, SABSA, Archi Mate, and the C4 model
• Broad technical knowledge across application architecture, integration patterns (APIs, services, microservices), cloud platforms, data, and security
• Experience applying automation and digital technologies within enterprise solutions, with the…