Senior Solutions Architect Digital​/Banking

Final date to receive applications: 11/30/2025

Address: 1200

E. Warrenville Road

Job Family Group:
Technology

As a member of the BMO Digital Architecture, the Senior Solution Architect, primarily

• Leads end-to-end technology solutions and high-level designs for key initiatives in collaboration with other architects and in alignment with bank's target architecture and standards for a business domain like Deposits, Cards, Lending, Channels, etc.
• Drives technology strategy and roadmaps of business functional areas - deposits, cards, payments, operations, customer experience, analytics working with business and technology partners
• Establishes as a technology solution expert in one or more of the banking domain
  s to advise Lead Technology Officers and their business leaders in solving business problems

• Solution architect
  , who works with other architects including enterprise architects, leads with all aspects solution architecture and design of multiple projects in alignment with the bank's target architecture and standards

• Solution Architect with the following experience:
• Previous Development experience (
  Cloud, Dev Ops, Agile
  )
• Experience with services management (
  web services, REST, Web API, ESB
  , message-based) development, integration and deployment
• Enterprise-level Application Architecture
• Strong application security
  /infrastructure, & deployment exposure
• Data placement and data integration background
• Able to relate to end-to-end business processes into solutions with a goal of simplifying the business process and improving UX
• All aspects of solution function/data placement, end to end design & integration oversight
• Multi-vendor integration design including infrastructure experience
• API design API Security
  , digital/mobile architecture experience
• AI, Insights, Automation experience
• Technical facilitator bringing various technology groups and vendors for solution design and execution to meet project timeline but keeping strategic focus
• MUST be able to document solution proposals (e.g., solution options sequence diagrams, conceptual diagrams) to get agreement from Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
• Resolve issues as they arise
• Produce project level and program level technical documentations (solution options, solution architecture, high-level end-to-end design flow) collaborating with other technical leads
• Assists with and contributes to function area-specific target architecture, transition architectures, and technology roadmap
• Leads or assist with new technology evaluation against BMO target architecture and standards to solve business problems
• Ability to learn/internalize existing information to assist several projects effectively and immediately
• Strong written / verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers all the way up to the C level
• Banking solution experience is desirable
• Understands or has application design experience in Cloud (e.g., AWS) technologies

• The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to
  4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (e.g., Channels, Sales/Marketing/CRM, Commercial Lending, Collections)
• 15 years of IT experience with minimum 6 years of hands-on solution architecture experience for enterprise-grade applications

• Hard-core developers for Java or .Net application coding
• DBA, Data modellers
• Project or Program Manager
• Business analyst, Data analyst, System Analyst or System Administrator

• Coordinate cross-team communication and facilitate reviewing of technical issues for the technical governance forums. Lead socialization of the technical decisions with the project team.
• Facilitate and lead resolution of all technical issues on the project/program by establishing strong working relationships with the business, operations and other technology team members
• Identify and communicate risks (business, application, technical) associated with component or application implementation.
• Evaluate multiple solution design options, working with a multi-disciplined team to design integrated solution architecture across application areas and helping the project adhere to Enterprise standards
• Document solutions using bank's standard template
• Document high-level design and hand-off work to next group in the development pipeline

• Help extending existing target architecture and develop transition state solution architecture for customer data
• Drive Digital Architecture for Deposits, or for Retail products (retail lending or credit cards)
• Drive cross-product cross-channel customer experience integration architecture retail or commercial customers
• Drive the platform application architecture of a new loan origination platform
• Drive payment process automation solution in backend payment processing (ACH, Check Processing, Lockbox processing)
• Drive various aspects of Collections solution being part of the core architecture team responsible for enterprise-wide collections…