Solution Architect, Investment Technology

16 York St, Toronto, ON M5J 0E6, Canada

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM

OUR COMPANY BACKGROUND & CULTURE

UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario’s university sector, proudly serving over 44,000 members across six universities and eighteen sector organizations. Our purpose is to bring greater retirement peace of mind to the university sector by investing with integrity and serving members with care. As a sector-wide plan designed for growth, our doors are open to all Ontario universities.

UPP is recognized as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2026. Together, we’re a team of progressive thinkers and agile doers operating within a fast-paced culture of collaboration and respect. We believe in bringing smart and capable people together to create, solve, and grow with a clear shared vision and values of integrity, inclusivity, ingenuity, and impact.

Our culture is intentionally welcoming and purposefully rooted in equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDI&R). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.

As a pension plan, UPP approaches investing through a long-term lens to generate and safeguard value. Our commitment to investing responsibly accounts for material risks that impact our investment portfolio to generate sufficient risk-adjusted returns to meet the pension needs of our members.

Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Solution Architect, specialized in the Investment services vertical, with diverse technology and business experience and a proven background of hands-on Architecture and Engineering.

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Architecture and Engineering, the Solution Architect will partner with key Finance and Investment teams to collaboratively engage, model and drive solutions across the organization from intake to delivery. As a technology leader, you will be extremely motivated, hands-on, subscribe to a continuous learning mindset, and apply new business practices and leading technologies to your work.

You also possess deep experience in medium-to-large enterprise-level complex technology environment(s).

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced architect to join a team of high performing professionals to make a great impact.

This role is based in downtown Toronto under a hybrid work policy, allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely and in-office (approximately two days per week in-office).

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Solution Architect will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Define and lead strategic technology initiatives for Financial Services and Investment teams
• Work closely with Investment teams to connect strategic goals to business outcomes through practical and fit-for-purpose architectures and solutions
• Ensure that the solution architectures delivered by projects are fit for purpose and adhere to sound IT practices and to UPP principles and standards
• Design and lead implementation of enterprise solutions for UPP Investment teams
• Design and integrate cloud-centric architectures
• Enable business insights via analytics utilizing robust and scalable cloud platforms (SaaS & PaaS focus)
• Provide innovative approaches and new solutions that are cloud based, secure and right-sized for the organization
• Perform review of technologies through a consistent solution review process for assessing, integrating, and implementing vendor solutions for functional and non-functional requirements
• Perform periodic security controls and compliance reviews of vendors and applications including SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 and CAIQ reports
• Lead solution delivery teams and vendors with overall design direction, advisory and governance practices to minimize complexity and enable effective delivery of business outcome
• Define and manage technology guidelines and practices to accelerate decision making and deliver quality solutions
• Research and understand…