We’re looking for a passionate, self-motivated, experienced Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team.
Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture, this role has an enterprise-level span, including Pollard Digital Solutions with customers worldwide and product engineering teams in Canada, Iceland, Serbia and the UK. The Solution Architect works with business stakeholders, product managers, engineering, and technology teams to drive the development of solution architectures for Pollard Banknote’s world-class lottery platform, products and gaming experiences. This includes a mix of business and software architecture, leveraging advanced web technologies and cloud services in a modern product delivery organization.
Who We Are
At Pollard Banknote Limited, we've been a leader in instant lottery ticket manufacturing and services for over a century, delivering innovation and quality. Our diverse, talented team drives creativity and collaboration. Alongside our traditional products, we lead in digital lottery solutions, enhancing player engagement with cutting-edge technology. Join us in impacting millions of lives with exciting lottery experiences and help shape the future of gaming!
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Profit sharing program – every role plays a part in our success!
- Health & Extended Benefits
- Opportunities for professional development
- On-Site Cafeteria & Outdoor Patio
- On Site Gym
- A variety of committee-driven employee engagement activities
- Free Parking
- We are one of Manitoba’s Top Employers for 2023
What You'll Do
- Lead the architecture development process for complex, cross-domain solutions supporting our customer implementations, platform capabilities and shared services.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs, strategies and goals.
- Work collaboratively with an architecture domain and technology architects to focus on the alignment of all aspects of architecture, inclusive of business, application, information and cloud technologies.
- Research, analyze and translate stakeholder requirements into architectural needs – both functional and non-functional.
- Perform research and architecture assessments on third-party solutions, and platform components.
- Facilitate well-reasoned and efficient architecture decision-making and recommendations.
- Improve the understandability of complex problem spaces with new mental models and architecture diagrams.
- Provide expertise in some architectural domains, based on your unique experience and skillsets.
- Support product development teams with architecture research, capability roadmaps, assessments and recommendations.
- Support business development activities through customer needs analysis, solution architecture, and the development of functional and non-functional architectural specifications.
Who You Are
- A strong visual communicator with exceptional diagramming skills.
- You have a forward-thinking, innovative, yet pragmatic approach to architecting solutions.
- You have an equal part focus on driving business value and quality architecture.
- You are a professional and collaborative team player that views solution architecture as an enabler – servant leadership focused on enabling teams to deliver their best.
What You'll Bring
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience working in a variety of solution domains. For example: identity and access management, content management, personalization, transactional processing, systems integration, data warehousing, and analytics.
- Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise and domain-specific solutions within incremental delivery and agile methods.
- Strong analytical skills, with an ability to translate complex multi-faceted business challenges into cohesive architectural visions, strategies and plans.
- Ability to share knowledge through patterns and best practices, emphasizing modern web and cloud platform technologies, micro-services architectures and domain-driven design.
- Experience architecting cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS or equivalent platforms.
- Solid understanding of non-functional requirements and architectural strategies for high performance, reliability, security and compliance.
- Excellent written, and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Lightweight project management skills backed by strong personal and team organizational abilities.
- Experience in the lottery and gaming industry is certainly an asset, but not required.
Pollard Banknote Limited is an equal opportunity employer, committed to promoting and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.
Employment is contingent upon a satisfactory response from a Criminal Record Search.
