Application Solutions Architect

As a Solutions Architect Consultant, you will play a key role in defining,designing, and developing the division's technological solutions. You will beresponsible for addressing business needs, ensuring the alignment of solutionswith the existing architecture and target directions, and producing therequired architectural deliverables. You will collaborate closely with businessstakeholders, managers, and members of project teams and squads.

MainResponsibilities

• Identify and document thefunctional capabilities required to meet expressed business needs.
  
• Determine the applications andservices involved in the solutions and assess their impacts (coexistence,dependencies, performance, security).
  
• Develop the IT guidelinessupporting the selected solutions.
  
• Produce solution architecturedocumentation, including coverage of non-functional requirements.
  
• Describe and simplify thesolutions using architectural diagrams and models (ideally in Archimate).
  
• Support teams in the detaileddesign and integration of solutions.
  
• Develop transition,coexistence, conversion, and decommissioning strategies.
  
• Communicate effectively withvarious types of audiences: business, functional, management, scrum master, anddelivery manager.
  
• Ensure solutions comply withDesjardins Group's standards, guidelines, and policies.
  
• Knowledge of modernarchitectures: microservices, event-driven, API-first, continuous integration.
  
• Functional and technicalunderstanding of application components (services, APIs, modules,dependencies).
  
• Ability to challenge orsupport design decisions (patterns, anti-patterns, design impacts).
  
• Understanding of softwarequality issues: testability, observability, performance, coupling, applicationsecurity.
  
• Define and enforce bestpractices for developing the Guidewire cloud solution.
  
• Mentor developers and serve asa resource person for all matters related to the Guidewire suite.
  
• Act as a key contact.
  

Requirements

Desired Profile

• The client is seeking a hybrid profile combining solutionarchitecture and advanced technical expertise on the Guidewire suite, capableof contributing to both the definition of target solutions and the mentoring ofthe developers who implement them.
  
• The recurring keywords (Archimate, microservices, API-first,continuous integration, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/CaaS) indicate a role rooted in moderndistributed architectures, rather than a position limited to documentingarchitecture files.
  
• The explicit mention of Gosu and PCF configuration, inaddition to the three modules PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter,indicates an expectation of direct technical mastery of the platform, not justremote supervision.
  
• The role requires the ability to challenge design decisionsand quickly escalate critical issues, pointing towards a senior profileexpected to be on the front line with project teams and managers.
  

This role should not be confused with a project manager orscrum master, despite the need to communicate with these stakeholders, nor witha pure enterprise architect, since the mandate remains rooted in the solutionand its concrete implementation.

Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  
• 8+ years of experience in application solution architectureor a related role, including significant project experience
  
• 5+ years of experience with the Guidewire suite
  
• Technical proficiency with the Guidewire suite(PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter), the Gosu language, and PCF pageconfiguration
  
• Experience with inter-application integration (APIs, WebServices, event-driven architecture) and the microservices approach
  
• Proficiency with deployment concepts and methods onon-premises and cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CaaS)
  
• Fluency in spoken and written French, intermediate-advancedlevel in English
  
• Ability to manage priorities in a matrix environment,communicate with diverse audiences (business, functional, management, scrummaster, delivery manager), and quickly escalate critical issues
  

DESIRED

• Proficiency with an architecture repository and ArchiMatenotation
  
• Knowledge of the Guidewire suite APIs
  

ASSET

• Knowledge of Guidewire's APD (Advanced Product Designer)
  
• Guidewire Certification (Associate, Specialist, or ACE)
  

WHAT WE DON'T WANT

• Less than 5 years of hands-on experience with the Guidewiresuite.
  
• No direct technical configuration experience (Gosu, PCF),limited to a supervisory role.
  
• No concrete experience in solution architecture on ITevolution projects, limited to functional design.
  
• No experience in cross-application integration orevent-driven architecture.
  
• Insufficient English for functional communication withstakeholders outside Quebec.