Solutions Architect

• Full benefits package for full-time employees
• Retirement savings plan
• Exciting, supportive and fun work environment
• Family and friends discounts on travel, tech, food, beverage, and fitness
• Development and training opportunities

• Lead solution architecture for assigned programs and projects, from early discovery through implementation and stabilization.
• Translate business requirements into clear solution designs, including application components, integrations, data flows, security controls, infrastructure needs, and anticipated future requirements.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (e.g., solution overviews, logical designs, integration diagrams, and non-functional requirements).

• Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches that balance value, cost, delivery speed, risk, and operational supportability.
• Identify dependencies, constraints, and architectural risks early, and drive mitigation plans with delivery teams.

• Design integration patterns and interfaces across platforms and vendors, ensuring solutions work cohesively across the environment.
• Collaborate with SMEs to align designs to standards, reduce technical debt, and reuse shared capabilities where possible.

• Ensure solutions meet required controls for cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, disaster recovery, and audit/regulatory obligations.
• Incorporate non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, monitoring, logging, and operational support into solution designs.

• Provide expert hands-on technical guidance to infrastructure and partners during build and deployment to ensure solutions are implemented as intended.
• Lead and/or participate in design reviews, validate key technical deliverables, and support troubleshooting of complex issues during delivery.

• Work with IT operations/support teams to ensure smooth handover: support models, runbooks, monitoring, training, and documentation.
• Ensure solutions are maintainable and supportable, with clear ownership and lifecycle considerations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, senior engineering, or technical lead roles delivering enterprise solutions.
• Experience working with vendors/third parties and evaluating solutions.
• Experience in regulated environments (gaming, hospitality, financial services, or similar) is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end solutions across applications, data, integration, infrastructure (cloud & on-prem), and security.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modern architectural patterns (cloud, hybrid, microservices, integration platforms).
• Strong stakeholder management skills, capable of gaining support from senior tech stakeholders and guiding broader project teams through complex transitions.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on, pragmatic decision-making.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus at all levels of a global organization.
• Infrequent travel to company sites may be necessary.
• Flexibility to work occasional time periods outside standard day hours.

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