Job Specifications
Application Deadline:
12/21/2025
Address:
33 Dundas Street West
Job Family Group:
Technology
Role Description: 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 Requires Skillset:
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, DevOps, 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 (eg, 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 (eg, AWS) technologies Addition Info:
The person will be working on multiple projects (3 to 4) at the same time in different functional areas of the Bank (eg, 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 Not Looking For:
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 Typical Day-to-Day Activities
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 Example Work & Projects:
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 Back End payment processing (ACH, Check Processing, Lockbox processing)
Drive various aspects of Collections solution being part of the core architecture team responsi