Full Stack Engineer

Maplesoft Group is currently seeking an onsite Full Stack Architect / Security Architecture (Banking) for our client. This onsite role will be filled in Toronto, ON.

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description

• Design, describe, and manage solution engineering in relation to capabilities of assigned Journeys and Platforms through the end-to-end lifecycle (i.e., frontend, backend, database and debugging of applications or sites).
• Use knowledge of business acumen and technical expertise to play a lead role in shaping the technical vision to create complex distributed solutions, technical designs, and integrations.
• Contribute to security architecture governance initiatives, by driving new and strategic security principles, roadmaps, and patterns relating to various security domains.

CUSTOMER

• Apply a multi-disciplined expertise in understanding, identifying, and evaluating how architectural risks may compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems and data.
• Elevate focus on maintaining and upholding enterprise security standards, policies, procedures and guidelines as essential guardrails to enterprise architecture and solution design across Infrastructure and Platforms.
• Advise on suitability of technology stacks to define principles / key constraints for solution components; rally the team around these principles to determine security / scalability approach, and impact assessments for future design.
• Drive continual upgrading and grounds the team in assessing practical program concerns to innovate on both server-side and user-side features as technologies / platforms expand to reduce technology debt and build resilient solutions.
• Monitor and report on progress and collaborate broadly with other practitioners, including designers, engineers, and other applicable business stakeholders to ensure the necessary features for the products and applications are developed within the assigned portfolio.
• Support issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Practices, actively driving capability creation; mentoring and training junior colleagues to be adaptive, staying on top of expanding technologies and engineering trends and creating highly visual and functional solutions.
• Perform security architecture reviews and consulting on solutions across the enterprise. Work with solution architects from Journeys and Platforms to provide security architecture solutioning.
• Contribute to security system design and architecture frameworks including technology architecture strategy, policies, and governing standards for security for the assigned domain.
• Apply all of the above to the selection and advancement of cybersecurity technologies, the development of cybersecurity solution architecture, and advising business and technical partners in the Platforms and Journeys on security controls required for their solutions.

SHAREHOLDER

• Set service‑level objectives (SLO) and exercise key decision rights of the FSA role.
• Focus on reliability, scalability, and the development of the architectural infrastructure; including highly complex and scalable systems.
• Develop observability standards to ensure that production systems operate under known conditions and transparently provide these measurements to anticipate when errors or failures can arise.
• Lead interaction with governance and control groups, e.g., regulatory / operational risk, compliance and audit to provide subject‑matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to architectural technology and tools.
• Lead or contribute to cross‑functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject‑matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for significant and complex situations.
• Monitor and report on the status of products / projects and applications within the assigned product, ensuring projects are compliant with technology domain architecture, and design/operate processes to provide ongoing review of in‑progress activity against technology architecture and development standards.
• Foresee architectural issues / gaps and identify emerging industry trends to recommend value‑added architectural improvements that will alleviate technology debt and build resilient solutions.
• Map processes and sub‑processes that bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions.
• Keep track of changes made to code through control systems.
• Collaborate within practices, platforms or journeys comprised of diverse and complementary skills; inspire the team to embrace changes and continually advance collective knowledge of technical tools / trends.
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and elevate non‑standard, high‑risk activities as necessary.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Participate fully as a member of the team; support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues / points of interest.
• Provide thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Keep current on emerging trends / developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross‑training within own team.
• Keep others informed and up‑to‑date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day‑to‑day activities.
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices; may take on the role of Chapter Lead as applicable.
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality.
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area / function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Seasoned individual contributor role with expert knowledge of specific enterprise and/or functional domain(s) and a demonstrated track record working with a broad range of architecture frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures.
• Exceptional collaboration, communication and client‑facing skills.
• Big‑picture thinker, with ability to anticipate architectural gaps and identify emerging trends through both advanced business acumen and highly specialized technical knowledge of Bank and its applications, programming languages, industry best practices, Bank standards, infrastructure and architectural design / solutions.
• Architect assigned to work autonomously on high‑profile, complex and/or high‑risk technology projects with significant impact to the organization.
• Reports to an Architecture Practice Lead / Practice Area Lead.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• 10+ years relevant experience developing a variety of platforms, with recent experience working with cybersecurity solution design, deployment, or operations.
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and/or Test‑Driven Development is an asset (i.e., ability to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests).
• Demonstrated experience with leading technical tools integration in a complex environment.
• Cybersecurity industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CompTIA, etc.) not required, but considered an asset.
• Experience in public cloud security architecture (GCP, Azure, or AWS) preferred.

Maplesoft Group prides itself on its distinct corporate culture and recognizes that success is a direct reflection of our most valuable asset – our people. Therefore, attitude and ambition are key personality traits we seek out, along with skill and aptitude, in potential employees.

Maplesoft Group is committed to having a diverse, representative workforce and continuing to build an inclusive environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. Maplesoft Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants irrespective of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Aboriginal peoples or any other legally protected factors.

All employment decisions are made based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

We are committed to developing inclusive, barrier‑free recruitment and selection processes, and a work environment that supports our diverse workforce. Please let us know if you require accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process. We can be reached at Maplesoft Info at View email address on apply.j-vers.com .

We thank you for your interest in Maplesoft Group and wish to advise you that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting