Solution Architect - Digital Banking Applications

Solution Architect – Digital Banking Applications

Position Description
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to contribute to the design, evolution, and optimization of large-scale digital banking applications.

Working closely with a Senior Solution Architect and architecture leadership, you will collaborate with product, delivery, platform, and technical teams to design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical expertise with architectural thinking and has direct experience with the Fiserv DNA core banking platform.

We are particularly interested in professionals who have designed or integrated large-scale, multi-user transactional systems involving high transaction volumes, concurrent sessions, data synchronization, and secure third-party integrations

Location: Canada, Remote with onsite presence as required

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable digital banking applications.
• Design and support integrations between digital banking applications, Fiserv DNA, and other enterprise or third-party systems.
• Collaborate with business, product, delivery, and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into solution designs and technical specifications.
• Contribute to the design of distributed applications supporting large user populations, concurrent sessions, and high transaction volumes.
• Design and optimize data synchronization, consistency, and integration across multiple applications, services, and channels.
• Support secure API integrations, middleware solutions, and third-party system access.
• Improve system performance, scalability, resilience, availability, and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, participate in design reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Ensure solutions align with security, risk, and compliance requirements, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.
• Contribute to DevOps, automation, cloud-native adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 7–10 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Mandatory: Hands-on experience with the Fiserv DNA core banking platform, including solution architecture, system integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Experience designing or integrating digital banking applications with core banking systems and external platforms.
• Strong experience with .NET, C#, SQL Server, and data-layer architecture.
• Experience designing large-scale, multi-user transactional platforms supporting significant user populations, concurrent sessions, and high transaction volumes.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, middleware, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Experience managing data synchronization and consistency across multiple applications, services, or channels.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native application architecture.
• Familiarity with containerization, runtime platforms, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of secure application design, system hardening, SAST/DAST, scalability, and resilience.
• Experience working in regulated environments with security and compliance obligations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience working within a multi-architect or enterprise architecture team.

Assets

• Experience in digital banking, financial services, payments, or other regulated enterprise platforms.
• Experience with large-scale retail, e-commerce, reservation, or similar transactional platforms.
• Exposure to GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux CD.
• Understanding of mobile application architectures for iOS and Android.
• Knowledge of mobile performance optimization, including caching, network efficiency, and backend performance.
• Experience mentoring technical team members and contributing to architecture best practices.

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $70,000-$140,000. This is an existing vacancy.

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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