Solution Architecture Advisor

# Solution Architecture AdvisorMontrealHybridArchitecture and Technology GovernanceApplyWith over 30 years of recognized expertise, COFOMO is now a leading Canadian consulting firm specializing in digital and artificial intelligence. Supported by more than 3,000 experts, 10 Centers of Excellence, and 4 offices across the country, we are uniquely positioned to successfully guide our clients through their transformations. Both strategic and tactical, we help organizations across a wide range of industries thrive in today’s rapidly evolving world.## Our promiseHelp our clients succeed and maximize the impact of their transformation initiatives, turning them into powerful drivers of growth and innovation.## Job description**Here's a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you'll have :**
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional business needs and design end-to-end hyperautomation solutions that are composable and aligned with business objectives;
- Define target architectures, principles, design patterns, and integration patterns for solutions primarily based on Microsoft Power Platform;
- Guide the use of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, Microsoft Dataverse, and Copilot Studio based on context, criticality, volume, user experience, and operating requirements;
- Identify andqualify opportunities for process automation, including flow orchestration, RPA, generative AI, and agents;
- Design integration patterns using APIs, standard or custom connectors, events, and Azure services, among others, while promoting decoupling, reuse, and maintainability;
- Establish and evolve Power Platform governance practices, environment strategy, solution standards, deployment, ALM and DevOps mechanisms;
- Integrate security, identity, privacy, data management, traceability, resiliency and compliance requirements by design;
- Act as a trusted advisor, present architectural decisions, participate in architecture reviews and support technical and business teams throughout the solution lifecycle;
- Evaluate newcapabilities in Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot, and intelligent automation technologies, frame proofs of concept, and recommend adoption when they generate measurable value;
- Contribute to the development of standards, accelerators, reusable components, and design templates, and drive their adoption by delivery teams and solution builders.
**The profile you are looking for is as follows:**
- Hold a bachelor's degree in information technology and ten (10) years of relevant experience, or a master's degree in information technology and eight (8) years of relevant experience;
- Have proven experience as a solution architecture consultant in the design of complex, integrated, enterprise-wide solutions;
- Be proficient in Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, and Microsoft Dataverse;
- Demonstrate experience in Power Platform architecture and governance, including environment strategy, roles and responsibilities, data loss prevention policies, connectors, capacity, observability, continuity, versioning, and support;
- Be familiar with ALM and DevOps practices applied to Power Platform, including managed and unmanaged solutions, pipelines, source control, continuous integration and continuous deployment, testing, and promotion across environments;
- Have a good knowledge of Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot as well as generative artificial intelligence and agent approaches, including security, data, supervision and responsible use considerations;
- Have experience in business process automation and RPA and know how to distinguish use cases suitable for low-code development, traditional development, integration, or robotic automation;
- Proficiency in Microsoft Azure services relevant to integration and automation as well as REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, events, and custom connectors;
- Knowledge ofsoftware engineering practices and the various stages of the development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement;
- Knowledge ofcomposable architectures, microservices, event architectures, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements;
- Demonstrate experience with at least one programming or scripting language as well as automation or infrastructure tools such as CLI, API, Terraform, or Ansible;
- Experience in the banking or financial sector and understand the requirements of regulated environments;
- Demonstrate excellent communication, consulting, popularization and influence skills with technical and business interlocutors;
- Demonstrate excellent analytical thinking, autonomy, collaboration and the ability to solve complex problems in a changing environment;
- Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert certification or related Power Platform and Azure certifications (an asset);
- Knowledge ofcenter of excellence, supervised adoption and citizen development approaches (an asset);
- Knowledge ofan enterprise architecture framework such as TOGAF (an asset);
- Experience with mission-critical solutions, high volume, sensitive data, or hybrid integrations (an asset);
- This position requires working primarily in French, while requiring a functional command of English for daily tasks. This English proficiency is essential to understand documentation and ensure professional communication with customers, suppliers and colleagues across Canada.Apply#J-18808-Ljbffr