Security Architect
$125,500–$148,000 year
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade security architecture for microservices, APIs, and distributed ledger platforms supporting transaction processing, workflow orchestration, and payments. Build highly available, performant solutions adhering to cloud-native design principles and ensure data integrity, security, and auditability across systems. Lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups while participating in system design reviews and code reviews. Provide operational guidance for CI/CD pipeline implementation and deployment automation, leveraging expertise in REST, OAuth, OIDC, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Azure. Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and platform teams to deliver scalable, resilient banking solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline
- 7–10+ years of enterprise software development experience
- Proven experience delivering large-scale mission-critical applications
- Expert knowledge of the technical environment/ tools (e.g., user environment, applications, software, hardware, programming languages and operating systems) in own area
- Experience in financial services, banking, payments, or treasury platforms
- Strong proficiency in RESTful API development
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Design Patterns
- Event-driven architecture
- API security (OAuth2, OIDC)
- PostgreSQL
- Distributed Ledger
- Key Management Systems
- GitHub / Bitbucket
- Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Azure Cloud
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Ability to work independently and drive technical solutions
- Experience collaborating in globally distributed teams
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with wallets, transactions, and workflow orchestration platforms
- Banking workflow automation
- Process orchestration platforms
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