Solutions Architect

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and one of North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $35,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our mission to provide everyday Canadians the chance for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 1900 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

We are seeking a Solutions Architect reporting directly to the Vice President, Enterprise Systems! The successful candidate will be responsible for designing system solutions and application roadmaps & help establish and maintain development and architectural best practices. If you have have extensive hands on experience of leading system analysis & design teams in an enterprise environment, this is the perfect growth role for you!

Responsibilities:

• Create various design and technology solutions and technology roadmaps
• Ensure programs and projects are envisioned, designed, developed, and implemented across the enterprise meeting business needs while adhering to technology guidelines
• Interface with development teams and other technical/functional architects to ensure that most efficient solutions are designed
• Conduct design & code reviews of various software components to ensure they are designed to meet non-functional requirements such as ease of use, maintainability, re-usability, performance, scalability and extensibility.
• Handle simultaneous application development & solution design activities for multiple projects
• Ability to create detailed & low-level solution design artifacts
• Understand business requirements and application development risks and goals; contribute to project team meetings; troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms
• Ability to work with on shore and off shore teams
• Monitor and support the systems that manage business critical processes
• Define Functional, System and Architectural requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent, required.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated system design and architecture experience is required
• Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise IT processes and service management(ITIL)
• Experience in application analysis and design (OOA/D, Design Patterns, and SOA) is required.
• Minimum of 5 years hands on development experience
• Working knowledge of prevalent web technologies and Internet protocols such as HTML5, CSS, XML, JSON, REST, JQuery, HTTP, etc. is preferred
• Comfortable navigating & maintaining source code repositories (like SVN or Git)
• Experience developing commercial applications in Java, Python or related programming languages
• Experience designing high performance, high availability systems.
• Proficiency in relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.
• Knowledge of Salesforce and integrations between Salesforce and other systems is an asset

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment:

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire. 

We thank all interested applicants; however, we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

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