Senior Solutions Designer

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Solutions Designer for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier technical architecture and software design leadership capacity, specializing in coordinating the design, development, and enhancement of complex, large-scale, and high-profile technology solutions.

As a principal solutions designer, you will bridge the gap between business requirements, enterprise architects, development teams, and security leads. Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead full SDLC activities—translating functional specifications into low-level design artifacts, guiding microservice and containerized cloud implementations, incorporating healthcare data exchange standards, and ensuring physical application deployments adhere to strict security and data privacy baselines. This position is tailored for a technical design authority who can lead development squads, optimize application performance, and deliver robust software architectures.

Location: Toronto, ON

Assignment Type: Onsite

Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for extension)

Advantages
High-Impact Architecture Leadership: Lead the technical design, development, and enhancement of complex, high-profile enterprise applications.

Modern Cloud & Microservices Stack: Advance expertise utilizing containerization, orchestration, cloud technologies, Quarkus, Spring Framework, Angular, and Node.js.

Healthcare Interoperability Integration: Direct implementations leveraging modern healthcare data exchange standards, specifically Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).

End-to-End Governance & Security: Partner with security architects and privacy SMEs to embed data privacy and security baselines into target deployment architectures.

Responsibilities
Lead technical design initiatives, coordinating the design, development, and enhancement of complex, large-scale technology solutions.

Translate business requirements and functional specifications into detailed low-level application designs, technical models, and low-level development artifacts.

Architect and design cloud-native solutions leveraging containerization, orchestration, and microservices design patterns.

Guide development teams on front-end and back-end stack implementations using JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Angular, Spring Framework, Quarkus, Node.JS, HTML5, and CSS3.

Integrate healthcare data exchange standards, ensuring application architectures conform to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) specifications.

Establish automated build processes and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines within Agile and Azure DevOps environments.

Perform application performance tuning, diagnose technical bottlenecks, and recommend end-to-end performance optimization strategies.

Partner with security architects and privacy SMEs to ensure application designs and physical deployments meet required security baselines and data privacy standards.

Collaborate with enterprise architects to produce consistent object models, data models, interface definitions, and architectural artifacts.

Work alongside infrastructure, deployment, and operational teams to define physical deployment topologies and runbooks.

Oversee solution testing, installation, and post-implementation system monitoring to ensure overall system quality and performance.

Monitor project progress, manage technical risks and issues, and deliver regular status updates to management decision-makers.

Qualifications
Core Requirements & Technical Design Expertise
Technical Design Mastery: Proven experience as a technical design specialist expertly coordinating the design, development, and enhancement of complex, large-scale, high-risk technology solutions.

Cloud & Containerization: Demonstrated experience utilizing cloud-based technologies, microservices architectures, containerization, and orchestration platforms.

Healthcare Data Exchange Standards: Working knowledge and practical experience with healthcare data exchange standards, specifically Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).

Multi-Language & Framework Depth: Hands-on development and design experience in one or more core languages and frameworks, including JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Angular (9+), Angular Material, Spring Framework, Quarkus, Node.JS, HTML5, and CSS3.

Security & Privacy Alignment: Direct experience working with security architects and privacy subject matter experts to ensure application designs and physical deployments meet security controls and data privacy standards.

Agile & CI/CD Pipelines: Experience working in Agile software development environments using Azure DevOps/VSTS and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.

Preferred Experience & Assets
Architecture Artifacts: Experience working with architecture teams to author consistent object, data, and interface models, as well as low-level artifacts for coding teams.

Modeling Tools: Proficiency with MS Office, Visio, and SharePoint for technical diagramming and documentation.

Soft Skills & Leadership Attributes
Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Strong leadership capabilities to guide development teams, review code/designs, and enforce best practices.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Superior written, verbal, and presentation skills to build rapport, facilitate technical design sessions, and communicate complex concepts clearly.

Analytical Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex application issues and optimize system performance.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Solutions Designer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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