Myticas Consulting is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect for a long-term consulting engagement supporting a major digital transformation program within the financial services sector. This is a hybrid role requiring some on-site work in Toronto.

Key Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end solution design across application architecture, APIs, data flows, integrations, cloud infrastructure, security, observability, deployment, and production readiness.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the development and delivery lifecycle.

- Lead and mentor development teams through complex technical implementations.

- Partner directly with lead developers on code design, frameworks, integration patterns, error handling, security, data modelling, and non-functional requirements.

- Design, develop, review, and optimize high-performance Node.js applications and microservices on AWS.

- Architect serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and IAM.

- Design scalable and reliable API integrations between internal services, enterprise systems, and third-party platforms.

- Develop event-driven architectures leveraging SNS publish/subscribe and SQS asynchronous messaging patterns.

- Design and optimize DynamoDB schemas, partition strategies, indexes, and query patterns.

- Establish development standards and reusable architecture patterns and conduct critical code and design reviews.

- Troubleshoot complex application, integration, deployment, performance, and production issues.

- Partner with DevOps teams on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environment promotion, monitoring, logging, rollback,



and release readiness.

- Drive performance optimization across Lambda workloads and cloud infrastructure.

- Communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, risks, and delivery impacts to senior business and technology stakeholders.

- Produce technical documentation covering architecture decisions, APIs, integrations, and operational procedures.

- Mentor developers on AWS architecture and Node.js engineering best practices.

- Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to improve SDLC productivity and engineering efficiency.

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of professional software development experience.

- 3+ years of hands-on Node.js experience in production environments.

- Proven experience operating as a Solutions Architect, Technical Architect, Lead Architect, or similar hands-on technical leadership role.

- Strong end-to-end solution architecture experience covering applications, APIs, integrations, data persistence, cloud services, security, observability, deployment, and production support.

- 3+ years of financial services experience, ideally within retail banking or a large regulated financial institution.

- Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, particularly:

- AWS Lambda

- API Gateway

- SQS

- SNS





- DynamoDB

- CloudWatch

- IAM

- Strong Node.js development experience with Express.js, NestJS, or comparable frameworks.

- Solid understanding of REST APIs, API security, integration patterns, and asynchronous/event-driven architecture.

- Deep knowledge of asynchronous JavaScript patterns including promises, async/await, and event-driven programming.

- Strong understanding of NoSQL data modelling and DynamoDB or comparable key-value/document databases.

- Experience conducting code reviews and establishing development and architecture standards.

- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, Jest/Mocha, and modern collaborative development practices.

- Experience using or integrating AI-assisted software development tools, such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.

- Strong senior stakeholder communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical options, trade-offs, risks, and business implications.

- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and unblock technical teams in complex enterprise environments.

Highly Desirable

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Developer certification.

- TypeScript development experience.

- Docker and AWS ECS/Fargate.

- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS SAM.

- CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.

- Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.

- GraphQL architecture and development.

- Multi-region AWS architecture, high availability, and disaster recovery.

- Agile/Scrum delivery experience.

- Experience contributing to Node.js, AWS, or related open-source projects.

📌 Solutions Architect – AWSNode.jsDigital Banking (35654) (Toronto)
🏢 Myticas Consulting
📍 Toronto